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Trump Limits Access to Free Birth Control

07/10/2017 GMT

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US Employers will be allowed to opt out of providing free contraception.

The Trump administration has announced new rules that could deprive around sixty million American women access to free contraception, Zimbabwe's First Lady, Grace Mugabe, accuses allies of the country's vice president of plotting a coup and the Draconid meteor shower.

(Photo: 3rd generation contraceptive pills. Credit: PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images)

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