Biden administration withdraws birth control rules

The Biden administration is withdrawing a set of proposed rules aimed at expanding access to contraception that would have made it more difficult for employer-sponsored health plans and insurers to exclude coverage of birth control.

The move, announced late Monday in a Federal Register notice, will leave in place Trump-era rules allowing employers to cite "non-religious moral objections" to the Affordable Care Act's requirement to cover contraception.

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