ACLU Comments on Interim Final Rules on ACA's Birth Control Benefit - Religious Exemptions

The ACLU submitted these comments Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury (the Departments) in response to two Interim Final Rules (IFR) on Religious and Moral Exemptions and Accommodations for Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act.

With these IFRs, the Trump administration will allow virtually any employer or university to deprive women of contraceptive coverage, harming them and their health and well-being. In doing so, it ignores Congress’s explicit intent that the ACA require coverage of contraception, discriminates against women, and infringes a woman’s fundamental right to contraception in violation of the Constitution and other federal laws.

For these and other reasons outlined in the comments, the ACLU calls on the Departments to rescind the IFRs.