National Health Care Reform-House Of Representatives-Religious Institutions-Health Insurance Plans

New Hampshire House passes birth control exemption

A vendor displays novelty condoms with the likeness of U.S. Republican presidential nominee McCain and U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Obama during an Obama campaign rally in Las Vegas

LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - New Hampshire's Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to exempt religious institutions from having to include contraceptive coverage in health insurance plans. The move was the latest in a national effort by Republicans opposed to provisions of President Obama's 2010 national health care reform law that would require all insurance plans -- even those sponsored by religious institutions -- to provide coverage for birth control pills and other contraception for women. ... read more..

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Health And Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius-Religious Institutions-American Women

Q&A: Obama and the birth control controversy

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announces the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

What birth control debate? A half-century after the introduction of the pill, acceptance of birth control by American women is virtually universal. read more..

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