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US Judge Blocks Trump Rollback Of Obama Care Birth Control Exemptions Nationwide

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A district court judge in Pennsylvania on Monday issued a nationwide injunction blocking a Trump administration rule that would allow most employers to opt out of ObamaCare’s requirement to provide birth control in their insurance plans.

 

Judge Wendy Beetlestone temporarily blocked the rule from taking effect while it is challenged in court by the attorneys general in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

 

The rule was supposed to take effect Monday.

 

The rule would allow employers with moral or religious objections to birth control to opt out of providing it to their employees.

 

Numerous citizens could lose contraception coverage if the rule were enforced, Beetlestone wrote in her ruling, causing “significant, direct and proprietary harm” to the states through increased use of state-funded contraception services.

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