'Conscience clauses'

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A broad Federal conscience clause was proposed in the early 1990's to enact a government subsidized expansion plan of health insurance coverage to all Americans and this plan included a standardized package of services that the insurance would have to cover. As a result, this plan would have to allow a health care institution to opt out providing service that it objected to morally or ethically, while continuing to receive government funding.

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Twenty-one states in America since the year 1998 have mandated that private insurers cover contraception to the same extent that they cover other drugs or outpatient health services. Even though groups like Catholic charities have fought the exclusion, arguing that it violates religious freedom so far the states narrower exemption has prevailed.

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Twenty-one states in America since the year 1998 have mandated that private insurers cover contraception to the same extent that they cover other drugs or outpatient health services. Even though groups like Catholic charities have fought the exclusion, arguing that it violates religious freedom so far the states narrower exemption has prevailed.

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