Sometimes Nuns Need Contraceptives, Too

The Little Sisters of the Poor were the perfect plaintiffs. When religious legal groups were looking to challenge President Barack Obama's signature law, the Affordable Care Act, and its mandate that employers' insurance plans cover contraception for free, they turned to the order of elderly nuns to help make the case that the law was unconstitutional. The sisters, a group of humble, chaste—not to mention old—women who had dedicated their lives to serving the elderly, were the ideal foil to ...