Trump Religion Rule Curbs Obamacare’s Birth Control Coverage
- ACA required employers to cover contraceptives, other services
- Changes create wide exemptions; ACLU filed suit to oppose rule
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The Trump administration will let employers opt out of providing health plans that cover birth control, weakening a requirement put in place by the Affordable Care Act as part of a wider push to expand religious freedom.
The shift would broaden an Obama-era religious exemption from providing contraception coverage to more for-profit corporations and others not included in an earlier workaround. It would also permit employers to decide against offering contraception coverage for “moral,” rather than religious, reasons.