CUA Law Professor Mark Rienzi was quoted in an Oct. 6 Washington Post article entitled "Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate." He was also quoted in an article from The Blaze regarding the same topic. See below

Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate

From: The Washington Post
Date: Oct. 6, 2017
By: Juliet Eilperin, Amy Goldstein and William Wan

The Trump administration issued a rule Friday that sharply limits the Affordable Care Act's contraception coverage mandate, a move that could mean many American women would no longer have access to birth control free of charge.

The new regulation, issued by the Health and Human Services Department, allows a much broader group of employers and insurers to exempt themselves from covering contraceptives such as birth control pills on religious or moral grounds. The decision, anticipated from the Trump administration for months, is the latest twist in a seesawing legal and ideological fight that has surrounded this aspect of the 2010 health-care law nearly from the start.

Several religious groups, which battled the Obama administration for years over the controversial requirement, welcomed the action.

Women's rights organizations and some medical professionals portrayed it as a blow to women's health, warning that it could lead to a higher number of unintended pregnancies.

The rule change is among the recent moves by President Trump to dismantle initiatives enacted under the Obama administration. It fulfills a crucial promise Trump made as a candidate to appeal to social conservatives and that he repeated in May when he signed an executive order in the Rose Garden to expand religious liberty.

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The rule follows some social conservatives' increasing frustration with the pace at which the Trump administration has addressed their demands on issues such as the ACA contraception requirement. "An awful lot of people who voted for this president did so believing this was going to be something he would solve," said Mark Rienzi, senior counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, who hailed the rule as a correction of overly aggressive liberal actions under President Barack Obama. "There are other ways to get contraceptives. You don't need to force nuns to give people contraception."

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