Supreme Court takes up case claiming Obamacare promotes “homosexual behavior”

Truvada for PrEP, an HIV antiretroviral drug
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The Supreme Court on Friday announced it will take up a case that imperils a core tenet of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — preventative care. This tenet requires insurance providers to cover pre-exposure prophylactics (PrEP), medications that can greatly reduce HIV transmission, as well as potentially hundreds of other preventive services, among them cancer screenings and heart statins.

The case was originally brought by a group of individuals and a Texas business, Braidwood Management, who sued over the mandates because the company had moral objections to covering PrEP and screenings for sexually transmitted diseases and other treatments that they believe promote “homosexual behavior.”

Braidwood is a for-profit, closely held management organization owned by a trust with Dr. Steven F. Hotze, a religious Christian, as the sole trustee and beneficiary, according to KFF, the health policy research group.

Braidwood is represented by Gene Hamilton, a former Justice Department official in the first Trump administration, who now leads…

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