Demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court on March 23, 2016, the day of arguments in the case Zubik v. Burwell, which challenges the Health and Human Services Contraception Mandate on behalf of religious nonprofit organizations. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
A federal appeals court has upheld a nationwide injunction that blocked the Trump administration from enacting certain religious and moral exceptions to the Affordable Care Act that have been widely seen as a means to roll back the mandate for covering birth control medications.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled July 12 to uphold a decision from January that barred the federal government from enforcing a version of the ACA that allowed for greatly expanded exceptions to the requirement that companies help cover the cost of contraceptives.
