Did the ACA require catholic hospitals and universities to physically hand-out birth control?
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20120207/US.Birth.Control.Politics/?cid=hero_media
AP sources: Obama revamping birth control policy
Retreating in the face of a political uproar, President Barack Obama on Friday will announce that religious employers will not have to cover birth control for their employees after all, The Associated Press has learned. The administration instead will demand that insurance companies will be the ones directly responsible for providing free contraception.
Obama's abrupt shift is an attempt to satisfy both sides of a deeply sensitive debate, and most urgently, to end a mounting election-year nightmare for the White House.
Women will still get guaranteed access to birth control without co-pays or premiums no matter where they work, a provision of Obama's health care law that he insisted must remain.
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"But religious universities and hospitals that see contraception as an unconscionable violation of their faith can refuse to cover it, and insurance companies will then have to step in to do so."
WTF? I thought it was the insurance companies providing the service to begin with. I thought the hypocritical outrage by the catholic church was based on them having to provide INSURANCE that covers these services.
