A group of men with no real background in law or medicine, but blessed with a strong personal interest in women’s bodies, have quietly influenced all of the major anti-abortion legislation over the past several years. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops may be one of the quietest, yet most powerful lobbies on Capitol Hill, with political allies that have enabled them to roll back decades of law and precedent.Over the past two years the GOP-controlled House of Representatives has launched one of the most extreme assaults on women's choice the U.S. has seen in decades. Republicans voted twice to slash federal family planning funds for low-income women, moved to prevent women from using their own money to buy insurance plans that cover abortion, introduced legislation that would force women to have ultrasounds before receiving an abortion and, most recently, passed a bill that will allow hospitals to refuse to perform emergency abortions for women with life-threatening pregnancy complications. But the erosion of women's rights didn't begin with the GOP takeover. President Barack Obama's health care reform law contained some of the most restrictive abortion language seen in decades.Lift the curtain, and behind the assault was the conference of bishops.

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I dont view not requiring insurance companies to cover abortions as being "the most restrictive abortion language seen in decades." Abortions are still legal... PP is still running... women are still entitled to see one out. Should insurance companies cover? Yes. And they are required to cover any difficulties resulting from complications of an abortion. But the fact that they dont, yet, cover them, I dont view as "restrictive".

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The real issue is why is this religious, tax exempt organization being allowed to lobby so hard?