Contraception mandate Archives

Court order blocking contraception exemptions upheld

Associated Press, Church in the US
Jul 13, 2019

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court order that blocked the Trump administration from enforcing rules that allow more employers to deny insurance coverage for contraceptives to women.

Judge blocks expansion of religious exemptions to contraceptive mandate

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jan 15, 2019

A federal judge temporarily blocked the government from putting into effect new rules that would expand the exemption to the federal contraceptive mandate to the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious employers.

Little Sisters back in court to defend HHS mandate exemption

Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
Jan 11, 2019

The Little Sisters of the Poor are back in court this week, as two states are challenging their religious exemption from the HHS contraception mandate.

Final HHS rule confirms religious exemption to contraceptive mandate

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Nov 10, 2018

A rule finalizing the religious exemption to the contraceptive mandate should be “the end of a long cultural war fight” over the issue and confirm that the U.S. government “never needed nuns to give out contraceptives” to women, said the president of the Becket law firm.

Trump administration announces new conscience exemptions for contraceptive mandate

Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
Nov 8, 2018

The Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor released two updated rules concerning conscience protections for organizations and individuals in relation to the HHS contraception mandate.

Court hears arguments in suit aiming to take mandate exemption from nuns

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Oct 25, 2018

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco heard oral arguments Oct. 19 in a lawsuit that aims to overturn a 2017 federal regulation expanding the exemption to the federal contraceptive mandate to include the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious employers.