"...the federal government has, in fact, put American employers in the position where they will have to choose whether or not to obey Caesar over God, pay potentially ruinous fines because of their faith, or quit providing services."
This is why normal people take conservatives even less serious than before, if that's possible. "American employers" are just that: employers. They are not religions, and don't practice a religion. Including birth control in health insurance programs was mandated by the Bush Administration under Title X. To wit, if Viagra is included, then birth control has to be included.
The vast majority of women use birth control, regardless of what religious leaders want. Catholic women especially.
"We will not fail," Archbishop William Lori declared at the quarterly meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Atlanta on June 13.
Tasked with leading a committee on religious liberty, the Baltimore archbishop's statement wasn't an empty boast but a supreme confidence. It wasn't a predictive assurance about the Obama administration's mandate on health insurance and abortion, or the Supreme Court's upcoming health-care ruling or the November election results but a reminder that his audience has weightier things on its mind: matters of a spiritual nature.
The peachy news out of the meeting was an unprecedented...
As far as the "Catholic women especially", that may or may not be true. One can choose to think along with the RCC or not, despite what they lable themselves.