The Next Birth Control Battle: Religious Exemptions

[MrScorpio]

We got excited this week about the Obama administration accepting guidelines for private insurance to eliminate contraceptive co-pays. It's still good news, but there's always a catch: It only applies to new health insurance plans, and antichoicers are predictably making a stink, not only about the all-but-certain rise in babykilling whorishness this will induce, but about what it means for their own insurance plans.
Although the policy principally affects new insurance plans starting August 1, 2012, according to Guttmacher, plans grandfathered in will lose that status in a few years.

According to a Thompson Reuters study, no-copay birth control is extremely popular, with 77 percent of Americans believing that private medical insurance should provide it.

In the remaining minority: Some very loud, misinformed people. Some of them intentionally lying.



As of this writing, Fox News' headline is still carrying this inaccurate headline, "White House: Insurers Must Cover Abortion Pill," which in turn is a syndication of this inaccurate Washington Times story, called out by Media Matters. (Media Matters called it an op-ed, but it's worse — it's classified as a "news" story.) Bizarrely, not only is an abortion-inducing drug, RU-486, not covered under the guidelines, the actual story indicates that it doesn't. Illiterate headline-writing or deliberate distortion?

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