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Catholic Bishops Want Entire Birth Control Rule Repealed, Not Just the Religious Exemption

Posted from Political Mojo | Mother Jones 100 days ago

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the national political lobby for the Catholic Church in America, has been waging war on President Barack Obama's new rule requiring health insurers to cover birth control at no cost to women. The religious exemption in the Obama rule allows churches an exemption to birth control coverage, but still requires religiously affiliated schools and hospitals to provide insurance to their employees that includes contraception without a co-payment. The bishops claim that exemption is too narrow. But they don't just want the religious exemption widened. They want... (original story)