Wheaton College has announced that it will no longer provide health insurance to students. The decision by the Evangelical Protestant institution in the Chicago area was framed as a stand against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's mandate that insurance policies cover birth control.
Currently, the college provides insurance for a quarter of its 3,000 students, reports the Chicago Tribune. The college will not end the coverage it provides to its employees.
Wheaton has been one of a number of Christian organizations or Christian-run businesses, most notably retail giant Hobby Lobby, that have argued that the contraception mandate violates freedom of conscience. Although the college, like many Protestant institutions, does not object to all forms of birth control, it rejects certain types of contraception that it considers to be abortion, such as the morning-after-pill and intrauterine devices.
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