WASHINGTON, D.C.: US President Donald Trump’s administration annulled on Friday (Saturday in Manila) an Obamacare provision that obliged employer health plans to pay for contraception, potentially stripping free birth control from millions of women.

The move extends to all commercial enterprises an exemption already given to religious institutions.

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