US Senate rejects Republican motion on contraceptives
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – the Senate of United States, controlled by the Democrats, rejected on Thursday a motion Republican against a policy of President Barack Obama to seeks to include contraceptives in health insurance, something that has led to a controversy between the two parties in a election year. Senators voted 51-48 against the amendment of the Republican Roy Blunt, which would have exempted institutions of religious affiliation as Catholic hospitals, universities and charitable organizations comply with a law requiring coverage free contraceptives and devices to control the birth. The motion of Blunt aimed to reverse the policy the Government of Obama to find that health insurance offering free contraceptives and other services preventive women without copayments or deductibles, allowing to health plans and businesses not eligible to it by moral or religious reasons. Only a Republican, Senator for Maine Olympia Snowe, is he jumped to vote with the Democrats, party discipline after expressing his fear that the ambiguous language of the amendment it could allow health companies to deny a wide range of health care benefits. Three Democrats–Ben Nelson, Joe Manchin and Robert Casey- voted in favour of the amendment. In general, Democrats sought to occur as the advocates for the health of women before the vote. “Today (Thursday), the Senate will vote an amendment extremely “” ideological”, said the leader of the majority in the Senate, Harry Reid,...
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