“When Christ and country conflict, Geneva chooses Christ. When this priority meant disregarding federal law to aid escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad, then Geneva helped the escaped slave. Recently, this meant that Geneva had to file a lawsuit against the federal government over its healthcare law instead of being responsible for ending life once it had been conceived by providing an abortifacient medication. Now, we are taking our concern for protection of religious freedom—and the protection of life—to the nation’s highest court. We pray that God will be glorified through the efforts of everyone involved.” —Dr. William Edgar, Interim President
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to weigh in on the Obama administration’s abortion-pill mandate and its “accommodation” for some non-profit organizations. The decision to hear the case, which came in November of 2015, is the culmination of the federal lawsuit Geneva filed in February of 2012, Geneva College v. Sebelius. That lawsuit argued that the Obama administration’s mandate requiring employers to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs to employees and students regardless of religious or moral convictions violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, as well as the First and Fifth amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys represent Geneva, as well as four Christian universities in Oklahoma. ADF is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith.