WASHINGTON — House Republicans aren’t attaching a birth control provision to the latest version of their government-funding bill.
The so-called “conscience clause,” which allows employers to opt out of providing health care services that they find morally or religiously objectionable, including birth control, was quietly rolled into the last funding bill that cleared the House. The provision was part of a broader one-year delay of Obamacare that Republicans attached to their bill. The Senate ultimately stripped the whole thing out though, and Republicans have refocused on adding in another anti-Obamacare provision — a delay of the health care law’s individual mandate — that doesn’t directly target contraception.
A House Republican leadership aide said the birth control language isn’t in the latest bill because it was “an outgrowth of a one-year delay” of Obamacare, which is no longer part of the bill.
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