Last week, a Pennsylvania federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s rules that would have enabled employers to stop providing contraception insurance coverage for “religious or moral” reasons citing that the “Commonwealth [of Pennsylvania] is likely to suffer serious and irreparable harm” if he doesn’t block it.”
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro took the Little Sisters of the Poor to court, suing them in order to take away the sisters’ religious exemption from the prior Health and Human Services rule. California’s attorney general has done the same. In early October, HHS issued a new rule that protects the Little Sisters of the Poor and other faith-based nonprofit organizations from providing services in their healthcare plan that violate their faith, such as the week-after pill.
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