The birth control rollback is a win for religious freedom

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In August, I urged President Trump in these pages to follow through on his promise to end what is commonly called the “HHS mandate.” For more than six years, that regulation has threatened to force people and groups to provide insurance coverage in violation of their deeply held religious and moral beliefs. 

After living with that threat for so long, it is easy to forget what a shock that mandate was when it was first instituted. It represented a major departure from the consistent practice of the federal government to respect the conscience rights of everyone with religious or moral objections to controversial medical interventions. 

As my brother bishops explained at that time, this unprecedented move threatened not only our own religious institutions, but also the faithful in the pews, with having to act against their deeply held religious and moral beliefs. 

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