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Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate

October 6, 2017 Comments Off on Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate

President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Trump signed an executive order that will direct the Treasury secretary to review the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial oversight law, which reshaped financial regulation after 2008-2009 crisis. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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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New Md. birth control law treats pharmacists as providers

May 30, 2017 Comments Off on 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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8-justice Supreme Court dodges decision on birth control

May 16, 2016 Comments Off on 8-justice Supreme Court dodges decision on birth control

Demonstrators react to hearing the Supreme Court's decision on the Hobby Lobby case outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2014. The Supreme Court says corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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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Justices divided over health law birth control plan

March 23, 2016 Comments Off on 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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Nonprofits’ contraceptive cases next for justices

July 6, 2014 Comments Off on 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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Ruling won’t alter birth-control coverage for many

July 2, 2014 Comments Off on Ruling won’t alter birth-control coverage for many

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that some businesses can, because of their religious beliefs, choose not to comply with the health care law’s requirement that contraception coverage be provided to workers at no extra charge. While the ruling applies to most of the country’s small businesses, in reality, relatively few workers are likely to lose coverage for all forms of contraception. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

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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Supreme Court divided on Hobby Lobby challenge

March 25, 2014 Comments Off on Supreme Court divided on Hobby Lobby challenge

Beth Corbin holds a poster during a demonstration in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday as the court heard oral arguments in the challenges to President Barack Obama's health care law requirement that businesses provide their female employees with health insurance that includes access to contraceptives. Supreme Court justices are weighing whether corporations have religious rights that exempt them from part of the new health care law that requires coverage of birth control for employees at no extra charge. (AP Photo)

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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Birth control rule seems to divide Supreme Court

March 25, 2014 Comments Off on 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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Court grants nuns temporary exemption on birth-control mandate

January 26, 2014 Comments Off on 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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Supreme Court will take up new health law dispute

November 26, 2013 Comments Off on Supreme Court will take up new health law dispute

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama’s health care law: whether businesses may use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. The justices said they will take ...

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