Quasi-Religious Nonprofits and Healthcare on Trial?

Skeptical of desperate assurances, my eyebrows raised when I received an e-mail from my alma mater last week, Notre Dame. The university's president informed that the school, along with forty-three Catholic organizations, had filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury regarding the healthcare mandate. The suit challenges the mandate's requirement that employers "provide in their insurance plans abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives and sterilizations, which are contrary to Catholic teaching." And then, the jaw-dropping sentence: "Let me say very clearly what this lawsuit is not about: it is not about preventing women from having access to contraception, nor even about preventing the Government from providing such services."