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President Obama’s birth control shift jeered

President Obama may have retreated on birth control, but Republicans aren’t ready to declare victory just yet. The right is ripping the Obama Administration’s attempt to appease religious groups who were furious about a federal rule requiring religiously-affiliated institutions to provide employees insurance covering copay-free contraception.

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Obama’s birth control shift jeered by GOP: It’s not enough!  

President Obama may have retreated on birth control, but Republicans aren’t ready to declare victory just yet.

The right is ripping the Obama Administration’s attempt to appease religious groups who were furious about a federal rule requiring religiously-affiliated institutions to provide employees insurance covering copay-free contraception.

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White House didn’t foresee birth control backlash (AP)

President Barack Obama pauses while announcing the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP – It’s not like he wasn’t warned.


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Conservatives shrug at Obama birth control rewrite (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney embraces Al Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012,  at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – President Barack Obama’s political shifting over contraception coverage has united conservative Republicans in protest even as they split over which GOP presidential hopeful should face him in the general election.


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Under fire, Obama adjusts his birth control policy (AP)

President Barack Obama pauses while announcing the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP – Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for free birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead.


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Obama adjusts birth control policy after protests (AP)

President Barack Obama concludes his remarks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, where he announced the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – President Barack Obama, struggling with a political storm that hasthreatened to keep building, announced a birth control compromise Friday that he said would both protect religious liberties and ensure that the nation’s women have access to free contraception.


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Obama: Birth control policy meets everyone’s needs (AP)

President Barack Obama concludes his remarks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, where he announced the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – President Barack Obama declared Friday he’s found a solution to a birth-control uproar that will protect religious liberty but also ensure that women have access to free contraception, as he rushed to defuse an election-year issue that threatened to overtake his administration.


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