… A majority of the public (58 percent) supports the law’s requirement that private health insurance plans cover the full cost of birth control. On the issue facing the Supreme Court, a somewhat smaller majority (53 percent) believes the contraceptive coverage rule should apply to for-profit companies, even if it violates their owners’ personal religious beliefs, while four in ten (41 percent) say employers that object on religious grounds should not be subject to the requirement, even if it means their female employees will have to pay the cost of birth control themselves. As illustrated in Figure 1, gender and party differences exist on both of these questions, with women more likely to support the requirement than men, and those who identify as Democrats and independents more likely to support it than Republicans. CONT.
Jamie Firth, Liz Hamel & Mollyann Brodie, Kaiser Family Foundation
