How Birth Control Became Part of the Evangelical Agenda

How Birth Control Became Part of the Evangelical Agenda
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The Trump administration announced Friday that it would roll back the Affordable Care Act's mandate that employers cover workers' birth control. During the Obama administration, the initial wave of companies granted an exemption from the rule argued that paying into a plan that covered birth control would violate their religious beliefs. But the new normal in American health care looks to be a victory for the religious right, particularly evangelicals, the only religious group in which a majority opposed the mandate, according to a 2012 Public Religion Research Institute poll.

 

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