Culture Wars: Birth Control Mandate Backlash
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Channel: Roland S. Martin · 2012 · News & Politics
The culture wars came roaring back to life this week as three events once again sharply divided the country. Cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure's decision, since reversed, to defund Planned Parenthood is still making folks on both sides angry. A federal a]ppeals court declared California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional, which banned gay marriage, and a late January ruling by the Obama Administration mandating institutions such as Catholic hospitals and universities provide birth control services as part of employee health benefits became a pitched battle over religious freedom and women's reproductive rights. The Catholic Church is outraged, and Republicans have launched a full-out attack, with Cong. John Boehner saying that it cannot, and will not, stand. Eric Baxter is the senior counsel for the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty, which has mounted a legal challenge to the contraceptive mandate; and Bill Press is a Catholic, a progressive commentator and a former seminarian for ten years joined Roland Martin on Washington Watch to discuss these topics and more.
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