Federal Judge Rules That Employers Can Refuse to Cover HIV Prevention Drugs on Religious Grounds

The Affordable Care Act requires insurance plans to cover PrEP, but a judge in Texas decided that violates employers' religious freedom.

gutting the prevention coverage requirements of the Affordable Care Act could free “private insurers from the obligation to provide so much basic coverage—again, we’re talking vaccines, pregnancy care, cancer screening and treatment ... The list is nearly endless.”O’Connor’s decision comes during a massive wave of right-wing homophobic and anti-trans panic.

; are trying to criminalize doctors and parents who provide gender-affirming care to trans teens and kids; want to pull LGBTQ-related books off library shelves and out of classrooms; and have not-so-subtly hinted since the Supreme Court overturned

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