Sotomayor delays health law’s birth control mandate

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has blocked implementation of portions of President Obama´s health care law that would have forced some religion-affiliated organizations to provide health insurance for employees that includes birth control. ( RON CORTES / Staff Photographer ).

A Supreme Court justice has blocked implementation of portions of President Obama’s health care law that would have forced some religion-affiliated organizations to provide health insurance for employees that includes birth control.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s decision came Tuesday night after a different effort by Catholic-affiliated groups from around the nation. Those groups rushed to the federal courts to stop Wednesday’s start of portions of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

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