Trump Set to Roll Back Obama-Era Contraception Rule
This is a good reminded that trumps minions are working behind the scenes to destroy the US as we knew it.
Trump Set to Roll Back Obama-Era Contraception Rule
https://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-era-contraception-rule-set-to-be-rolled-back-by-trump-1502915031?mod=e2tw
Administration is poised to unwind a requirement that employee health benefits include contraception
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By Michelle Hackman and Louise Radnofsky
Aug. 16, 2017 4:23 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is poised to issue a rule unwinding an Obama -era requirement that employee health benefits include contraception, which will spark a fresh round of litigation over an issue that has been before courts for six years.
Federal health officials are expected to finalize a regulation that would allow employers with religious or moral objections to birth control to omit coverage for contraception from their workers’ plans, according to two people familiar with its contents. The regulation closely mirrors an earlier, leaked draft, they said.
The Supreme Court has ruled, in a case brought by the arts-and-crafts chain Hobby Lobby, that “closely held” private companies can invoke religious objections to avoid covering contraception.
The Trump administration rule would allow a much broader set of employers to opt out of offering coverage for birth control, making moot a “workaround’’ designed by the Obama administration that allowed women in some cases to obtain coverage even if their employers had declined to offer it directly.
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Reproductive-rights activists say they will sue the Trump administration if it moves ahead with the rule, arguing that the change would unfairly impose employers’ beliefs on their workers and that the administration has cut regulatory corners in writing the policy.............................
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