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It not only speaks to what you said, it proves you wrong.1) This speaks to nothing I said in what you quoted.
2) Your link is about Medicaid, not a mandate on employers.
3) It's a state issue and entirely unlike Obamacare.
4) It's about female fertility drugs, not "birth control."
The state mandates came in response to and after the 1998 Viagra mandate. Scroll down to show all the dates of the state mandates and find they are all after the 1998 Viagra mandate...
Insurance Coverage for Contraception State Laws
Birth control pills are classified with fertility drugs because they control the menstral cycle to help doctors time the effectiveness of the fertility drugs and prevent cysts from forming before and after.....
"Birth control pills are commonly used by fertility specialists to help schedule and coordinate treatment cycles. For example, at IVF1, our in-vitro fertilization (IVF) patients are grouped together. A group will start treatment every two weeks. If a woman has her period begin more than a few days before a start date, she will be placed on birth control pills for up to two weeks. This prevents eggs from developing and allows us to start her treatment at any time.
Birth control pills can also be used to prevent problems with other medications. For example, Lupron® is a medication used to suppress the pituitary gland and therefore prevent ovulation while using medication to prepare the uterus or stimulate the development of multiple eggs. One side effect of Lupron® is the potential for ovarian cysts to develop when it is started. Using birth control pills before and during the early use of Lupron® will prevent cysts from forming."......read
Q&A: Can birth control pills be used in fertility treatment? | BabyZone