Biden administration scraps rules to expand birth control access

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Contraceptive coverage -- including birth control and contraceptive counseling -- is one of a long list of preventive health services insurers are required to cover at no cost to the patient under the Affordable Care Act.
52% : The Department of Health and Human Services said in a notice in the Federal Register Monday that it was rescinding the regulations, which would have prohibited employers from claiming an exemption based on "non-religious moral objections" to the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate.
50% : In a post on X, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents an order of nuns that has repeatedly challenged the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate in court, wrote: "Christmas came a little early this year.
46% : The elimination of federal protections for abortion access in 2022 has made the stakes higher for access to affordable contraception.

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