Manufacturing a Controversy Over Birth Control Coverage

alternet.org — "Right of conscience" and "religious freedom" is the party line for the opposition to a measure that says employers will have to offer insurance plans that cover contraception. But it hasn't always been. Amanda Marcotte on Twitter pointed to a story from summer 2010 by Dana Goldstein, in which the Catholic bishops' reasons for opposing birth control coverage were not at all about religious freedom, but actually about opposition to sex.

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