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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking: On CNN - GOP is adding a 'conscience clause' to the bill (UPDATED)
... regarding 'contraceptives' and 'companies' coverage - or something like that - I didn't catch all that he said.
Edited to add..
Washington (CNN) - House Republicans have added a measure aimed at limiting contraceptive coverage to the spending bill coming up for a vote Saturday night, a spokesman for Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kansas, told CNN.
A senior House leadership aide confirmed that development.
The so-called conscience clause would allow employers and insurers to opt out of preventative care for women which they find objectionable on moral or religious grounds. That prominently includes birth control, which most insurers are required to provide for free under current Obamacare rules.
With this move, House Republican leaders would give any employer or group health plan the ability to opt out of contraception coverage for the next year. That time frame syncs up with the larger measure in which this is included: a one-year delay of Obamacare provisions not yet in effect.
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Full article here: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/28/gop-to-add-conscience-clause-to-spending-bill/
djean111
(14,255 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Or are you trying to suggest that Republicans are conscious?
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)I didn't know how to spell it and that was what my browser spell check came up with
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)and the only definition of conscience that any conscious person could conceivably apply to them.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)madaboutharry
(40,217 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Without defunding ACA and even if they shut down the government it will still be funded. Who would have thought they would still be playing tricks at this late date, oh, I forgot, we are talking about repukes.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)I mean seriously, what?
winstars
(4,220 posts)CreekDog
(46,192 posts)Not being mean, but he likes to predict things that don't end up happening.
Which is good news in this case.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)or is that a new term that's come up recently?
(really - I'm confused)
neverforget
(9,436 posts)Fuckers.
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)We must be strong and unyielding.
Blue Idaho
(5,052 posts)Fuck these traitors. Let them shut down the government. All of the government. Every last bit of the government. The Military, Social Security, Medicare, the VA, the Treasury, every damn bit of the government and then let's see how America feels about their sanctimonious conscience clause.