Elizabeth Sepper is a health law scholar at Washington University in St. Louis whose work explores the interaction of morality, professional ethics, and law in medicine.
Here are her recent comments about the contraception mandate debate (VIDEO available):
Contraception mandate debate leads to worrisome ‘corporate conscience’ concept, law professor warns
The controversy and legal battles surrounding the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act have led to a new – and worrisome – legal concept: the idea of a “corporate conscience,” warns Elizabeth Sepper, JD, who teaches at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.
Sepper, an associate professor of law at Washington University, contends the dangerous doctrine of “corporate conscience” has begun to emerge as courts endow secular, inanimate businesses with inherently human religious and moral beliefs to excuse them from complying with the law.
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