Contraception lawsuit puts Obama on the spot 
Politico
Obama earned a lot of goodwill from reproductive rights groups and women voters, thanks to his hard-line defense of a health reform rule mandating coverage of contraception and would not want to reopen any wounds with this constituency over emergency ...

 

Religion news in brief 
Fox News
Franciscan University in Ohio drops student health insurance over contraception coverage CINCINNATI (AP) ? A Roman Catholic university in eastern Ohio says it will drop student health insurance partly because of a new federal health care rule ...
Catholic college drops health plan over contraception mandate Reuters
College drops health care plan over religious objections to Obamacare KETK

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Contraceptive Rings and Patches Linked to Blood Clot Risk 
Medscape
May 16, 2012 ? Women who use transdermal patches or vaginal rings for contraception may be at significantly increased risk for venous thromboembolism compared with women who do not use hormonal contraception, according to a national registry-based ...

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White House's Contraceptive Kulturkampf 
First Things (blog)
Franciscan University of Steubenville just dropped health insurance for its undergraduates, thus becoming one of the most prominent early victims of the Department of Health and Human Services mandate requiring all health plans to cover contraception, ...

 

Missouri House endorses contraception, abortion refusal legislation 
Columbia Missourian
BY CHRIS BLANK/AP JEFFERSON CITY ? The Missouri House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday that would allow health care workers, medical centers and others to refuse to provide contraception or carry out procedures that violate their ...
House OKs bill allowing refusal of health care Columbia Daily Tribune
Missouri House endorses health care legislation STLtoday.com
KOAM TV 7 Joplin and PittsburgMo. House endorses health care legislation KOAM-TV
CBS Local  -The Rolla Daily News 
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Decision In NY Case On Access To Emergency Contraception Could Impact Politics 
Kaiser Health News
Politico looks at how a court decision to make emergency contraception accessible to women younger than age 17 could put both President Barack Obama and GOP candidate Mitt Romney on the spot. A ruling to strike the age 17 limit on "Plan B" ? which, ...

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DC Abortion Bill To Get Hearing; Mo. Considers Allowing Employers To Opt-Out ... 
Kaiser Health News
Elsewhere, Missouri lawmakers consider allowing businesses to opt-out of a federal mandate to cover contraception in their health plans and another Catholic university -- this one in Florida -- considers dumping its health plan instead of complying ...
Nancy Pelosi, Eleanor Holmes Norton hit Republicans ahead of DC abortion hearing Washington Post (blog)
Trent Franks Blocks D.C. Representative From Testifying About Proposed D.C. ... ThinkProgress

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Catholic Bishops Group GC Denounces Proposed Contraception Rule 
Corporate Counsel
?No one (religiously affiliated or not) with a moral or religious objection to contraceptive coverage should be required to offer or provide it,? states the letter, which was also signed by associate general counsel Michael Moses.
US Bishops Reject Proposed 'Compromise' on HHS Contraception Mandate Christian Post
Pulpit Politics: Religious Leaders Should Persuade, Not Pronounce Huffington Post (blog)
Bishops to sue over birth-control coverage rule ModernHealthcare.com
Catholic News Agency  -Ms. Magazine  -Yahoo! News Blogs (blog) 
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Contraception coverage rule ripples through college campuses 
News-Medical.net
A fight over allowing HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius -- a key player in creating a mandate to force student health plans to cover contraception -- to speak at Georgetown's graduation continues. In the meantime, a Catholic university in Ohio is ending ...
Kathleen Sebelius to address Georgetown grads amid contraception flap WJLA
Georgetown Defends Sebelius Invitation Wall Street Journal
Georgetown gets it right on invitation to Kathleen Sebelius Washington Post
Christian Post  -STLtoday.com 
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Over 680000 Worldwide Petition Honduran Congress Not to Criminalize Contraception 
Honduras Weekly
The petition calls the president of the Honduran National Congress, Juan Orlando Hernández, ?not to criminalize contraception? and to stop Honduras becoming "the only country in the world to punish the use or sale of the morning-after pill with jail ...

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