The first amendment of the Constitution makes it clear that government should not interfere in religious practice, but now this ideal is under attack. Recently this year the HHS mandate of the new Obamacare law tried to use faulty economics to claim that religious rights won't be infringed. Check out this article to refute these claims:
http://www.wordonfire.org/WoF-Blog/WoF-Blog/March-2012/Commentary-The-Ec...
The bishops who recently opposed this mandate make it perfectly clear that they don't want to outlaw contraception for the entire nation or bully the government in its demands. We Catholics only want to say that government has no right forcing patients to be given practices that are contrary to our beliefs. So let us enforce our statement to gov't