Second Judge Blocks Trump Birth Control Policy Across The Country

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January 14th, 2019

In this 2014 photo, demonstrators react to hearing the Supreme Court’s decision on the Hobby Lobby birth control case outside the Supreme Court in Washington. A judge in California has blocked implementation of a Trump administration policy that would let more employers decline to offer birth control coverage on religious or moral grounds.

Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP

Updated at 5:58 p.m. ET

A federal judge in Pennsylvania has blocked the Trump administration from implementing a rule allowing employers to decline to offer contraceptive coverage on moral or religious grounds.

U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone in Philadelphia imposed a nationwide injunction Monday which has wider effect than a similar ruling issued Sunday by a federal judge in California.

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