{"id":86260,"date":"2017-11-06T13:34:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=86260"},"modified":"2017-11-05T22:46:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T03:46:22","slug":"schneiderman-sues-to-protect-new-yorkers-access-to-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=86260","title":{"rendered":"Schneiderman sues to protect New Yorkers’ access to birth control"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Coalition Of AGs Join Federal Lawsuit, Arguing That New Trump Rules Discriminate Against Female Employees<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Over 62.4 Million Women Have Benefitted From ACA Contraceptive Coverage, Including 3.8 Million New Yorkers<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Schneiderman: If A Woman Can\u2019t Control Her Own Body, She Isn\u2019t Truly Free<\/em><\/p>\n

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman joined a federal lawsuit to protect New Yorkers\u2019 access to birth control, following new Trump administration rules that would deny contraceptive access by allowing employers to interfere with women\u2019s healthcare choices.<\/p>\n

Attorney General Schneiderman, along with the Attorneys General of California, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia,\u00a0filed an amended complaint<\/a>\u00a0with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration\u2019s new rules seek to roll back the contraceptive coverage mandate under the Affordable Care Act. Since the ACA\u2019s requirement to cover contraceptives took effect in 2012, it\u2019s saved American women $1.4 billion. Over 62.4 million women have benefitted from the coverage, including 3.8 million in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trump administration believes that a woman\u2019s boss is better suited than the woman is to make her own healthcare decisions. These new rules are unconstitutional \u2013 and we\u2019re taking them to court to protect New Yorkers\u2019 basic right to reproductive health care,\u201d said\u00a0Attorney General Schneiderman. \u201cIf a woman can\u2019t control her own body, she isn\u2019t truly free. With men in Washington doing whatever they can to undermine women\u2019s freedom and equality, I\u2019ll do everything in my power to fight back and protect New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Attorneys General argue that the federal rules violate the Establishment Clause by allowing employers to use their own religious beliefs to discriminate against employees; the Equal Protection Clause by specifically targeting and harming women; and the Administrative Procedure Act by pushing through these new rules without required notice and comment, and without proper factual and legal basis. Additionally, the Attorneys General argue that the rules would cause immediate and irreparable harm to their States by leaving millions of women without access to contraceptives and counseling, and by forcing the States to shoulder the financial and administrative burden as women seek contraceptive access through state programs.<\/p>\n

New\u00a0 York has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancy in the nation, and the risk of unintended pregnancy is greatest among the most vulnerable women. While New York has some regulations to protect contraceptive access, they do not apply to self-funded insurance plans, which are governed by federal law and regulated by the federal government. Therefore, as a result of the Trump administration\u2019s new rules, the nearly 1.2 million New York women covered by self-funded employer plans may be forced to seek state-funded access (a cost that would be borne by New York) or forego contraceptive care altogether.<\/p>\n

In January,\u00a0Attorney General Schneiderman introduced the Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act<\/a>, which would protect and enhance New Yorkers\u2019 access to cost-free contraception, no matter what happens in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coalition Of AGs Join Federal Lawsuit, Arguing That New Trump Rules Discriminate Against Female Employees\u00a0 Over 62.4 Million Women Have Benefitted From ACA Contraceptive Coverage, Including 3.8 Million New Yorkers\u00a0 Schneiderman: If A Woman Can\u2019t Control Her Own Body, She Isn\u2019t Truly Free New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman joined a federal lawsuit to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}