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Is This the End of Free Birth Control?

A draft rule suggests the Trump administration will let most companies stop covering birth control. Will they?
Source: Rich Pedroncelli / AP

According to a draft regulation leaked to Vox this week, all of the IUD preppers might have been onto something. After the election, liberal women took to the internet in droves to warn each other to get the long-acting contraceptive devices, free under Obamacare but pricey otherwise, implanted while they still could. If the draft federal rule is implemented, that option could be going away for some women soon: Their employers would soon be allowed to stop covering birth control entirely.

The Affordable Care Act made it so that

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