Senate rejects change to contraception rule

Senate rejects change to contraception rule

NCR

Lawyers say change would have gone too far

By RNS and NCR staff

The Senate on Thursday defeated a Republican-led bid to insert a broad religious exemption into a federal mandate that requires most employers and health insurance companies to provide free contraception coverage. The largely party-line vote was 51-48 in favor of tabling an amendment that Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., had offered to a federal transportation bill.