Obama shifts on birth control mandate after heavy criticism
President Obama retreated on Friday from his controversial healthcare rule requiring religious organizations such as charities and hospitals to include contraception coverage in their healthcare plans.
Obama described his compromise as a sensible approach in which employees who work for religious organizations that object to the use of birth control would be able to obtain contraception from the employer's insurer.
Obama shifts on birth control mandate after heavy criticism - TheHill.com
If it isn't about birth control, why are they calling it the birth control mandate?
You guys are not understanding how politically agressive the catholic church is.
Religious freedom, my butt.
I think now, obama is finally understanding how politically aggressively they will fight when under assault ...
as in chess... a bishop will always check and topple a king.
He underestimated them but I don't believe they can legally back completely out of the mandate. The church will fight certainly but there is another side to this issue.