Barack Obama's Contraception Ruling Backed By Previously Unreleased Survey
Sam Stein
HuffPost
First Posted: 02/ 9/2012 10:35 am Updated: 02/ 9/2012 10:46 am
WASHINGTON -- Hoping to hold the line on President Barack Obama's controversial contraception ruling, which requires most religiously affiliated employers to cover the costs of their employees' birth control, Democrats are passing around private polling data from last August showing that a majority of the country -- including Catholics -- actually favors the policy.
A Democratic source on Thursday morning sent over previously unreleased data put together by pollster Celinda Lake for the Herndon Alliance, a non-partisan pro-health care reform coalition. The survey, conducted with more than 1,000 people, focuses on all aspects of the Affordable Care Act.
Its release was not authorized by the Herndon Alliance. For the Democratic party, however, the poll serves an important function. It contained a series of questions that are highly relevant to the debate over whether religious-oriented institutions should be required to offer contraception as part of their health care plans.
The poll asks respondents to react to the following argument, the language of which seems fairly evenly phrased by the standards of the current debate.
(More here.)
HuffPost
First Posted: 02/ 9/2012 10:35 am Updated: 02/ 9/2012 10:46 am
WASHINGTON -- Hoping to hold the line on President Barack Obama's controversial contraception ruling, which requires most religiously affiliated employers to cover the costs of their employees' birth control, Democrats are passing around private polling data from last August showing that a majority of the country -- including Catholics -- actually favors the policy.
A Democratic source on Thursday morning sent over previously unreleased data put together by pollster Celinda Lake for the Herndon Alliance, a non-partisan pro-health care reform coalition. The survey, conducted with more than 1,000 people, focuses on all aspects of the Affordable Care Act.
Its release was not authorized by the Herndon Alliance. For the Democratic party, however, the poll serves an important function. It contained a series of questions that are highly relevant to the debate over whether religious-oriented institutions should be required to offer contraception as part of their health care plans.
The poll asks respondents to react to the following argument, the language of which seems fairly evenly phrased by the standards of the current debate.
(More here.)
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