Politics
Obama tries to quell birth control storm
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
President Barack Obama wants to quickly resolve religious unease about making religious-employer health plans cover contraceptives, advisers said.
“We certainly don’t want to abridge anyone’s religious freedoms, so we’re going to look for a way to move forward that both provides women with the preventative care that they need and respects the prerogatives of religious institutions,” David Axelrod, a top adviser to Obama’s re-election campaign, told MSNBC.
“There are conversations right now to arrange a meeting to talk with folks about how this policy can be nuanced,” the Rev. Joel C. Hunter, a Florida megachurch pastor and author of “A New Kind of Conservative” who has advised Obama on religious issues, told The Washington Post.