Source: Obama to announce compromise on contraception mandate

According to an Associated Press source, President Barack Obama will announce a compromise this morning on his mandate that would require religious employers to cover free birth control for women.

According to The Associated Press:

The shift is aimed at containing the political firestorm that erupted after Obama announced in January that religious-affiliated employers had to cover birth control as preventative care for women. Churches and houses of worship were exempt, but all other affiliated organizations were ordered to comply by Aug. 2013.

Republican leaders and religious groups, especially Roman Catholics, responded with intense outrage, saying the requirement would force them to violate church teachings and long-held beliefs against contraception.

NCR will follow the announcement live (it's expected to be on CNN), and we'll have updates for you as the morning progresses.

None other than women's

None other than women's rights to have responsible and affordable medical care is on the line. Obama bent and bent until the health care bill was very watered down to something that may be a beginning for reasonable medical care or it may simply be something that the those who use mammon as their God reverses completely. Don't let Obama start you down the line of supporting the misogynistic amoral Catholic Bishops who have refused to Walk in the Way of Christ. Instead they support bigotry against women, as they unite themselves in the US with Republican corporate executives to split the American society into a culture of the filthy rich against the dirty poor. That is what Ratzinger did in Brazil in other So. American Countries. Now his appointees are attempting to work his ways in the US. Let's be clear that our Bishops are agents of a foreign Vatican amorality that did not even support their own clergy such as the saintly Bishop Romero and many others in South America. Our Catholic Bishops were not leaders in the fight against slavery. In fact they were a force to preserve it. They currently have shown their colors of being anti-theology, anti-philosophy, anti-science, and anti-women. These men want nothing more in this case but to enforce their belief of HV on all in the US. Most Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Islamics, mormons, agnostics and atheists all use these methods of Birth Control. If Obama give in on this issue, it will be another set back for many.

Healthcare isn't a right! It

Healthcare isn't a right! It is a responsibility!

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