Nevada congressman Steven Horsford is co-sponsoring a bill to protect women's health, in response to last week's Supreme Court "Hobby Lobby" decision.
Horsford -- who represents Nevada's fourth congressional district, encompassing several counties in central Nevada -- says the bill would prohibit for-profit employers that maintain a group health plan for employees from using religious beliefs to deny coverage of contraception or any other health service required by federal law. The bill would keep in place the existing exemption in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 for religious employers such as churches, as well as accommodations for religious non-profit groups.
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