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Biden administration withdraws birth control rules

Summary

The Biden administration is withdrawing a set of proposed rules aimed at expanding access to contraception that would have made it more difficult for employer-sponsored health plans and insurers to exclude coverage of birth control. The move, announced late Monday in a Federal Register notice, will leave in place Trump-era rules allowing employers to cite “non-religious moral objections” to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to cover contraception.

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The New York Sun

Biden Administration Quietly Withdraws Proposal To Force Religious Employers To Pay for Birth Control

The Department of Health and Human Services said it wants to be able to spend its ‘time and resources on matters other than finalizing these rules.’

3 months ago·New York, United States

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Townhall

Biden Administration Nixes Plan to Expand Birth Control Access

Biden HHS Scraps Proposed Rule Forcing Employers to Cover Birth Control

President Joe Biden's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is withdrawing proposed regulations that would have narrowed employers' ability to opt out of covering birth control for their employees. The post Biden HHS Scraps Proposed Rule Forcing Employers to Cover Birth Control appeared first on Breitbart.

3 months ago·United States

Biden Scraps Mandate That Would Force Christian Employers to Cover Abortion, Birth Control

The Biden administration quietly withdrew a proposal to reduce the ability of employers to opt-out of covering birth control for employees on Monday. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published notice in the Federal Register on Monday that the agency is pulling back its proposed regulations to bar employers from being excused from the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraceptive mandate on the grounds of “non-religious moral objecti…

3 months ago·New York, United States

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The Epoch Times

HHS Ends Push for Expanded Contraception Access, Keeps Trump-Era Employer Opt-Outs

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has withdrawn a set of proposed regulations aimed at expanding access to contraception, leaving in place Trump-era rules that allow employers to opt out of providing birth control coverage due to religious or moral objections. The decision not to move forward with the proposed rules, which sought to narrow the ability of employers to claim exemptions to the Obamacare contraception mandate, was an…

3 months ago·New York, United States

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