Copyrighted Image? DMCA | The Senate voted to table an amendment that would permit an employer to deny contraception coverage to their employees on Thursday morning, but the debate over birth control raged into the afternoon, as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Just moments after Senators defeated the so-called Blunt Amendment, Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) accused Sebelius of lying about the administration's rule requiring employers to provide birth control coverage in their health insurance plans and falsely insisted that religious organizations would be required to provide "abortifacient" drugs. MURPHY: We're not talking about scientists. Ma'm we're not talking about scientists here, we're talking about religious belief. Ma'm, I'm asking you about a religious belief. In a religious belief, that is a violation of a religious belief. |
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