Sentences with phrase «free contraceptives»

CNN: Key Catholic group drops support for White House contraception plan The Obama administration's key Catholic ally on its controversial plan to require health insurers to provide free contraceptive coverage is dropping support for the plan, potentially complicating the president's relations with Catholics in an election year.

(CNN)- The Roman Catholic Church announced a major campaign Thursday aimed at bringing attention to what it said were growing threats to religious liberty in the United States, including the pending White House rule requiring health insurance companies to provide free contraceptive coverage to employees of Catholic organizations.

People should also not assume that getting free contraceptives is a minor issue, as if any female desiring it can afford it.

The mandate for free contraceptive coverage was one of the most contested polices under the Affordable Care Act and generated many lawsuits by employers that cited religious objections.

In Sweden, for example, an increase in affordable access to contraception and the presence of free contraceptive counseling have paralleled a substantial increase in the teen abortion rate.

(Women who are denied coverage for free contraceptives from their Catholic employer, by the way, are not forced to behave immorally.

Religious liberty Many conservatives are livid over the Obama administration's requirement that health insurers offer free contraceptive coverage, even for employees of Catholic institutions.

For example, those who want to redefine marriage or require employers to provide free contraceptives claim that there aren't any «real» moral arguments standing in the way.

But I do think the administration should find a way to make free contraceptive access possible to Catholic women without stepping on their doctrine, however medieval it is.

In a statement, Cuomo pointed to state regulations announced in January that includes cost - free contraceptive services and requires insurers to cover all medically necessary abortions.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, meanwhile, pointed to a bill he introduced that would provide cost - free contraceptives set in law.

As the prospect began to sink in of losing access to free contraceptives if the health law is repealed or replaced, women have reportedly been racing to get IUDs or stockpile birth control pills before President Barack Obama leaves office.

Getting free contraceptives is not a right.

(CNN)-- The Obama administration's key Catholic ally on its controversial plan to require health insurers to provide free contraceptive coverage is dropping support for the plan, potentially complicating the president's relations with Catholics in an election year.

CNN: After contraception controversy, Catholic Church announces religious freedom campaign The Roman Catholic Church announced a major campaign Thursday aimed at bringing attention to what it said were growing threats to religious liberty in the United States, including the pending White House rule requiring health insurance companies to provide free contraceptive coverage to employees of Catholic organizations.

By providing everyone with access to education and free contraceptives.

The Affordable Care Act mandates that employers offer and individuals buy insurance that provides free contraceptives, abortion - inducing drugs, and sterilization.

I kind of drifted off target here but I feel that it is important to help our young people to understand that s - ex is not okay until they are ready for it, and no amount of education or free contraceptives are going to change that.

Note the conceit: Employees at Catholic (or other similarly informed religious institutions) are «coerced» by not having free contraceptives provided as part of their health plans.

This is just so typical of the Obama administration and his cheerleaders to invent the notion that people have a right to FREE contraceptives, while usurping an essential right of others to freedom of conscience.

In simple terms, a fellow catholic who does not believe in using contraceptive would have to pay more money to get the same insurance coverage that he has been getting in order for somebody else to get free contraceptives.

And do you think he would approve of sacrificing unwanted babies, drug use, creating more poverty, lying to get elected, free contraceptives, and voting based on skin color?

Members then passed the Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act, which would require all health insurers provide cost - free contraceptive coverage as a part of their insurance policies, by a similar margin.

Now Limbaugh has stuck his foot in his mouth again as he called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a «slut» and «prostitute» for backing a plan that would require employers and insurers to provide free contraceptives, reports the Philadelphia Daily News.

Among women in the free contraceptive program, the teen birth rate was 6.3 per 1,000 women, a huge difference from the national teen birth rate of 34.3 per 1,000 women.