The Supreme Court has upheld regulations from the Trump administration that allowed employers with religious objections to decline to provide contraception coverage, which could make it harder for low-wage workers to access birth control.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Donald Trump administration regulation that lets employers with religious or moral objections limit women’s access to birth control coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
In the Obama years, the court heard two cases on whether religious groups could refuse to comply with regulations requiring contraceptive coverage.
The Trump administration took the side of the religious employers, saying that requiring contraception coverage can impose a “substantial burden” on the free exercise of religion. The regulations it has promulgated made good on a campaign pledge by President Donald Trump, who has said that employers should not be “bullied by the federal government because of their religious beliefs.
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