Sentences with phrase «affordable birth control coverage»

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This is the most recent salvo by religious organizations against the Affordable Care Act's mandate for comprehensive health care coverage, which includes some forms of birth control.

Hobby Lobby, an arts and crafts chain, challenged a provision in the Affordable Care Act requiring employers to offer birth control coverage in employee health insurance plans.

The company challenged the requirement, which was part of the Affordable Care Act signed into law in 2010, on grounds that providing coverage for certain types of birth control would go against their religious beliefs.

The Court's decision exempts select closely - held companies from an Affordable Care Act provision that requires employers to include birth control coverage in health insurance plans.

Because of the birth control coverage benefit, millions more women will have access to affordable birth control.

«Today's message is simple: we deserve affordable coverage for basic preventive health care, including birth control.»

Scrapping the Affordable Care Act's birth control coverage allows virtually any employer to refuse to cover birth control on religious or moral grounds.

The Affordable Care Act — which Trump vowed to repeal — requires coverage of some forms of birth control, including intrauterine devices, by nearly all health insurance plans.

The birth control coverage benefit is also one of the most popular provisions in the Affordable Care Act, even among Catholics, whose bishops oppose birth control.

Calling the Affordable Care Act «the greatest advance in women's health in a generation,» Planned Parenthood said the law will provide access to birth control and cancer screenings without co-pays, guaranteed direct access to OB / GYN providers without referrals, and an end to discriminatory practices against women, such as charging women higher premiums and denying coverage for «pre-existing conditions.»

The FY2013 spending bill sought to eliminate the Title X federal family planning program, prohibit Planned Parenthood health centers from serving women in federal health programs, block implementation of critical benefits under the Affordable Care Act, and revive the dangerous refusal provision that would allow any business or corporation to deny any essential health care service they object to, including coverage for birth control and cancer screenings.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America applauds the decision by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to ensure access to affordable birth control, and not further expand the refusal provision to the birth control coverage benefit under the Affordableaffordable birth control, and not further expand the refusal provision to the birth control coverage benefit under the AffordableAffordable Care Act.

We travel to Washington, DC to join rallies on the Affordable Health Care Act and birth control coverage.

The Trump administration put in place a new rule Friday that allows employers to deny insurance coverage of birth control under the Affordable Care Act if that employer has a religious or moral objection to providing that coverage.

Although the ACA repeal bill does not specifically repeal the no - copay birth control benefit, women will still find it more difficult to access birth control because the bill makes coverage less affordable by:

When the Trump Administration gutted the Affordable Care Act's birth control protections, the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund worked tirelessly to protect access to affordable contraception coverage in MassAffordable Care Act's birth control protections, the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund worked tirelessly to protect access to affordable contraception coverage in Massaffordable contraception coverage in Massachusetts.