Obama-appointed judge blocks Trump’s rule ending HHS contraceptive mandate

Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone (pictured) has blocked a Trump order from October that was to end the federal requirement that employers violate their consciences to participate in the provision of employees’ contraceptives and abortifacient drugs.

Judge Beetlestone ruled in the lawsuit filed by the state of Pennsylvania that she would not permit such “sweeping exemptions” to the Affordable Care Act and could not envision an exemption that “intrudes more into the lives of women.”

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