WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is considering GOP legislation, steeped in election-year politics,to roll back President Barack Obama's policy on birth control coverage.
At issue is a measure sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri that would allow employers and insurers to opt out of provisions in Obama's health care law to which they object on religious or moral grounds. That includes the recently rewritten requirement that insurers cover the cost of birth control, even for religiously affiliated employers whose faith forbids contraception.
Republicans cast the debate as not about contraception or women but instead the First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom.
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