MI HR0400

Memorializes Congress to enact legislation prohibiting for-profit employers from using religious beliefs to deny employees coverage for contraception or other federally-required health services.

Opposes the Supreme Court's Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision, which allowed closely held for-profit corporations to refuse contraception coverage based on religious objections under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Asserts that birth control is basic health care, noting 99% of sexually active women use it at least once and approximately 650 women die annually in the U.S. from pregnancy-related complications.

Argues that contraception coverage affordability removes financial barriers for lower-income women and is connected to women's educational achievement and workplace success.

References the Protect Women's Health From Corporate Interference Act of 2014 (H.R. 5051 and S. 2578) as model legislation and directs transmission of the resolution to the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, and Michigan's congressional delegation.