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A federal judge has blocked a rule from the first term of the Trump administration that provided broad exemptions to religious employers who don't want to offer health insurance coverage for birth control as required by the Affordable Care Act.

U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, an Obama appointee, issued the ruling on Wednesday in the case of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and State of New Jersey v. Donald Trump, et al.

The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic order of nuns dedicated to charity that had its challenge of the contraceptive mandate heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in the past, was a defendant-intervenor in the case.

Beetlestone concluded that the religious exemption rules adopted by the U.S. Department of Health an

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