The Affordable Care Act requires most U.S. corporations to cover contraception as part of the insurance provided to their employees. Several corporations challenged this requirement, claiming it violated their rights to the free exercise of religion protected either by the First Amendment or by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.
In 2014 the Supreme Court held that privately held corporations (i.e. with just a few owners) must be exempted from this requirement if their owners had religious objections to birth control. (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.) 573 U.S. 682 (2014)
Mercifully, the Supreme Court avoided deciding the ridiculous question whether a private corporation, as distinguished from a human individual, can even have religious rights. Instead, it based its decision on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, and spoke only of the religious rights of the small number of people who owned the closely held corporations.
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