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FACT: Members Of Congress Benefit From Contraception Coverage, But Seek To Limit Access For Women | ThinkProgress

Seeded on Thu Feb 9, 2012 2:35 PM EST
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Republicans in Congress have gone to war over the administration’s new rule requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to women. Despite the fact that the regulation already excludes more than 335,000 entities, Republicans have introduced legislation seeking to expand the conscience clause protection to exclude even more religiously affiliated institutions from the requirement. 

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An official at the Office of Personnel Management, which administrates the program, has confirmed to ThinkProgress that all FEHB plans provide coverage for contraception, meaning that every single member of Congress opposing Obama’s rule now has the birth control coverage they’re seeking to deny to others.

COH Please.

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3rdtime

Good for me but not for thee.

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Reply#2 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 3:11 PM EST
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