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The brief Nancy Pelosi signed with 148 House members and 37 senators argues that:

<><> protecting religious liberty has to be balanced against "compelling government interests."

<><> "Accepting Petitioners' arguments would require the Court to abandon the critical balance between burdens on religion and harm to others that it has maintained for decades and so recently reaffirmed"

<><> "Petitioners' arguments, if accepted, could alter this careful balance between accommodating religious freedom and protecting compelling governmental interests, not only with respect to contraceptive coverage but also in other areas."

<><> "The accommodation of sincerely held religious beliefs cannot be permitted to upend the careful, necessary balance between respect for religious freedom and the government's interest in protecting public health and welfare and prohibiting discrimination against women."

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Pelosi's apparent position is that the government's interest in forcing Catholic employers to maintain insurance plans ........ insists that the govt plans must cover sterilizations, contraceptives and abortifacients ....and that providing these "services" justify curtailing the religious liberty of those employers.