Limits on birth control rejected

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The Senate voted 51 to 48 to kill a measure sponsored by Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri that would have allowed any employer or health insurance plan to deny coverage of care – including contraceptives -- based on moral or religious objections. On the Senate floor, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts pointedly criticized the Blunt amendment -- whose cosponsors are mostly Republican, including Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown – as an example of polarizing partisanship that has driven Maine Senator Olympia Snowe from running for reelection.

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