Actually, it’s called the First Amendment.

Via The Hill:

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) blasted the proposed amendment from Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that would exempt employers and insurers from covering healthcare procedures they object to on moral or religious grounds as a “radical departure from what we’ve always done in this country.”

“The Blunt amendment is a radical amendment,” Boxer said on MSNBC. “It would not only take away the ability of women to get contraception through their insurance but it would threaten every single essential healthcare service, every single preventive healthcare service, if your employer or your insurance company had a moral objection.”

The California Democrat suggested that employers or insurers could exploit the opt-out clause to effectively avoid providing care.

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