These rules are just one example of the Trump administration’s attempts to misuse religious freedom to deny reproductive health care to millions of people.

Access to safe, affordable birth control is a vital part of Americans’ health care. It must not be blocked due to religious objections.

Americans United raised the alarm that the unprecedented attacks on reproductive rights this year were directly linked to efforts to undermine church-state separation. Religious beliefs often are used to justify regressive reproductive policies such as the abortion bans that were proposed in several states and the Trump administration’s rules that would allow employers and universities to use religion to deny employees and students access to birth control.