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RED RIVER ORTHODOX: ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY IN THE RED RIVER VALLEY AND NORTH DAKOTA Religious Freedom Debates Across America and North Dakota
As most (if not all) readers of this blog know, North Dakotans will soon have an opportunity to vote on Measure 3, which seeks to pattern North Dakotan religious freedom protection after that which al...
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Birth control, insurance fight shows Catholic-Evangelical ties 
After the White House decreed this month that religious employers would have to pay for workers' birth control, it was no surprise that Roman Catholic leaders would protest. That evangelical Protestants would rally to their cause was less expected and unthinkable even a generation ago.
By Tom Breen , February 25, 2012
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Democrats at mock birth control hearing take testimony from woman snubbed by GOP lawmakers
Although Congress was in recess Thursday, Sandra Fluke was treated to rock-star status as the lone witness at a mock birth control hearing conducted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and three other Democrats. Dozens of mostly young women supporters of Democratic positions crowded into a House office building room to hear Fluke speak on the importance of women being able to access contraceptive health care.
By Jim Abrams , February 23, 2012
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Among Republican opponents, Santorum's ideas on abortion, women in combat, birth control stand out
A Catholic father of seven whose kids are home-schooled, Rick Santorum may seem to wear his conservatism as comfortably as his sweater vests. But he's walked a careful path, keeping the more provocative opinions that helped sink his re-election to the Senate in 2006 mostly out of his presidential campaign. That is until he leaped to the top of the polls, alongside Mitt Romney.
By Connie Cass and Jennifer Agiesta , February 17, 2012
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Religious leaders say fed birth control coverage policies violate religion freedoms
Religious leaders told a House panel today the Obama administration was violating basic rights to religious freedom with its policies for requiring that employees of religion-affiliated institutions have access to birth control coverage. President Obama last Friday modified that policy so that insurance companies, and not the organization affiliated with a church, pay for birth control costs, but that didn't satisfy those testifying at the hearing.
By Jim Abrams , February 16, 2012
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Conservatives in uproar of over Obama's birth control revision
President Barack Obama's political shifting over contraception coverage has united conservative Republicans in protest even as they split over which GOP presidential hopeful should face him in the general election.
By Laurie Kellman , February 11, 2012
Analysis: Obama's course correction over contraception shifts dynamic
VIDEO: Watch at bottom of articleFor three weeks of heated rhetoric, Republicans cast President Barck Obama's new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to their employees as an attack on individual liberty. The contentious issue united recently fractured Republicans, Catholic bishops and religious groups while badly splitting Democrats who feared an election-year fallout.
By Donna Cassata , February 11, 2012
Obama says insurance companies must provide free contraception, not employers (VIDEO)
Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for free birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead.
By Ben Feller , February 10, 2012
Social issues overtake U.S. politics
All of a sudden, abortion, contraception and gay marriage are at the center of American political discourse, with the struggling — though improving — economy pushed to the background.
By Laurie Kellman , February 10, 2012
GOP-led Congress vows to reverse Obama's birth control policy
Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the rule that religious schools and hospitals provide employees with free contraceptives as an "unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country."
By Donna Cassata , February 08, 2012
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Abortion, birth control grab political spotlight
A political firestorm over abortion and birth control spread suddenly on Tuesday. A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen breast-cancer charity after its backtracking treaty with Planned Parenthood, and Republican presidential candidates blistered the Obama administration for a recent ruling on Catholic hospitals and contraception.
By Charles Babington , February 07, 2012
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Mix-up causes Pfizer to recall 1 million birth control packs
A manufacturing mix-up by Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker, led to some packets being distributed with the pills out of order. That means a patient could have unknowingly skipped a dose and raised her risk of an accidental pregnancy.
By Tom Murphy , February 01, 2012
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Catholics protest mandate to cover birth control
Ruling 'casts aside the First Amendment,' says Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo DioceseLocal Catholic leaders joined a nationwide pushback against a new federal health care mandate this weekend, claiming that forcing insurance plans to cover birth control violates their religious freedom.
By Sam Benshoof , January 31, 2012
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