Sentences with phrase «on contraceptive coverage»
The White House seems to have assuaged the concerns of liberal and moderate religious voices, particularly Catholics, who complained that the U.S. Health and Human Services mandate on contraceptive coverage violated religious freedom of conscience.
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The new regulations extend the accommodation available to religiously affiliated nonprofit employers to closely held2 for profit corporations that have adopted a resolution establishing that the corporation objects to some or all contraceptive services on account of the owners» sincerely held religious beliefs.3 Starting in the new plan year, Hobby Lobby and other closely held corporations with religious objections will be required to notify their insurer, third party administrator, or HHS so that the insurer or administrator can still provide the contraceptive coverage directly to the employees and their dependents.
The policy goes into effect on August 1, but U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in a statement January 20 that religious organizations that do not provide contraceptive coverage based on religious belief will have until August 1, 2013, to comply.
Washington (CNN)- Seven states on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the federal government requirement that religious employers offer health insurance coverage that includes contraceptives and other birth control services.
In March, after an uproar among religious institutions that didn't want to pay for contraceptives, the Obama administration offered several policy suggestions that would require the administrator of the insurance policy, not the religious institution or the insurer, to pay for contraception coverage and invited comment on those proposals.
According to the government's Hobby Lobby petition, the Supreme Court must decide whether or not a for - profit corporation can «deny its employees the health coverage of contraceptives... based on the religious objections of the corporation's owners.»
DeGioia took no position on the question that started this latest skirmish in our ongoing culture wars: contraceptive coverage in health care.
(CNN)-- The Obama administration's key Catholic ally on its controversial plan to require health insurers to provide free contraceptive coverage is dropping support for the plan, potentially complicating the president's relations with Catholics in an election year.
This is all based on the belief that Plan B, Ella and two intrauterine contraceptives are in fact abortifacient; therefore, it became a «religious right to exclude such contraceptives from ACA coverage» issue.
The priest sex - abuse scandal, a Vatican crackdown on nuns, a head - knocking fight with the president of the United States over contraceptive coverage - none of these would qualify as good news.
Planned Parenthood also released a survey on the rule Tuesday; it found that 53 % of Catholics think that women employed by Catholic hospitals and universities should have the same rights to contraceptive coverage as other women.
On Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh blasted Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who testified before Congress in favor of contraceptive coverage in health plans, as a «slut» and a «prostitute.»
«You might not support all of these issues, but it is important to know where you stand and where all Democrats stand on a woman's right to choose, GENDA, single payer health care, contraceptive coverage, family planning funding, campaign finance reform and the DREAM Act.»
It really started with an image: The all - male, clerical - heavy line - up was speaking before Rep. Darrell Issa's House hearing on the Obama administration's new policy requiring contraceptive coverage in new health insurance policies, with a small exemption for churches that object.
A decision by President Donald Trump's administration relax requirements that employers provide birth control and contraceptive coverage was blasted on Friday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The US Supreme Court closed out its latest session Monday with a flurry of decisions on everything from Hobby Lobby contraceptive coverage to cell phone searches.
The mandate for contraceptive coverage is part of the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans in Congress so far have failed to repeal or at the very least overhaul on narrow grounds.
Planned Parenthood led the charge on several critical women's health and rights victories, including: the creation of the birth control pill and the development of the IUD; the legalization of birth control and abortion care; insurance coverage for contraception; public awareness and availability of emergency contraception; ensuring that pharmacies fill prescriptions for birth control; and coverage without co-pays of the full range of FDA - approved contraceptive methods.
For several years, Arizona had allowed only churches to opt out of the state's contraceptive coverage mandate; in 2012, it expanded the exemption to permit any employer or plan enrollee to opt out based on their religious belief.
Moreover, some states have built on the federal guarantee by taking steps such as ensuring that patients can receive insurance coverage for a full year's supply of contraceptives at one time (rather than for either one or three months at a time, as is typical).10 This development is especially important for abortion patients who are not interested in LARCs but may need time to find another type of provider for ongoing contraceptive care — if, for example, they do not live near the abortion clinic.
Some have built on this line of reasoning by suggesting that oral contraceptives should be given over-the-counter status too, as a replacement for comprehensive insurance coverage of contraception.1 Similarly, social conservatives seeking to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs such as Medicaid have argued that less - specialized health care providers, such as federally qualified health centers, could fill the void this would create.2 And in October, a leaked White House memo recommended that funding for the Title X national family planning program should be cut by at least half and suggested that money could be better used for teaching adolescents about fertility awareness methods exclusively.3