Birth control is now supposed to be free and easy to access, but that’s not always the case for low income women. In many states they are minimizing the amount of birth control that is being handed out …show more content…
This will help many low income teens.“With this rule in place, any employer could decide that their employees no longer have health insurance coverage for birth control,” Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Under Obamacare, some employers with religious connections could opt out of the birth control mandate, citing their religious beliefs. To do this, they had to file paperwork with the government indicating their objection, in turn triggering separate contraceptive (preventing pregnancy) coverage for employees provided directly by the insurance company. A study was released in August by the left leaning Center for American Progress found that for profit, non-religious employers had already thought to benefit from the religious accommodation built into Obamacare in order to avoid paying for birth control. More than half of the 45 applications submitted to the health department between January 2014 and March 2016 for an exemption came from for-profit companies, often in industries unrelated to religion, like tax services, landscaping, agriculture, or construction. ¨The Republican presidential candidates also have come out against birth control. Mitt Romney has slammed President Barack Obama for requiring most employers to offer insurance that provides birth control at no cost to women who want it, even though Romney himself maintained a similar rule as governor of