The Supreme Court is hearing a birth control case today — and it's likely the court's conservative justices will make it tougher for women to get birth control if they work for religiously affiliated institutions like hospitals, charities and universities.
Houses of worship like churches and synagogues were automatically exempted from the provision, but religiously affiliated nonprofits like universities, charities and hospitals were not. Such organizations employ millions of people, many of whom want access to birth control for themselves and their family members. But many of these institutions say they have a religious objection to providing birth control for employees.
But when President Trump came into office, the administration issued new rules that would give broad exemptions to nonprofits and some for-profit companies that have objections to providing birth-control coverage for their employees. And the new rules expanded the category of employers who would be exempt from the birth-control mandate to include not just those with religious objections, but those with moral objections, too.
But Brigitte Amiri, the deputy director the of ACLU's Reproductive Freedom project, says the idea that Title X could make up for the lost coverage is"a joke." Amiri notes that the Title X program has been underfunded for years, and the Trump administration has issued new regulations that in her words"decimated the program."
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