Obama: Birth Control Policy Meets Everyone’s Needs

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Obama: Birth Control Policy Meets Everyone’s Needs 2012-02-10T13:33:37-07:00

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Friday he has found a solution that will protect religious liberty but also ensure that women have access to free birth control, as he rushed to defuse an election-year political uproar that threatened to overtake his administration.

Capping weeks of growing controversy, Obama announced he was backing off a newly announced requirement for religious employers to provide free birth control coverage even if it runs counter to their religious beliefs. Instead, workers at such institutions will be able to get free birth control coverage directly from health insurance companies.

“Religious liberty will be protected and a law that requires free preventative care will not discriminate against women,” Obama said in a brief appearance in the White House briefing room.

“I understand some folks in Washington want to treat this as another political wedge issue. But it shouldn’t be. I certainly never saw it that way,” Obama said. “This is an issue where people of good will on both sides of the debate have been sorting through some very complicated questions.”

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