{"id":12696,"date":"2018-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/08\/trump-administration-finalizes-birth-control-coverage-opt-out\/"},"modified":"2018-11-09T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:00:52","slug":"trump-administration-finalizes-birth-control-coverage-opt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/08\/trump-administration-finalizes-birth-control-coverage-opt-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Finalizes Birth Control Coverage Opt-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Employers with religious objections will not have to provide no-cost birth control for female workers<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Nov. 8, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A birth control coverage opt-out for employers was finalized by the Trump administration on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The policy change means some employers with religious or moral objections will not have to provide no-cost birth control for female workers, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported. The opt-out will not apply to governmental employers or large companies with stock sold to investors.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear how many women will be affected by the policy change.<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s rights groups sued the Trump administration over an earlier version of the change and say they will continue their legal fight, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, Trump officials proposed stricter rules on Affordable Care Act plans that cover abortion to ensure that taxpayer-provided subsidies for health insurance are not used to pay for abortions, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/8c90eb432f73420786de1c05da872761\" target=\"_new\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employers with religious objections will not have to provide no-cost birth control for female workers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-12696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}