The Little Sisters of the Poor are back in court, fighting against Democratic politicians who want to narrow the freedom to exercise one’s religion.

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) continues to battle the Little Sisters by fighting in court to strike down a religious exemption created by President Donald Trump to the contraception mandate created by Barack Obama in 2011.

There are slightly complicated procedural and legalistic issues involved, but the bigger question is why employer-provided contraception coverage is so important as to require these legal battles to force nuns to violate their own consciences.

HOW UKRAINE’S MILITARY OVERACHIEVES

It turns out this fight is so protracted and so intense because it’s a clash of irreconcilable foundational ideas. It’s a religious war.

The first big lawsuit over the contraceptive mandate didn’t involve Catholics or even the pill. It was about the morning-after pills known as Ella and Plan B.

While Plan B was marketed as a way to prevent ovulation and thus prevent pregnancy, its label, as required by the Food and Drug Administration, noted that it may act after fertilization, by preventing the fertilized egg — that is, a tiny human individual — from implanting in the uterine wall.

Ella, the science suggests, acts in the same way. Reproductive Science is the journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation. In 2014, the journal published a research paper from five gynecologists who studied Ulipristal Acetate, the active ingredient in Ella.

Their conclusion: “UPA succeeds in........

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