{"id":30750,"date":"2012-02-09T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_white_house_signals_backtrack_on_contraception_rule\/"},"modified":"2012-02-09T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:00:43","slug":"rns_white_house_signals_backtrack_on_contraception_rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30750","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) White House Signals Backtrack on Contraception Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House advisors, including one of President Obama&#8217;s top faith consultants, are signaling a potential compromise on a controversial new mandate that requires some religious institutions to cover contraception costs for employees.<\/p>\n<p>David Axelrod, a senior campaign adviser for the Obama reelection campaign, said Tuesday that Obama may be open to a compromise that would expand a religious exemption in the new Health &#038; Human Services mandate to satisfy religious groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We certainly don\u2019t want to abridge anyone\u2019s religious freedoms,&#8221; Axelrod said on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe.&#8221; &#8220;So we\u2019re going to look for a way to move forward that both provides women with the preventive care that they need and respects the prerogatives of religious institutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ethicsdaily.com\/white-house-signals-backtrack-on-contraception-rule-cms-19226\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House advisors, including one of President Obama&#8217;s top faith consultants, are signaling a potential compromise on a controversial new mandate that requires some religious institutions to cover contraception costs for employees. David Axelrod, a senior campaign adviser for the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30750\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,513,168,104,96,616,154,151,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}