Amid mounting political and legal tension, the White House on Friday rolled out a new rule to guarantee that female employees will have access to birth control even with religious employers who refuse to include it in the insurance policies.

Religious companies that refuse to provide birth control in employees' insurance will have to register their objections with the government, in which case, the federal government shall provide the birth control coverage for the employees.

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In a statement released by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, she said female employees across the United States deserve access to contraceptive services that are beneficial for their health, regardless of their workplace.

Burwell added that the Obama administration's announcement strengthened the Human and Health Services' aim of providing women nationwide access to birth control services while accommodating religious concerns of the employers.

The policy is the administration's latest effort to maintain a provision in President Obama's Affordable Care Act, which stipulated that all business must offer the contraceptive coverage to its female employees.

In June, the Supreme Court revised the mandate and ruled that some religious businesses may opt out of providing such coverage if it goes against the company's beliefs.

However, even with the court's ruling, several religious nonprofit organizations and companies are still not satisfied.

These organizations argued that their beliefs will still be violated even if they voice out their objections to the government, because they will only be transferring the responsibility to another entity.

Lori Windham of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty told the Baltimore Sun that the government is "confusing the issues."

Windham represents Little Sisters of the Poor, in a lawsuit regarding the rule.

"The government issued over 70 pages of regulations, when all it needed to do was read the First Amendment," Windham said.

 The White House new rule was brought about by a ruling that the Supreme Court made in July, which provided exemptions to companies and organizations who were not in favor with the health care mandate.

The Supreme Court's exemption came following an incident with Wheaton Collage, when the Christian school rejected the health care, birth control provision, stating that it was not an answer to their religious concerns.

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