09/10/2017

US Govt Rolls Back Access To Free Birth Control

The US Government has ruled that employers can now opt out of providing free birth control to millions of Americans.

The ruling allows employers and insurers to decline to provide birth control if doing so violates their religious beliefs or moral convictions.


It is thought over 55 million women benefitted from the Obamacare feature which made companies provide free birth control.

On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it was important to expand which organisations can opt out and deny free contraceptive coverage.

An official for the HHS is quoted by the BBC as saying: "We should have space for organisations to live out their religious ideas and not face discrimination because of their religious ideas."

(JP/LM)

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