NOW: “Tell HHS: No Religious Exemption for Birth Control Coverage”

    NOW has distributed an email encouraging readers to oppose religious exemptions from birth control insurance coverage. It provides in part: “Opponents of women’s access to contraception have stepped up pressure on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to expand an exemption allowing some religious institutions to deny birth control insurance coverage to their employees. This exemption should not have been included in the HHS rules in the first place. But religious extremists are lobbying hard to convince HHS to completely remove the requirement for full insurance coverage of contraception from the new regulations. This would be a huge loss for women.”


  • Posted: 09/23/2011
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  • Category: Religious Freedom

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