President Barack Obama-Abrupt Policy Shift-Free Birth Control

Obama shift seeks to defuse birth-control fight

President Barack Obama talks about providing states flexibility under reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama, in an abrupt policy shift aimed at quelling an election-year firestorm, announced on Friday that religious employers would not be required to offer free birth control to workers and the onus would instead be put on insurers. But Catholic Church leaders and Obama's Republican opponents, who had railed against the Democratic president's new rule on contraceptives as a violation of religious freedom, signaled that divisions remain over the hot-button social issue. ... read more..

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Birth Control-Barack Obama

AP Source: Obama to change birth control rule

President Barack Obama will announce a plan to accommodate religious employers outraged by a rule that would require them to cover Birth Control for women free of charge, according to a person familiar with the decision. read more..

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