Obama Birth Control Mandate

Catholic Institutions Say WHAT?

Elaine Vilorio | Posted 05.24.2012

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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.

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Thousands Sign Petition For Apology Bishop Who Compared Obama To Hitler

Posted 05.10.2012

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An online religious community has collected 23,000 signatures demanding an apology from the Peoria bishop who compared President Barack Obama's polici...

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Notre Dame Faculty Call For Bishop Who Compared Obama To Hitler To Resign From Board

Posted 04.20.2012

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Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky is continuing to feel the heat for a sermon in which he preached that President Obama's policies were following a 'simila...

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Catholic Bishop: Obama On 'Similar Path' As Hitler, Stalin

Posted 05.15.2012

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A downstate Illinois Catholic bishop has come under fire after he said in a message at St. Mary's Cathedral in Peoria that President Barack Obama is o...

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

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 03.27.2012

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

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Chicago Pro-Life Group Protests Birth Control Coverage

Posted 03.23.2012

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Chicago pro-life and religious groups are planning a protest at Federal Plaza Friday as part of a national day of action to voice objections to the ne...

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Laura Bassett

Catholic Bishops Find Birth Control 'Inexpensive'

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- As part of their intensely focused effort to repeal the Obama administration's new contraception coverage policy, the U.S. Conference of...

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

Posted 03.08.2012

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

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Bachmann Sounds Dire Warning About Contraception Mandate

Posted 03.07.2012

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

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No Birth Control? Better Start the Sex Savings Account

Heather Buchanan | Posted 05.02.2012

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Heather Buchanan

If not birth control, what are the options? Do we wish to regress to the rhythm method? If men can't even remember their anniversaries, how are they supposed to keep their partner's monthly ovulation calendar in their mind?

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Laura Bassett

Contentious Contraception Measure Fails

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.01.2012

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The Senate voted on Thursday 51 to 48 to reject a controversial amendment sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that would have overridden the Obama Adm...

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Laura Bassett

Blunt Amendment Debate Recalls Memories Of Walmart Contraception Case

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.29.2012

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Proponents of Sen. Roy Blunt's (R-Mo.) amendment to the Senate transportation bill, which would override President Obama's contraception coverage rule...

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Laura Bassett

Blunt Amendment Is 'Desperate' GOP Election Strategy, Senate Dems Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.24.2012

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After President Obama offered a compromise to his birth control coverage rule, which would allow faith-based organizations to opt out of covering the ...

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Laura Bassett

Newt Gingrich Calls Obama An 'Extremist' Who Supported 'Infanticide'

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.23.2012

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The Republican presidential candidates Wednesday night, during a GOP debate in Arizona, took shots at President Barack Obama for his pro-choice histor...

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John Celock

GOP Lawmaker Seeks To Make Birth Control 'Obsolete And Outdated'

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.22.2012

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A Republican lawmaker in New Hampshire has proposed repealing the state's requirement to provide insurance coverage for birth control by attaching the...

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Laura Bassett

Former Bush Official Files Suit Against Birth Control Rule

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.22.2012

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Jim Towey, the former director of George W. Bush’s Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives, slapped that same office with a federal lawsuit an...

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Cardinal Doubles Down Against Obama's Birth Control Mandate

Posted 02.19.2012

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Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George, back in town after a visit to Rome, has doubled down on his contempt for the Obama administration's call f...

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Republicans Attack Obama's Health Care Overhaul Over Contentious Issue

AP | By JOHN MILLER | Posted 02.18.2012

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BOISE, Idaho -- Republican lawmakers in a handful of states are opening another front in the war against President Obama's health care overhaul, seizi...

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John Celock

GOP Lawmaker's Suggestion For Married Couples' Contraception

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.17.2012

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A New Hampshire lawmaker with a history of surprising statements suggested on Thursday that married couples who want to use contraception should pract...

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Jennifer Bendery

Pelosi Rips GOP Over Birth Control: I May Be "Moved To Explain Biology To My Colleagues"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 02.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday ripped House Republicans for holding a contentious hearing on birth control th...

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Laura Bassett

Catholic Leadership Splinters Over Obama Birth Control Compromise

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.16.2012

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When President Barack Obama first announced the federal rule requiring most faith-based employers to pay for contraception health coverage, most Roman...

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The Birth Control Debate That Isn't Happening

Margie Omero | Posted 04.16.2012

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Margie Omero

It's 2012, but to hear the Right talk about birth control, and "emotional" women in the workforce and the military, one might think we're trapped in Downton Abbey's 1914.

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The Illiberality of ObamaCare

Michael F. Cannon | Posted 04.15.2012

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Michael F. Cannon

The non-compromise Obama floated does not reduce by one penny the amount of money he would force Catholics to spend on contraception. Worse, this mandate is just one manifestation of how the president's health care law will grind up the freedom of every American.

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Laura Bassett

Republicans Slam Obama Birth Control Rule, Ignoring State Contraception Mandates

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.13.2012

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One side effect of the outpouring of Republican outrage over President Barack Obama's new birth control insurance coverage rule is that some GOP lawma...

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Friday Talking Points -- White House Fumbles

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.11.2012

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Chris Weigant

No matter what you think of the administration's decision on birth control, I think we can all agree that it was handled extremely badly from the get-go. This is not the way to roll out a contentious policy, guys and gals.

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