To protect himself from a national backlash, the President announced a "compromise" that will allow religious institutions to withhold premiums paid to insurance companies preventive procedures they believe are immoral. Separating the premiums paid to insurance companies does NOT CHANGE what these policies will cover. The very same policies funded by religious institutions WILL CONTINUE to cover contraception, birth control, and abortion drugs for every employee of these organizations. To pretend, that the premiums paid by the employer will not subsidize these services is simply WRONG. The President must rescind this mandate or make an permanant exemption for any entity that finds objectionablem any 'preventive' procedures HHS has mandated



