Abortion

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Judge blocks Trump’s changes to birth-control coverage nationwide

New rule would allow more companies to opt out of free contraceptives

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal judge on Monday put a nationwide hold on Trump administration rules that allow more employers to opt out of providing women with no-cost birth control.

U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone in Philadelphia agreed with a lawsuit originally filed by Pennsylvania, citing the potential harm to states should the rules be enforced.

Numerous citizens could lose contraceptive coverage, Beetlestone wrote, resulting in the increased use of state-funded contraceptive services, as well as increased costs to state services from unintended pregnancies.

one has to wonder where the trump, republican judges are on some of the recent rulings against fundamentalist / christian - desert religion values ... surly they will be heard from.