The Obama administration on Friday moved ahead with plans to require most employer health insurance to cover birth control without copayments, but gave religious employers an extra year to make the change.
The administration declined to loosen or scrap the requirement altogether, despite a chorus of complaints in recent months from religious groups. As part of the 2010 health overhaul, insurance plans for most Americans starting in August will have to cover all forms of contraception approved by the Food and Drug Administration without copayments or deductibles for policyholders.
Last year, the administration made an exemption for a small number of religious employers, such as churches, if contraception violates their religious tenets. That exemption remained unchanged in the new version, but schools, hospitals and charities run by religious groups have said they are unlikely to qualify for an exemption.
According to Wikipedia, there are over 68 million Catholics in the United States. Why go out of your way to alienate one out of every five Americans in an election year?
Nearly ALL of the Catholic Women are on birth control. It is the very definition of "Cafeteria Catholic".
ReplyDeleteIf Catholics are truly against abortion, how can they be against contraception? Unless they are really just anti-woman?? Hmmmm.