Andrew D.
Current Event #2
Topic: Health
Senate Rejects Step Targeting Coverage of Contraception
Robert Pear
New York Times
March 1, 2012
Article length: 1056 words

The Senate as of recently decided in favor of Obama's birth control policy. This heated debate has been raging in the senate heavily dividing the Democrats and Republicans. Democrats are in favor of protecting women's health rights in their decision in having a child. Republicans strongly opposed the policy and accused the Democrats of infringing of religious freedom and the Constitution. The Democrats in the senate disagreed and defended themselves by claiming that the Republican health care proposal had gone far beyond contraception by giving the power to religious institutions to deny other health issues.

It appears that this sensitive issue will continue to spark more controversy. The Democrats claim that the Republican proposal had gone to far was a similar argument many Americans had claimed about the SOPA Bill. Thought the SOPA bill had good intentions the way it had been presented and written would allow companies to exploit the bill in their favor beyond copyrights.



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/us/politics/senate-kills-gop-bill-opposing-contraception-policy.html?_r=1&ref=health