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Obamacare and Religious Freedom.

Hello again, I'm Warren Olney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

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Religious organizations are fighting some mandates of the Affordable Care Act, but it's not about cost.

It's about moral objections to contraception.

Obamacare requires employer-provided insurance to pay for contraceptives, including the morning after pill,

so women can get them for free.

For the past year, some religious organizations, family-owned businesses and others have

claimed that violates their religious freedom.

After lawsuits and public outcry, the administration has offered exemptions, it says,

will serve women's health needs and religious liberty at the same time.

We'll update a controversy that might end up in the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Hello again. I'm Armin Alney, back with To the Point. Does Obamacare violate the right to religious freedom?

That's what some religious non-profits and some private employers are saying. It's all about the

requirement that insurance policies they provide to their employees cover contraception. We'll hear

about new exemptions the administration is coming up with to try to serve women's health needs

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