As the controversy over the Obama administration's January directive to religious institutions to pay for employees' contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs was heating up, Michael Gerson—a conservative columnist frequently friendly to the Church's views—speculated on the reasoning behind this provocative move.
"The Obama administration seems to have calculated that, since contraceptives are popular and the Catholic Church is not, the outcry would be isolated," Gerson wrote.
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