Harrisburg, Pa., Dec 14, 2018 / 21:01 pm
New rules are set to ensure strong religious exemptions to federal mandates requiring employer health care plans to provide birth control coverage, but Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro's legal challenge could derail them.
"Families rely on the Affordable Care Act's guarantee to afford care," Shapiro said Dec. 14. "Congress hasn't changed the law, and the president can't simply ignore it with an illegal rule."
He filed an amended complaint Friday challenging the Trump administration's final religious exemption rules, set to take effect Jan. 14, 2019. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal joined the complaint, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
Shapiro's complaint makes several claims, including charges that the new rules violate the separation of church and state and allow employers to discriminate on the basis of sex.