Massachusetts law on insured birth control is similar to US rule set by Barack Obama
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has accused President Obama of attacking religious freedom because of a federal mandate requiring insurers to cover contraception. But Romney, who overhauled the Massachusetts health care system, did not change an almost identical mandate in Massachusetts.
Governor Romney never expressed any concern about the mandate, never mentioned that it would infringe upon religious freedoms, said Phil Johnston, who was Massachusetts secretary of human services under Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis, in a phone call yesterday with reporters organized by the Democratic National Committee. During the years that Governor Romney served, he was totally silent about that issue.
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