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While challenges to President Obama's contraception rule could take the form of legal and legislative assaults, the White House and the Obama re-election campaign are comfortable with the revised rule, believing most Americans -- and particularly most women -- are on their side.
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Politics,
Government & Politics
Beliefs:
Christian - Catholic, Christian - Protestant
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birth control, contraception mandate, obama, u.s. conference of catholic bishops
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