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In a Feb. 11 column, "The Conscience of a Corporation," Bill Keller wrote about business lawsuits against Obamacare's mandate that companies cover birth control, including abortion pills, in their insurance plans. He questioned the idea that corporations have a conscience.
A corporation is simply a group of people acting together. The Supreme Court has ruled many times that corporations can exercise religion. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, protects "any" exercise of religion. That protection applies when families earn a living in business.
There is no "right" to force religious people to pay for other people's abortions, contraception and sexual choices. The abortion pill mandate coerces religious employers, but those employers aren't asking to coerce anyone.
All Americans, not just churches, are guaranteed freedom of religion in their daily lives. It is a terrible idea to expunge religion and ethics from business on the theory that businesses can care only about profit.
MATT BOWMAN
Washington, Feb. 13, 2013
The writer, senior legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, is lead counsel for several plaintiffs that have obtained injunctions against the mandate.
To the Editor:
It's a bit frightening to consider the broader implications of Bill Keller's column. If the Supreme Court finds favor with David Green's argument — that as an evangelical Christian he shouldn't have to provide coverage for contraceptives to his employees — we're all in deep trouble.
What would stop a chief executive who follows Christian Science from refusing all medical insurance coverage for any employee, as it contradicts his basic religious principles? What would prevent a C.E.O. who belongs to the Church of Scientology, which has demonized professional mental health care, from refusing coverage for all mental health care? This road is better not taken, as this is just the short list.
PAUL EPSTEIN
Fitchburg, Mass., Feb. 11, 2013
The writer is a psychiatrist.
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