Trump Administration Releases New Pro-Life Regulations

Jonathan Abbamonte
Population Research Institute

Last week, immediately following the election, the Trump administration released three new pro-life regulations to help protect the conscience rights of American families and employers when purchasing health insurance. Each is aimed at undoing Obama-era regulations that were put in place in pursuit of implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

The first two regulations seek to provide employers with religious and moral exemptions to the Obama-era "HHS Contraceptive Mandate." If implemented, the new rules would prevent the government from forcing religious employers to pay for abortifacient methods of contraception in their employer-sponsored health plans.

In addition, another rule released by HHS last week would undo a federal regulation that currently allows health insurance companies to collect premiums for abortion coverage and health care coverage together on the same bill. Under the ACA, the government is required to collect a "separate payment" for coverage of elective abortion but under the Obama administration, health plan issuers were permitted to collect both payments on the same bill.

Here is a summary of the new rules released by the Trump administration last week.

 

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