The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has taken issue with the Obama administration’s healthcare bill, which requires all university and hospital insurance plans to cover contraception. Archbishop Timothy Dolan wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial that this provision infringes on personal freedoms, “coercing religious ministries and citizens to pay directly for actions that violate their teaching.” However, two new recently released polls reveal that American Catholics are more supportive of contraception coverage in employer-provided insurance than non-Catholics. Lisa Miller is religion columnist at Washington Post and contributing editor at New York Magazine.
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