Judges upheld regulations from the Trump administration that allowed employers with religious objections to stop offering contraceptive coverage
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The federal government has estimated that up to 126,000 women could lose contraception coverage through their employer-provided health insurance under Trump's regulation. “Ensuring that women receive the health care they need does not require banishing religious groups that refuse to surrender their beliefs from the public square,” McEnany added.
Liberal Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. “Today, for the first time, the court casts totally aside countervailing rights and interests in its zeal to secure religious rights to the nth degree,” Ginsburg wrote. “Our case is about an overly broad rule that allows the personal beliefs of CEOs to dictate women's guaranteed access to contraceptive medicine,” Shapiro said.Rules implemented under Obama exempted religious entities from the mandate. A further accommodation was created for religiously affiliated non-profit employers, which some groups including the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Roman Catholic order of nuns that was one of the groups seeking an exemption, objected to as not going far enough.
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