Columbia Law Experts Denounce Federal Guidance Allowing Religious and Moral Discrimination in Contraceptive Coverage

Authors

Public Rights/Private Conscience Project, Columbia Law School

Project

Law, Rights, and Religion Project

Document Type

Document

Publication Date

10-2017

Abstract

Columbia Law School’s Public Rights/Private Conscience Project (PRPCP) condemns the Trump administration for issuing sweeping new rules today that roll back the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s birth control benefit, by broadening exemptions for employers who claim religious or moral objections to offering birth control to their workers. These regulations place the religious and moral views of employers above the health and wellbeing of their workers and gut the contraceptive coverage provision of the ACA by dramatically reducing access to affordable birth control. Rather than protecting religious freedom for all Americans, these regulations are part of the current administration’s ongoing effort to advance a limited set of conservative religious beliefs while limiting the liberty and equality rights of women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and religious minorities.

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | Law | Women's Health

Comments

Press Statement

Recommended Citation

Public Rights/Private Conscience Project, Columbia Law Experts Denounce Federal Guidance Allowing Religious and Moral Discrimination in Contraceptive Coverage, (2017).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/gender_sexuality_law/51