“What the rule ultimately says, is that, given how widely available these products already are, there is simply no need for the government to force unwilling religious groups who serve the poor to provide them or to pay massive fines that would shut down these types of ministries,” said Mark Rienzi, senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a public interest group that represents the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), the Register’s parent company, and other Catholic and Christian nonprofits that have filed legal challenges to the federal contraception mandate.
