Obama Birth Control

Religious Freedom

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2012

Jeff Danziger

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Catholic Institutions Say WHAT?

Elaine Vilorio | Posted 05.24.2012

Elaine Vilorio

I thought it ridiculous that Catholic dioceses, schools and organizations sued Obama over the mandate requiring most employers to include free birth control as part of their health insurance coverage.

Catholic Bishops Divided On Legal Battle Against Obama Birth Control Mandate

Religion News Service | David Gibson | Posted 05.23.2012

NEW YORK (RNS) The wave of lawsuits filed this week by more than 40 Catholic groups against the Obama administration's birth control mandate was meant...

Laura Bassett

University Drops Entire Student Health Plan Over Birth Control Rule

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.16.2012

Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic institution in Ohio, has decided to drop its entire student health insurance plan as of the fall sem...

Tea Party Rep: Obama Should 'Distance Himself' From Muslim Brotherhood

Posted 04.08.2012

U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, who was recently criticized for saying the national debate over birth control coverage is "not about women," issued a statement F...

Bishops Say Obama Compromise Is 'Unconstitutional'

Posted 04.04.2012

By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) The nation's Catholic bishops say the Obama administration's proposed revisions to a mandate that requ...

Tea Party Senator's Advice To Women Who Can't Afford Birth Control

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 03.27.2012

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) weighed into the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's birth control mandate this weekend, dismissing the concern...

Laura Bassett

Birth Control Access Boosts Women's Pay: Study

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.26.2012

While women still earn 77 cents for every dollar that men make in the United States, the gender wage gap has closed significantly over the past severa...

White House Proposal Gives Religious Groups More Say In Birth Control Mandate

Posted 03.20.2012

By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) The Obama administration is offering to expand the number of faith-based groups that can be exempt fro...

Obama Administration Lays Out Options On Birth Control

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.16.2012

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration signaled Friday it's willing to help insurance companies offset the cost of providing free birth control t...

Sandra Fluke and the Deborah Generation

Malika Saada Saar | Posted 05.15.2012

Malika Saada Saar

This Women's History Month marks the long-awaited emergence of a new post-Roe generation of women who are reframing the women's rights movement and discourse. March is, quite possibly, revealing the first stirrings of our own Women's Spring.

The Essence of Immorality

Cristina Page | Posted 05.14.2012

Cristina Page

If the Bishops insist there's no firewall great enough to protect them from our contraceptive activities, then they also must admit there's no firewall great enough to protect us from their religious activities.

I Was A Virgin On Birth Control

Nicole Neroulias | Posted 05.13.2012

Nicole Neroulias

As a religion reporter weary of oversimplified culture wars, and as someone who took birth control pills long before becoming sexually active, I feel disappointed by most of the reporting so far.

Rush Limbaugh -- Sluts, Prostitutes or Just a Pack of Lies?

Juliet Jeske | Posted 05.12.2012

Juliet Jeske

Rush Limbaugh might have finally gone too far. Attacking half of the adult population directly is not always the best game plan for winning over converts to his cause.

Friday Talking Points -- "Hands Off My Uterus!"

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.09.2012

Chris Weigant

They don't wear funny hats any more, but there still sure are a lot of Puritans in this country these days. It wouldn't surprise me if you told me some red state is going to force every woman who gets birth control to wear a scarlet letter.

Elise Foley

Pollster: There's No Democrat Conspiracy On Sandra Fluke

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.10.2012

Pollster Celinda Lake responded on Friday to the rumblings of conservative commentators who claim the Obama administration planted Georgetown law stud...

Nation's Top Catholic Says Contraception Talks Are 'Going Nowhere'; White House Says Talks Under Control

Posted 03.08.2012

By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) The Obama administration is rejecting charges by the nation's top Catholic bishop that talks to modify...

Bachmann Sounds Dire Warning About Contraception Mandate

Posted 03.07.2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) warned Tuesday that President Barack Obama's contraception mandate requiring most religiously-affiliated employers' he...

John Celock

New Hampshire Lawmakers Repeal Contraception Coverage

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.07.2012

Saying it would reduce health insurance costs, the Tea Party-controlled New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday afternoon to re...

Laura Bassett

Susan B. Anthony List Says Rick Santorum Boosted By Birth Control Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.07.2012

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum had a stronger than expected showing on Super Tuesday, defeating frontrunner Mitt Romney in Tennessee,...

Sandra Fluke Responds To Limbaugh's Apology

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 03.05.2012

Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law school student at the heart of the debate over contraception, dismissed Rush Limbaugh's apology for callin...

Sam Stein

Obama Calls Sandra Fluke

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.02.2012

President Obama on Friday placed a call to Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law school student at the heart of the debate over the contraceptio...

Boehner Responds To Limbaugh's Explosive Comments

Posted 03.02.2012

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) pushed back Friday against Rush Limbaugh's inflammatory comments about Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke. "Th...

Why Our Blunt Narrative Doesn't Win

Eric Sapp | Posted 05.01.2012

Eric Sapp

By making contraception only about women's health, we're telling voters contraception decisions are not about parents, not about men, and not about families.

You Don't Have a Right to Force Other People to Pay for Your Birth Control

John Hawkins | Posted 04.30.2012

John Hawkins

Look, I don't really give a sh*t what you do with your life, and I want government out of my bedroom as much as the next female of child-bearing age. ...