A federal judge in Texas strikes down ACA preventive care rule, putting millions of Americans at risk of losing access to critical health care.
Homophobia also played a large role in Thursday’s decision. O’Connor sided with religious plaintiffs who argued that they should not have to cover PrEP and birth control, writing that “the PrEP mandate substantially burdens the religious exercise” of the plaintiffs. Though the mandate for insurerswill remain for now, O’Connor found merit in claims made by the plaintiffs, who argued that their religious beliefs were infringed by these requirements.
O’Connor summarized their argument as such: “The preventive care mandates requiring compulsory coverage for those services violates their religious beliefs by making them complicit in facilitating homosexual behavior, drug use, and sexual activity outside of marriage between one man and one woman as a condition of purchasing health insurance.”“I anticipated this decision in September when O’Connor first telegraphed it. It is nothing short of catastrophic to the U.S.
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