President Barack Obama, grappling with a political firestorm that threatened to consume his administration, unveiled a birth control compromise Friday that he said would both protect religious liberties and ensure that women have access to free contraception.

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(Reuters) - President Barack Obama, in an abrupt policy shift aimed at quelling an election-year firestorm, announced on Friday that religious employers would not be required to offer free birth control to workers and the onus would instead be put on insurers. But Catholic Church leaders and Obama's Republican opponents, who had railed against the Democratic president's new rule on ...

Funny what happens in an election year.

Obama says all women will have birth control coverage, but religious institutions won't have to pay for it. He said women's health shouldn't be tied to the workplace.

President Obama's attempt to thread the needle on the issue of whether religious institutions should provide contraception isn't winning over his harshest critics, and likely also won't stop a legislative showdown.

US President Barack Obama Friday announced a compromise to defuse a row over access to birth control which prompted election-year Republican critics to claim he was waging a war on religion.

President Barack Obama, struggling with a political storm that hasthreatened to keep building, announced a birth control compromise Friday that he said would both protect religious liberties and ensure that the nation's women have access to free contraception.

President Barack Obama says he will bypass religious groups’ opposition to a health-insurance mandate by directing insurance companies to hand out free birth control services to employees of religious institutions.