A North Texas federal judge has ruled in favor of religious groups that objected to being forced to pay for certain AIDS drugs and contraceptives.
The ruling came down Wednesday in Fort Worth. The judge ruled that mandates under Obamacare that private insurance plans cover drugs that prevent HIV at no cost to patients violate the Constitution and federal law.
The lawsuit was filed in 2020 by eight people and two companies, all in Texas. They argued the HIV preventive drugs requirement and the free coverage for contraceptives and HPV vaccines requires business owners to pay for services that, as they put it in legal docutments, "encourage homosexual behavior, prostitution, sexual promiscuity and intravenous drug use" despite the employers' religious beliefs.
Most legal experts assume the Biden administration will appeal.
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