{"id":36740,"date":"2020-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/employers-can-refuse-to-provide-birth-control-coverage-u-s-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2020-07-09T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:10:06","slug":"employers-can-refuse-to-provide-birth-control-coverage-u-s-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/employers-can-refuse-to-provide-birth-control-coverage-u-s-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers Can Refuse to Provide Birth Control Coverage: U.S Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Lower courts had previously blocked changes to a requirement in the Affordable Care Act<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, July 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; More than 70,000 U.S. women could be left without cost-free birth control after the Supreme Court upheld a Trump administration policy change that permits some employers to refuse to provide contraceptive coverage on religious or moral grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Lower courts had previously blocked the administration&#8217;s changes to a requirement in the Affordable Care Act, but the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 7-2 in favor of the administration, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hold today that the Departments had the statutory authority to craft that exemption, as well as the contemporaneously issued moral exemption,&#8221; Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for a majority of the court. &#8220;We further hold that the rules promulgating these exemptions are free from procedural defects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/65d64e383b5b90cb8620c35ab2bcaecc\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower courts had previously blocked changes to a requirement in the Affordable Care Act<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-36740","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\/36740","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=36740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}