SCOTUS gave the Trump administration a victory by allowing religious employers to deny employees birth control coverage, most employers weren’t allowed to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to their employees. Now, the Supreme Court has ruled that a new regulation from the Trump administration was proper in allowing companies with religious or moral objections to deny employees no-cost birth control.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has upheld a Trump administration rule allowing employers with religious or moral objections to opt out of the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate—making it more difficult for employees to get access to birth control through their health plans.Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor were the only ones to dissent.
The ruling is, of course, a victory for Trump, whose administration sought to expand the types of employers who could refuse to provide contraceptives as part of their health care coverage for moral and religious reasons.nine out of 10 women will seek some kind of birth control in the course of their lives.
In the majority opinion, Justice Thomas argued that the Department of Health and Human Services, “has virtually unbridled discretion to decide what counts as preventive care and screenings,” and that authority “leaves its discretion equally unchecked in other areas, including the ability to identify and create exemptions from its own guidelines.”
Companies? You mean the people who run/own these companies. Likely the same people who want their bodily autonomy when it comes to masks.
What they meant is companies with religious objections do not need to cover preventative health for women. Why, because women don’t matter? Which companies will take advantage of this? Hobby Lobby is probably one?