California sues over Trump administration’s rollback of birth control mandate

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Friday sued the Trump administration, arguing that its rollback of an Affordable Care Act requirement for employers to provide contraceptive coverage to workers is unconstitutional and unlawfully targets women.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, comes hours after the Department of Health and Human Services on Friday issued a rule change that allows more employers to opt out of the ACA birth control mandate by claiming religious or moral objections.

Prior to this rule change, only houses of worship, religiously affiliated nonprofits and some private companies with few shareholders, such as Hobby Lobby, could opt out of providing birth control coverage by seeking what’s known as an “accommodation” — a workaround in which the health insurance company rather than the employer pays for the contraception, but women still get access to birth control.

Creepy California in the news.