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Interesting how the media narrative can change really fast. This morning Obama was “boxed in” on his administration’s contraception mandate, caught between reproductive rights advocates (and regular folks via the polls) telling him to stand fast and a host of friends and enemies telling him he had to cave.

Yet the “compromise” he announced, which will require insurers to supply free contraceptives to employees of institutions refusing to offer such coverage on their own dime, got immediate endorsements from both the Catholic Health Association—representing the institutions whose employees were most affected by the whole issue—and Planned Parenthood…

[M]ake no mistake: it just got an awful lot harder for conservatives to frame the mandate (as now formulated) as an assault on religious liberty that will drive Catholics back into the catacombs—or even affect the operations of Catholic hospitals and charities.

— Did Obama Thread the Needle on Contraception Mandate? (via ryking)


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