Obamacare's preventive care provisions struck down by federal judge.

A federal judge in Texas has struck down Affordable Care Act provisions that require health insurers to provide some free preventive care services, jeopardizing coverage nationwide for people relying on the health care law for preventive services such as screenings for cancer as well as HIV drugs. The ruling was based on the judge's previous ruling on the structure of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which was created under Obamacare and helps determine preventive services coverage, saying it violates the appointments clause of the Constitution and thus its related preventive care mandates are unlawful. The plaintiffs who brought the lawsuit objected to purchasing health insurance that provided coverage for those drugs, the human papillomavirus vaccine, contraceptives, and screenings for sexually transmitted diseases because "coverage for those services violates their religious beliefs by making them complicit in facilitating homosexual behavior, drug use, and sexual activity outside of marriage between one man and one woman."