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Catholics File Flood of Birth-Control Lawsuits

Rob Quinn — Tue, 22 May 2012 05:26:04 CDT

Notre Dame's lawsuit yesterday was just the beginning, because America's Catholic bishops have turned en masse to the courts in an attempt to ensure that employees of Catholic institutions do not have health plans that cover birth control. Some 43 Catholic dioceses, schools, social service agencies, and other institutions filed...

Notre Dame Sues Over Obama Birth Control Mandate

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:43:48 CDT

More trouble for the Obama administration's mandate requiring most employers to cover birth control: Now the University of Notre Dame is suing, the AP reports, claiming that the mandate violates religious freedom. Observers had been waiting to see what step Notre Dame would take as the US' most prominent Roman...

Catholic School Yanks Student Health Plan

Kevin Spak — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:20:00 CDT

The Franciscan University of Steubenville has decided to discontinue its entire student health insurance plan as a way to duck the Obama administration's contraceptives mandate . While a number of Catholic institutions have protested the mandate , the Ohio school is the first to actually drop its coverage, the Huffington Post reports....

Kate Beckinsale: I Want GOP in My ...

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:57:45 CDT

What’s this about the Republicans waging a War on Women? Some women actually want nothing more than for the GOP to get all up in their business, argues Kate Beckinsale in a new Funny or Die video that is quite liberal in its use of the word “vagina.” Beckinsale, joined...

'Devious' Obama Losing Credibility Fast

John Johnson — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:00:05 CDT

Peggy Noonan thinks a lot of Republicans who once liked President Obama personally, if not politically, are having serious second thoughts. "What is happening is that the president is coming across more and more as a trimmer, as an operator who's not operating in good faith," she writes in the...

One Month Later, Rush Limbaugh Sitting Pretty

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:58:37 CDT

Remember all the outrage, the advertiser exodus , the calls for Rush Limbaugh to be permanently taken off the air after he called birth control advocate Sandra Fluke a slut ? Well, one month on, all that appears to be in the past. In the past two weeks, just one additional...

19% of Pharmacies to 17-Year-Olds: No Plan B

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:41:26 CDT

Pharmacies are required by law to provide over-the-counter emergency contraception to 17-year-olds without a prescription, but a new study in Pediatrics journal found that one out of five drugstores does not comply. Boston University researchers contacted all the pharmacies (943 total) in five big cities twice, posing as a 17-year-old...

Ariz. Bill Lets All Bosses Deny Birth Control Coverage

Rob Quinn — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:45:05 CDT

More contraception controversy: A bill before Arizona's Senate would allow all employers, not just faith-based ones, to exclude birth control from health insurance coverage. "We live in America. We don’t live in the Soviet Union,” one of the bill's Republican sponsors says. "So government shouldn’t be telling employers, Catholic organizations...

GOP Handing 2016 to Hillary

Kevin Spak — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:57:23 CDT

On Saturday, Hillary Clinton took a resounding shot at Republicans. "Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me," she said. "It doesn't matter what country they're in or what religion they claim. They want to control women." Clinton isn't supposed to get involved in domestic politics, "but...