Obamacare Birth Control Opt Out Rules Face 3rd Circuit Test

Final rules exempting employers with religious or moral objections from Obamacare’s birth control coverage requirements should be allowed to take effect immediately, the government says.

President Donald Trump, the Health and Human Services Department, the Treasury Department, and the Labor Department Feb. 15 asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to lift a nationwide injunction preventing the rules’ implementation.

Pennsylvania and New Jersey won an order blocking the government from enforcing the final rules Jan. 14. The administration and the agencies appealed Feb. 6.

An Affordable Care Act provision, known as the “contraceptive mandate,” requires employee health ...