Trump Set to Roll Back Obama-Era Contraception Rule

[brooklynite]

Source: Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is poised to issue a rule unwinding an Obama -era requirement that employee health benefits include contraception, which will spark a fresh round of litigation over an issue that has been before courts for six years.

Federal health officials are expected to finalize a regulation that would allow employers with religious or moral objections to birth control to omit coverage for contraception from their workers’ plans, according to two people familiar with its contents. The regulation closely mirrors an earlier, leaked draft, they said.

The Supreme Court has ruled, in a case brought by the arts-and-crafts chain Hobby Lobby, that “closely held” private companies can invoke religious objections to avoid covering contraception.

The Trump administration rule would allow a much broader set of employers to opt out of offering coverage for birth control, making moot a “workaround’’ designed by the Obama administration that allowed women in some cases to obtain coverage even if their employers had declined to offer it directly.

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/obama-era-contraception-rule-set-to-be-rolled-back-by-trump-1502915031

[dhill926]

1. Asshole...

[hibbing]

2. oh ffs n/t

[BigmanPigman]

3. What took him so long...I expected this months ago.

Meanwhile Viagra will be dispensed free of charge in every men's room in the country. Women were meant to be barefoot and pregnant according to the GOP and Religious Right.

[Angry Dragon]

5. +3,193

[BigmanPigman]

6. What is that number?

[sandensea]

4. This can only mean one thing:

His pollsters have told King Con he's starting to lose the Bible thumpers.

[yuiyoshida]

7. Nazi ignorant fuck!

[Bengus81]

8. Got rid of Obama's bike rack,still looking for anything that Black guy did to reverse....

PURE racist POS,no doubt anymore especially after last weekend.

[noneof_theabove]

9. Cake and eat it too...NOT...

Religious exempt applies to only one thing - The Church - in and of itself and the property the building/parsonage resides on it tax exempt.

Any thing outside the The Church is part of standard business, investment and TAX rules.

Hiring a custodian for The Church will allow restrictions they might wish, may not be JC & god wishes, but none the less that is part of the The Church.
Buying up half of Manhattan, see Mormons & Scientology & the Moon guy from the 70's/80's & Olsteen & others, is a "business investment" and should be treated as such, including but not limited to taxation.

The Church demanding its way is absolutely discrimination and everything else associated with the recent Alt-Right/KKK/Nazi/etc. events.

This and arguments about contraception and abortion can be answered in one easy simple question.
Do you have a dog in the hunt?
Or for the goobers, what is "your" business to the item?
For an abortion, the mother [female], the father [male] if know, her spiritual advisor, her family, her friends [maybe].
NO ONE ELSE A DOG IN THE HUNT. PERIOD. FULL STOP.

For the "making a cake" argument, it is Contract Law.
If the cake is on the shelf [as is] the business must, by law, sell that item to anyone with an immediate and final transaction [cash, check or plastic].
Anything else constitutes a "contract" which is defined as a "meeting of the minds" [or for Trump - mindless] to negotiate.
That is very simple, everyone has a right to freely enter or reject a contract.



We the Citizens of Critical Thinking needs to start standing up to this abuse.