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Birth Control Ruling Opposed by Oklahoma Christian Colleges Appealed

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DENVER (AP) — An order of nuns wants the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling letting their employees receive birth control from a third party under the health care law.

An appeals court found last week that the law accommodates religious nonprofits by letting them seek an exemption.

But attorneys for the Little Sisters of the Poor and four Oklahoma Christian colleges say arranging for someone else to provide contraceptives amounts to a permission slip. A lawyer representing the nuns says they "consider it immoral to help the government distribute these drugs."

If the justices take up the case it would be heard and decided during the 2016 presidential campaign.