US judge blocks Trump religious exemption to birth control coverage

By Daniel Wiessner

(Reuters) -Marning has undertaken the rules that exempted employers with religious or moral objections to employers with religious or moral objections in the first period of President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

The US regional judge Wendy Beetlestone in Philadelphia said that 2018 rules are not right and the Trump administration rejected the claims that they are necessary to protect the rights of religious employers.

The decision came by Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 2020 in a case that could not upheld the rules regarding technical reasons but did not deal with their values.

The US Department of Justice did not respond immediately to the request for comments.

According to the Becket Religious Freedom Fund, a non -profit organization representing the order, the little sisters of the poor who intervened in the case to defend the rules.

The Federal appropriate maintenance law requires employers to provide insurance scope for contraception, but enables those who have religious objections to search for exemption.

The 2018 rules created a blanket exemption for employers with religious or moral objections for birth control. The Trump administration said that even employers, which require employers to apply for exemption, can violate federal laws and upload religious practices.

However, on Wednesday, Beetlestone said there was a relatively few employers who may need this and a relatively few employers.

“He doubts whether there is a rational connection between the problem defined by the agencies and the solution they have chosen,” Democrat President Barack Obama was appointed.

The administration of President Joe Biden, a democrat, proposed to withdraw the rules of Trump in 2023, but this proposal withdrew in January weeks before Biden resigned.

(Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in New York, Albany; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)