Thread: Trump Rolls Back Obama Birth Control Mandate

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women by claiming religious or moral objections, issuing new rules Friday that take another step in rolling back the Obama health care law.

Employers with religious or moral qualms will also be able to cover some birth control methods, and not others. Experts said that could interfere with efforts to promote modern long-acting implantable contraceptives, such as IUDs, which are more expensive.

The new policy was a long-anticipated revision to Affordable Care Act requirements that most companies cover birth control as preventive care for women, at no additional cost. That Obama-era requirement applies to all FDA-approved methods, including the morning-after pill, which some religious conservatives call an abortion drug, though scientists say it has no effect on women who are already pregnant...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/06...insurance.html

It was the mandate of the morning after pill that caused the controversy...that was Hobby Lobby's fight...glad this is being changed...that essentially forced insurance coverage for abortions for those who believe life begins at conception..