Should employers be required by law to cover birth control? | The Tylt
Outside of religious institutions, Obamacare stipulated that all employers provide insurance coverage for contraception without co-pays. Now, the Trump administration wants to allow businesses to claim religious and moral objections to covering birth control. Supporters say requiring employers to pay for contraception could violate their moral beliefs and religious freedom. Critics say contraception is healthcare, and that these exemptions discriminate against women. What do you think?

The ACLU says allowing moral and religious exemptions from covering contraception is gender discrimination.
Singling out care that only women need is sex discrimination. https://t.co/IcbvjqdXAk
— ACLU National (@ACLU) August 21, 2017
With the Obamacare birth control mandate on the chopping block, women are rushing to purchase more expensive, long-lasting forms of birth control—like the IUD before the mandate is taken away. Healthcare experts say hundreds of thousands of women would lose coverage to birth control if the new Trump administration rule goes into effect.
IUDs have seen a surge in popularity since Donald Trump's election. Here's why this form of birth control is so popular, and how it works: pic.twitter.com/hKNp8eqT6F
— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 18, 2017
But religious groups applaud the move. The Obamacare mandate did provide an exemption for religious employers, but now for-profit businesses will be allowed to claim of moral exemption from covering contraception for their employees. For people who believe certain forms of birth control are either immoral or akin to abortion, the decision is a welcome one.
The rule would allow employers to claim a “moral objection” to providing contraceptive coverage in their health insurance, not just a “religious objection” as the law currently allows. The draft of the rule does not define what constitutes a “moral objection.”
Many conservatives say feminist groups calling the change anti-woman are just being hysterical.
There is no war on women.
— OC🇺🇸TrumpGirl (@CLiberty4) July 14, 2017
Pay for your own birth control like I did.
They see the decision to be sexually active as a personal choice that individual women need to take responsibility for.
Meanwhile women in America are marching because having to pay for your own birth control is "opression" https://t.co/e1fGjgudkM
— Orwell (@Avsfan24) July 10, 2017
Women should pay for birth control #ConfessYourUnpopularOpinion
— Substitute Idiot (@Javier_Comedy) August 8, 2017
But many groups say contraception is health care; women use it for many reasons other than the prevention of pregnancy. Affordable contraception dramatically reduces unintended pregnancies, the rate of abortions and the total number of welfare recipients, which is why the Obama administration spent years in court arguing that the government has a compelling public health interest in fully covering contraceptives.
If our goal is reducing abortions denying millions of women access to contraception & health care is a completely counterproductive #txlege https://t.co/ETaJAeMeJz
— Carol Fletcher (@drfletcher88) August 4, 2017