"A U.S. district judge in Colorado ... blocked the Obama administration from enforcing its requirement that a Colorado employer provide its workers with insurance coverage of contraceptives without a co-pay.... The ruling applies to one specific business, and does not stop the whole rule from going into effect [on August 1]. 'On balance, the threatened harm to plaintiffs, impingement of their right to freely exercise their religious beliefs, and the concomitant public interest in that right strongly favor the entry of injunctive relief,' Judge John L. Kane, an appointee of former President Jimmy Carter, wrote in the order."

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