Tough Pill to Swallow: Whether Catholic Institutions Are Obligated Under Title VII to Cover Their Employees’ Prescription Contraceptives
Craig W. Mandell, 8 U. Md. L.J. Race, Religion, Gender & Class 199 (2008)
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In the last decade, many employers around the United States have felt an ever-increasing push by their employees to adopt group health plans that would provide coverage for prescription birth control. The exclusion of such birth control on health plans went largely unnoticed for years, and it wasn’t until a significant number of insurance plans decided to cover male “potency drugs” in the mid-1990s that interest groups became inspired to fight for female contraceptive coverage. It was not long before state legislatures responded favorably to this movement by enacting laws that required the inclusion of contraceptive drugs and devices in all comprehensive prescription drug plans. In the past ten years, over twenty-six states passed bills requiring insurance providers to cover prescription birth control
