White House announces move to restrict birth control coverage
In yet another blow to women’s reproductive health rights, the White House Office of Management and Budget has announced that it will review rules that require most employers to provide free contraception coverage in their health insurance plans for female employees.
Under the contraception mandate outlined by President Obama in 2012, birth control coverage was judged an essential preventative health service. As a result, birth control coverage was guaranteed to more than 55 million women in the U.S. and women saved an estimated $1.4 billion in birth control pill costs in the mandate’s first year alone. In addition to saving women money, the rule was also credited with helping lower the U.S.’s abortion rate to its lowest recorded point since abortion was made legal in 1973.
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