The Obama administration’s requirement that health insurance plans cover birth control has provoked a full-blown Republican firestorm over religious liberty. But the policy itself carves out an exemption for churches and doesn’t require any individual or employer to violate a religious belief — it simply ensures that their employees with different beliefs have the same access to birth control as all other women.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=101706