Trump administration weakens birth control requirement under ACA

Two rules issued Wednesday by the Trump administration will give some employers the opportunity to seek an exemption when it comes to providing contraception coverage for their employees.

Under the Affordable Care Act, employer-provided health insurance plans are required to cover birth control as a preventive service.

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For Foster Teens, Accessing Birth Control Is an Uphill Battle

As an attorney with the Bronx Defenders, Kara Wallis routinely attends permanency hearings, which occur when a foster youth is either being returned to their home, placed with adoptive parents, or beginning independent living. As part of these hearings, judges read a set of directives for the guardian overseeing custody, such as providing the youth with a passport or a driver’s license. For foster youth transitioning to independent living, these directives include things like job counseling.

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TRUMP MAY NOT REQUIRE EMPLOYERS TO COVER BIRTH CONTROL ANYMORE

Last week, the White House quietly announced a new rule had been drafted to rewrite the federal mandate requiring most employers to provide health insurance that covers birth control. But few people outside the administration have seen that rule — and that may not change before it goes into effect.

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Note: More kids for CPS.

Rotterdam calls for compulsory contraception for ‘incompetent’ mothers

Rotterdam city council has called for mothers who are judged incapable of raising children to be given compulsory contraception by court order.

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Free Condoms Mailed To Teens In California

Free Condoms Mailed To Teens In California

Free condoms are being mailed to teens in California by the California Family Health Council. The condoms are being provided as part of a program called the Condom Access Project, which provides free condoms to California residents between the ages of 12 and 19.

Obama to Provide “Family Planning” to Illegal Children Crossing Open US Border

Obama to Provide “Family Planning” to Illegal Children Crossing Open US Border

A $350 million grant opportunity announced Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services to provide shelter for unaccompanied alien children (UAC) states that recipients providing residential shelter to these children must provide them with “family planning services” and that residential care providers deliver services in a manner that is “sensitive” to sexual orientation and gender identity.

Judge Refuses to Drop His Order Allowing Morning-After Pill for All Ages

Judge Refuses to Drop His Order Allowing Morning-After Pill for All Ages

A federal judge on Friday stepped up his criticism of the Obama administration, accusing the Justice Department of making “frivolous” and “silly” arguments in its attempt to delay making the morning-after emergency contraceptive pill available to women and girls of all ages without a prescription.

Teens, Plan B Drug and the Demise of Parental Rights

Teens, Plan B Drug and the Demise of Parental Rights


Parents are meant to be the fundamental guiding influence of a child’s life. They are responsible for nurturing, educating, protecting, and providing for their children. This system, established at creation by God, is the foundation of every stable, prosperous society.

Parental Rights Under Attack in NYC

Parental Rights Under Attack in NYC

New York City parents, do you know what your kids have access to in public school without your consent? I’m not talking about candy and ice cream here. I’m talking about all kinds of contraception, including the morning-after pill.

Group pays drug addicts to get sterilized or receive long-term birth control, sparks criticism

Group pays drug addicts to get sterilized or receive long-term birth control, sparks criticism

On May 9, 2012, Rheana Murray, with the New York Daily News published an article on a controversial non-profit called Project Prevention (formerly known as CRACK: Children Requiring A Caring Kommunity). Project Prevention, based out of North Carolina, pays women $300 to either get tubal ligations (permanent sterilization), or other forms of long-term birth control such as IUDs, Implanon, or Depro-Provera shots. The article does well discussing both supportive and oppositional opinions revolved around the program's practices. Founder Barbara Harris holds firm to the position that Project Prevention is about preventing unwanted pregnancies and placing fewer burdens on the child welfare system. Harris has adopted four siblings, all from the same mother who was addicted to crack. The program believes that decreasing unwanted pregnancies from addict populations will aid with the economic burden on taxpayers, trim down social worker caseloads, and alleviate clients from "the burden of having children that will potentially be taken away" (projectprevention.org) The article also provides opposing viewpoints of Project Prevention, including beliefs that the program is "thinly disguised" racism, targeting vulnerable populations and women of color. Critics condemn the program further by discussing that addicts may not be in a position to make decisions of this magnitude, especially when offered money. Harris responds to criticism within the article stating that two thirds of the women Project Prevention has served are White, and that the majority of women choose long term birth control over sterilization.

Note: I agree with this.  It cuts off the supply to CPS Agents.

Federal court issues injunction against HHS implementation of Obamacare contraception mandate

Read some of the comments on this article. These people are brilliant. The same people who want to block contraception mandates in Obamacare are the ones screaming out against parents who can't care for their kids and end up on welfare or neglect them to the point of being removed and thrown into foster care. Of course unwanted children could be prevented in the first place at a much lower cost than 18 years of food stamps, medicaid and AFDC, but the sinful nature of those who fornicate out of wedlock obviously outweighs any common sense vision of future cost.

Perhaps some of you would prefer resorting to the stoning of harlots?


Federal court issues injunction against HHS implementation of Obamacare contraception mandate


A federal appeals court issued an injunction on Wednesday that temporarily blocks President Barack Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services from implementing Obamacare’s contraception mandate.

Activists allege forced abortions, sterilizations in China

Activists allege forced abortions, sterilizations in China

When Ji Yeqing awakened, she was already in the recovery room.

Thousands rally against DHHS mandate on birth control, for religious freedom

These are the same people who will say - "If you can't feed em, don't breed em!"

Thousands rally against DHHS mandate on birth control, for religious freedom

Across the country, thousands of people skipped lunch Friday to protest what they see as a threat to religious liberties in the United States.

Another threat to religious liberties in the United States is the practice of cutting off faith based adoption and foster care agencies who refuse to do business with homosexuals and transgenders based on what they view as immoral lifestyles. But you don't see anybody out there protesting against that, do you?

Of course not, because then you'll be called a bigot.

Contraception coverage: Foes set rallies today in Detroit, across U.S.

Conservative Christians are to rally today outside federal buildings in Detroit and cities across the U.S. in protest of the Obama administration's mandate on contraception in health care plans, calling it an attack on religious freedom.

Note: I'm sorry, but this goes to show you just how stupid and hypocritical the conservative base is. These idiots who are against contraception are the same people who will cry out against welfare, pointing fingers at young mothers with 5 kids shouting "If you can't feed em, don't breed em!"

Poll: Most back mandating contraception coverage

Poll: Most back mandating contraception coverage

Amid continued controversy surrounding an Obama administration policy mandating that women working at religiously-affiliated institutions be provided with free access to contraceptive health care, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows that most Americans - including Catholics - appear to support the rule.

Poll: Americans Divided Over Contraception Mandate

White House Defends Contraceptive 'Compromise' Amid Uproar

White House Defends Contraceptive 'Compromise' Amid Uproar

White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew appeared on four separate talk shows Sunday and said that the change to the birth control mandate offered by President Barack Obama on Friday should put the issue to rest. Republicans Rick Santorum and Paul Ryan, however, criticized Obama's proposal as not a genuine compromise.

Obama's Birth-Control Rule Will Help Prevent Accidental Pregnancies

Obama's Birth-Control Rule Will Help Prevent Accidental Pregnancies

In the United States, nearly 50 percent of pregnancies are unintended. A new health care rule — which stirred controversy due to its implications for church-affiliated organizations' coverage of contraception — has the potential to significantly reduce accidental pregnancies by increasing access to birth control, according to public health experts.

Denying women who work for Catholic institutions full, free access to birth control is discriminatory

Denying women who work for Catholic institutions full, free access to birth control is discriminatory

Congress is at it once again. Rather than focusing on job creation, women's reproductive health is at the forefront of discussion, this time specifically addressing preventive care. The recent decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to require new insurance plans to cover birth control with no co-pays is being scrutinized by House Republicans.


Guest opinion: Don't take away my birth control

Catholic scholars blast ‘aggressive’ US contraceptive mandate

Catholic scholars blast ‘aggressive’ US contraceptive mandate

A new federal requirement that employers’ health care plans must cover contraceptives is an “aggressive” approach that could hinder or shut down Catholic institutions because of inadequate and “impossibly narrow” religious exemptions, several Catholic commentators have said.

Family Planning and U.S. Foreign Policy

Family Planning and U.S. Foreign Policy


Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy; Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; and Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program