US administration has annulled an Obamacare provision that obliged employer health plans to pay for contraception, potentially stripping free birth control from millions of women. The rule allows employers and insurers to decline to provide birth control if doing so violates their religious beliefs or moral convictions. <br/><br/>The move extends to all commercial enterprises an exemption already given to religious institutions. According to a note published by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the ruling expands exemptions to protect moral convictions for certain entities and individuals whose health plans are subject to a mandate of contraceptive coverage under Obamacare. <br/><br/>Millions of American women who had the cost of contraception reimbursed could be affected by the decision.<br/>Rights groups and the American Civil Liberties Union threatened a lawsuit, but the White House called it a matter of religious freedom.