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Posts Tagged Religious Freedom Restoration Act

VIDEO: Catholic PAC releases ad for Blunt Amendment

By | 02.28.12 | 8:31 am

A Catholic political action committee has released a video ad asking supporters to call upon lawmakers to pass an amendment that would roll back a recent decision by the Obama administration requiring insurance providers — with the exception of religious employers — to cover birth control as a preventive service. Critics say the amendment will allow an insurance company to exclude coverage of any health service that they deem violates their religious or moral convictions.

Mother Jones: Rubio’s bill ‘could cut off birth control coverage for millions’

By | 02.09.12 | 12:41 pm

Mother Jones reports that Sen. Marco Rubio’s legislative response to a federal decision requiring health insurers to cover contraception as a preventive service “could cut off birth control coverage for millions of women who receive it through their health plans.”

Health secretary disputes claims that birth control decision disrespects religion

By | 02.06.12 | 4:19 pm

In an op-ed printed in USA Today yesterday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius takes on accusations that a recent federal decision requiring health insurers to cover contraception as a preventive service is an attack on religious groups.

Twenty senators join Rubio’s effort to overturn federal birth control decision

By | 02.02.12 | 10:35 am

Twenty U.S. senators have endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio’s effort to reverse a recent decision by the Obama administration to require that insurance providers — with the exception of religious employers — cover birth control as a preventive service, according to Rubio’s office.

Rubio introduces bill to overturn federal birth control decision

By | 01.31.12 | 5:05 pm

The Hill is reporting that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has introduced a bill that would roll back a recent decision by the Obama administration to require that insurance providers — with the exception of religious employers — cover birth control as a preventive service. Rubio is among a small group of legislators that receives money from a Catholic group that has been opposed to the mandate for some time.

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