HHS Plan To Exempt Employers From Birth-Control Mandate Threatens IUD Sales

An HHS draft proposal to broaden the "religious and moral objections" exemption from an Affordable Care Act rule mandating that employers cover employees' contraceptive use in health care plans, threatens US sales of intrauterine devices (IUDs), which total more than $1bn annually.

Young doctor holding an IUD birth control copper coil device in hand, used for contraception
Copper-based IUD • Source: Shutterstock

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