California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a motion Thursday to put a stop to President Donald Trump’s decision to protect employers of faith and moral convictions from the Obama-era contraceptive mandate.
Becerra joins the attorneys general of the states of Delaware, Maryland, New York, and Virginia to request a preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The motion is part of a larger lawsuit against the Trump administration that claims the reversal of the mandate is unconstitutional and harms women.
We just filed for a national injunction to block the Trump admin’s attempt to deny birth control access to millions of women in New York and across the country. #Fight4BirthControl #HandsOffMyBC pic.twitter.com/ddSpvqRZXR
— NY AG Underwood (@NewYorkStateAG) November 10, 2017
I have filed suit challenging Trump’s rollback of the contraception coverage rule that has saved 1.6 million VA women an avg. of $255/year. pic.twitter.com/Zn8yASox24
— Mark Herring (@MarkHerringVA) November 2, 2017
“The Trump administration has no business putting employers in the position of preventing women from accessing contraceptives,” said California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, according to the Chronicle. “It’s not too long ago that women were asked routinely in job interviews if they used contraceptives and when they planned to have children — we will not go back to those days.”
California, however, is one of eight states that have passed laws mandating employer-based health plans to provide free birth control to workers. Passed in 2014, the Contraceptive Coverage Equity Act covers Medicaid health plans and requires multiple methods of contraception to be covered by insurance.
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