“Obama advised the Department of Health and Human Services to redistribute a portion of the Title V funding, which allots $50 million to the states for abstinence education, to a new program that focuses on contraception usage.” ChristianNews.net

Friday’s highly publicized announcement, President Obama may have helped contain the political firestorm over the new federal mandate that health plans cover contraceptives. But the embers are still hot. And legally speaking, nothing has changed. Read more about An Incomplete Contraceptive Coverage Compromise

Thus it’s not obvious to me that we will be better off encouraging Catholic hospitals and other groups to provide services exclusively to their own flock, while exclusively employing members of their own flock. Read more about Should the Church Have to Dispense Birth Control?

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a case brought by a group of Catholic and Baptist charities, who have argued that they should be exempt from a New York law requiring them to provide birth control to their employees.