White House to Announce ‘Accommodation’ for Religious Organizations on Contraception Rule

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27. You can't

You think they're gonna let this baby go? They've already move the bar by declaring that catholic EMPLOYERS shouldn't be required to provide these services. They've got a hot button issue that fires up the base. They're not gonna let go.

Might as well take the fire, and let them alienate more of the voting population. Clearly make the case that the church is being rather hypocritical on this issue because most states already are forcing Catholic institutions to comply, and they are. It's merely a federalization of what's already going on. Reasonable people won't care, the rest will never be convinced.

What's being proposed, the churches can do for themselves anyway. They can get plans from the insurance companies, and put specific "options" in that are employee paid (as the article suggest, they could be "zero cost" options too). The church gets to claim they aren't paying for them, and the employees get the coverage. As long as it is consistent with the rest of the regulations, they're golden.