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Restricting women’s access to birth control hurts everyone.  It hurts women by limiting their ability to get an education or become self-sufficient, and risks their health when they can’t plan or space their pregnancies.  It hurts children born into families not ready or able to care for them. And it hurts families by robbing them of the ability to decide whether and when to have a child.

That is why independent physicians, nurses, and other health professionals agree that providing access to contraception is good medical and economic policy.  And yet â€" surprisingly â€" birth control is under attack.  Anti-women groups, and some members of Congress, are pressuring the Administration to roll back some of provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  The ACA guarantees access to important preventive health services without expensive co-pays.  This includes contraception for women.  But if anti-women forces get their way, thousands of employers will be ! allowed to refuse to cover contraceptives in their employer-sponsored health plans.  These forces are attempting to directly interfere with the individual health needs of millions of women by limiting the type of care they can get.

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