Why Catholics are upset about Obama’s birth control policy Catholic bishops have been raising hell over a rule that forces Catholic hospitals to include free contraception in the health coverage they provide employees. There’s a good FAQ piece in today’s The Washington Post that explains why Catholics are upset. The birth control rule, part of Obama’s healthcare law, says that all employers have to offer free preventive care to employees as part of their health insurance - and birth control comes under the header of “preventive care.” The rule makes some exceptions: religious organizations can opt out if most of their employees are religious too, writes The Washington Post’s Sarah Kliff. But that opt-out isn’t available for Catholic hospitals, because they employ so many non-Catholics. Newt Gingrich - a convert to the mother church - toured the Sunday talk shows to fume over the policy, calling it the most outrageous assault on religious freedom in American history.
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Why Catholics are upset about Obama’s birth control policy

Catholic bishops have been raising hell over a rule that forces Catholic hospitals to include free contraception in the health coverage they provide employees.

There’s a good FAQ piece in today’s The Washington Post that explains why Catholics are upset. The birth control rule, part of Obama’s healthcare law, says that all employers have to offer free preventive care to employees as part of their health insurance - and birth control comes under the header of “preventive care.”

The rule makes some exceptions: religious organizations can opt out if most of their employees are religious too, writes The Washington Post’s Sarah Kliff. But that opt-out isn’t available for Catholic hospitals, because they employ so many non-Catholics.

Newt Gingrich - a convert to the mother church - toured the Sunday talk shows to fume over the policy, calling it

the most outrageous assault on religious freedom in American history.

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