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The right to use contraceptives would be enshrined in law under a measure that Democrats pushed through the House.
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Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate
The Trump administration issued a rule Friday that sharply limits the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate, a move that could mean many American women would no longer have access to birth control free of charge. The new regulation, issued ...
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Read More »New Md. birth control law treats pharmacists as providers
Pharmacists in Maryland will be able to prescribe birth control under a new Maryland law, another step as they gain more abilities to act as providers of medical care. At a time when the medical community is concerned about disparities ...
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Read More »8-justice Supreme Court dodges decision on birth control
WASHINGTON — A short-handed Supreme Court dodged but kept alive a legal challenge Monday from faith-based groups over the Obama administration’s rules for cost-free access to birth control. It was the latest sign of justices struggling to find a majority ...
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Read More »Justices divided over health law birth control plan
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seems deeply divided over the arrangement devised by the Obama administration to spare faith-based groups from having to pay for birth control for women covered under their health plans. The court’s conservative justices sounded supportive ...
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Read More »Nonprofits’ contraceptive cases next for justices
How much distance from an immoral act is enough? That's the difficult question behind the next legal dispute over religion, birth control and the health law that is likely to be resolved by the Supreme Court.
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Read More »Ruling won’t alter birth-control coverage for many
Business owners who don't want to pay for their employees' birth control are ending that coverage after the Supreme Court said they could choose on grounds of religious belief not to comply with part of the health care law.
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Read More »Supreme Court divided on Hobby Lobby challenge
The justices of the Supreme Court appeared divided during Tuesday’s oral arguments in a case that pits the religious rights of business owners against the rights of employees to have access to affordable reproductive health care.
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Read More »Birth control rule seems to divide Supreme Court
The Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the question of whether companies have religious rights, a case challenging President Barack Obama's health overhaul.
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Read More »Court grants nuns temporary exemption on birth-control mandate
The Supreme Court on Friday offered a short-term compromise that would continue to exempt a group of Denver nuns from the birth-control mandate of the nation's health care law.
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