Month: March 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – almost two-thirds of Americans supported the President’s policy Barack Obama which obliges employers to cover contraceptives of employed women, including majorities of Catholics, Evangelical Protestants and independent, as a poll showed on Thursday. A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation among 1,500 adults revealed that public opinion is more divided according to party affiliation to the genre, with 83 percent of Democrats, 62 percent of Independents and 42 percent of Republicans in favor of the measure. In total, 63 percent of Americans supported the decision, according to the data. Adopted this month in the framework of the Obama of the 2010 health care reform law, the policy requires that the majority of employers offer coverage to contraceptives without additional and deductible payments. Obama made a concession with the institutions of religious affiliation, as opposed to artificial contraception, Catholic hospitals and universities requiring insurers to cover the cost of birth control to their employers. The rule does not apply to places of worship, such as churches, synagogues and mosques. But Catholic leaders, Republican, Protestant evangelical groups and other conservatives rejected the agreement, saying it continues to violate religious freedom enshrined in the American Constitution and would cause economic problems for institutions that provide their own insurer. The dispute triggered a bitter debate in Congress, as well as a handful of lawsuits Catholic, including a federal in Nebraska,...