Brown And Warren Do Battle Over Contraception Mandate

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Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) and his Democratic challenger, former White House financial reform adviser Elizabeth Warren, are continuing to duke it out over the Obama administration’s contraception mandates on health insurance, and the Republican bill to create a moral-conviction exemption in response.

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Brown

I support a bipartisan bill in the Senate that provides a conscience exemption in health care for people of faith. The bill restores the relevant laws on conscience protection that existed before ObamaCare removed them. Some critics say the bill is overly broad and would permit non-religious employers to drop health coverage on a whim. But this is a red herring - the bill does not allow employers to do anything that was not already permitted under federal law as it existed prior to ObamaCare. In fact, the only people talking about dropping health insurance are religious-affiliated organizations that would rather pay a fine than submit to federal rules that would cause them to violate their beliefs.

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Warren

What does this mean? If you are married and your employer doesn’t believe married couples should use birth control, then you could lose coverage for contraception. If you’re a pregnant woman who is single, and your employer doesn’t like it, you could be denied maternity care. This bill is about how to cut coverage for basic health care services for women.

Let’s be clear what this proposed law is not about: This is not about Catholic institutions or the rights of Catholics to follow their faith. President Obama has already made sure religious institutions will not be forced to cover contraception - at the same time that he has made sure women can get the health care they need directly from their health care insurers. Carol Keehan, the president and CEO of Catholic Health Association, said that Obama’s approach “protects the religious liberty and conscience rights of Catholic institutions.”

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[yellowcanine]

1. Brown will lose that argument in Massachusetts.

[Marrah_G]

2. Brown is a fucking fool to take up that fight here

I would bet my bottom dollar that his daughters are both on the pill and his wife probably has been in the past. He is mistakenly thinking that he got votes last time by being a social conservative.

He will lose this election.