{"id":7610,"date":"2017-10-09T20:17:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T03:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7610"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:21:37","slug":"trump-gives-relief-to-religious-obamacare-objectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7610","title":{"rendered":"Trump gives relief to religious Obamacare objectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Deseret News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Hannah C. Smith<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, the Trump administration revised rules implementing the Affordable Care Act in a way that expands protections for religious and moral objectors to the contraception mandate \u2014 achieving the common-sense balance that religious organizations have sought for the past six years. These revisions allow religious nonprofits \u2014 like the Little Sisters of the Poor \u2014 to avoid millions of dollars in fines because their employee health insurance plans exclude coverage for contraception, a practice contrary to Catholic doctrine on respecting human life.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by some media hyperbole, however, you would think that the federal government had just abolished the ACA\u2019s birth control mandate altogether. Headlines that claim the federal government\u2019s move \u201creverses\u201d or \u201cscraps\u201d or \u201cends\u201d the mandate are all wrong.. . .The vast majority of women in America will continue to receive free birth control, and religious objectors will not be forced into providing services that violate their conscience. . . 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These revisions allow religious nonprofits \u2014 like the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump gives relief to religious Obamacare objectors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,16,650,9,295,28],"tags":[183,2332],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-protection-of-conscience-laws","category-contraception","category-news","category-religious-freedom","category-usa","tag-hhs-preventive-services-mandate","tag-us-dept-of-health-and-human-services-hhs"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Trump gives relief to religious Obamacare objectors - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7610\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump gives relief to religious Obamacare objectors - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Deseret News Hannah C. 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