Last Friday, the Trump administration took the next step in potentially putting a halt to hundreds of thousands of women's access to free birth control through their employer insurance.

The rule comes as an effort to consider employers rights if they don't want to offer contraceptives on the grounds of "sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions."

Republican House Speaker, Paul Ryan, described it as "a landmark day for religious liberty."

The point of this is not whether or not someone is religious, or whether or not they believe in contraceptive services, but the sheer consideration of the likely consequences.

It comes back to abortion, another debate the administration claims to be so against. Again, personal beliefs really don't apply to the principal of the matter here.

Rolling back the contraceptive mandate contradicts right-wing views on abortion. The potential consequences of this are unplanned pregnancies and more women seeking an abortion....so what's the point here? What would the administration rather have?

Since they're very pro-life, shouldn't they be willing to make efforts that lessen the number of women who would even be put in a situation where they consider abortion?

Apparently not.

Seems to me like another effort to simply erase any legacy the Obama administration left.

Not to mention the infliction upon other people's religious/non-religious beliefs. It's okay for religious beliefs to be upheld, but it's not okay to use them as a means to change government policies simply because it doesn't align with a certain religion.

The credibility of their stance is repeatedly undermined; if abortion or contraceptives will benefit them, they're all for it.

Where's the acknowledgement of recent anti-abortion republican Representative, Tim Murphy and his encouraging a mistress to end her pregnancy?

Enough said.