{"id":323695,"date":"2024-12-27T18:06:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T00:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=323695"},"modified":"2024-12-29T11:09:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T17:09:17","slug":"biden-administration-birth-control-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/biden-administration-birth-control-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration abandons effort to expand birth control access"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Biden-Harris administration has withdrawn<\/a> its proposed plan to expand access to birth control as the end of Biden’s presidential term looms.<\/p>\n

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced<\/a> on Monday in a Federal Register notice that it is withdrawing its proposed regulations “to focus their time and resources on matters other than finalizing these rules” during Biden’s last weeks in office.<\/p>\n

The plan, first proposed in January 2023, involved reversing a Trump-era policy<\/a> that gave employers the ability to cite “non-religious moral objections” to the Affordable Care Act’s birth control coverage requirement. It’s the same mandate<\/a> that tried to force the Little Sisters of the Poor to pay for their employee’s abortions, according to the Becket law firm.<\/p>\n

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#BREAKING<\/a>: Christmas came a little early this year. This afternoon, shortly after @WJMcGurn<\/a>\u2019s @WSJ<\/a> column wishing religious organizations like the Little Sisters of the Poor would have their ministries and their religious liberty rights protected, one threat to the Sisters\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 BECKET (@BECKETlaw) December 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n