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Senate Dems pass controversial bill requiring hospitals to disclose services not offered
Republican opposition centered around freedom of religion
3/2/2012
By Peter Marcus
The Colorado Statesman
State Senate Democrats on Wednesday pushed through a bill that would require hospitals in Colorado to disclose to patients services that are not offered because of religious or moral beliefs, such as abortions.

The controversial Senate Bill 93, sponsored by Sen. Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora, made its way through the Senate on a party-line vote of 20-14 over the objections of Republicans who believe the legislation is a an attempt at government to limit the First Amendment freedoms of religion. The bill now heads to the Republican-controlled House where it faces a much tougher test and will likely die.

Passage of SB 93 came just one day before U.S. Senate Democrats in Washington blocked an amendment that would have allowed insurers to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage to members if their employers raise religious or moral objections. Republicans had sought the amendment — sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and attached to an unrelated transportation bill — to combat a mandate in President Barack Obama’s federal health care law that requires employers to cover contraception without co-pays. The president has proposed a compromise that would require insurers to provide the contraceptive coverage without charging the employers, but that does not fix the problem for self-insured religiously affiliated institutions. The moral question still remains for those employers, which is what brought Blunt’s amendment.

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