Lawsuit targets Trump’s rollback of birth-control rule
Two national advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit in
The suit was filed on behalf of five women at risk of being denied birth control coverage, including three
The Catholic university in northern
Under new rules issued
The lawsuit argues that the new rules — which have been assailed by many women's rights and reproductive rights activists — violate the equal protection and due process guarantees of the
"Blocking access to basic health care that 99 percent of women use at some point in their lives is unlawful, discriminatory and harmful,"
The lawsuit's other plaintiffs are an employee at a university in
"I believe taking birth control in no way violates my religious beliefs," she said. "It's a personal decision I make to plan my family."
The defendants named in the lawsuit include acting HHS Secretary
The
The university's medical plan will cover contraceptives if they're used to treat a specific medical condition, not as a method to prevent pregnancy. Those medications will come with standard prescription copayments.
Three organizations that have been closely monitoring the birth-control debate —
Notre Dame, which is in
The university fought the law's original mandate on religious grounds, but that lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed on
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