President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is withdrawing proposed regulations that would have narrowed employers’ ability to opt out of covering birth control for their employees.
HHS issued a notice in the Federal Register on Monday announcing that it was rescinding the rules, “which would have prohibited employers from claiming an exemption based on ‘non-religious moral objections’ to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate,” Politico reported.
HHS said the department was rescinding the proposed regulations to “focus their time and resources on matters other than finalizing these rules” in the final days of the Biden administration before Donald Trump returns to the White House.
Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents an order of nuns called Little Sisters of the Poor who have repeatedly legally challenged the…
