There can be no doubt that Republicans want to use their big intrusive government insert themselves between a woman and her doctor, when she is pregnant. If that isn’t bad enough, they also want to insert themselves between husband and wife in bed, as shown by Republican opposition to birth control. Fortunately for women, Barack Obama has stepped into the gap to support women.

Today, in a huge victory for women’s health, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that most employers will be required to cover contraception in their health plans, along with other preventive services, with no cost-sharing such as co-pays or deductibles. This means that after years of trying to get birth control covered to the same extent that health plans cover Viagra, our country will finally have nearly universal coverage of contraception. Opponents of contraception had lobbied hard [fanatics delinked] for a broad exemption that would have allowed any religiously-affiliated employer to opt out of providing such coverage. Fortunately, the Obama administration rejected that push and decided to maintain the narrow religious exemption that it initially proposed. Only houses of worship and other religious nonprofits that primarily employ and serve people of the same faith will be exempt. Religiously-affiliated employers who do not qualify for the exemption and are not currently offering contraceptive coverage may apply for transitional relief for a one-year period to give them time to determine how to comply with the rule. Twenty-eight states already require employers, including most religiously affiliated institutions, to cover contraception in their health plans. The only change is that now they must cover the full cost… [emphasis added]

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You can be certain that no Republican President would have done this, because Republicans do not support women’s rights. Republicans do NOT represent you.