Birth Control Under Attack

Our community worked incredibly hard to ensure that women were protected under health care reform, and that meant making sure birth control was covered by the insurance companies. Some employers, like churches, were allowed to opt-out of this requirement for religious reasons.

But now some want to expand the opt-out rule to include a huge number of so-called "religious employers" that could result in nearly three million workers and students losing access to birth control.

Let's be clear: just because your employer's health insurance covers birth control doesn't mean you have to use it, any more than you have to get a root canal every year just because it's covered by your dental insurance. This is about women having free and fair choices.