11.   Some union insurance plans for workers at Catholic hospitals include contraceptive coverage.

12.   Such a prediction is even easier in the case of the contraceptive insurance coverage issue, because both houses of Congress are already on record in support.

13.   The Catholic Church and many religious groups that oppose birth control have objected vehemently to any attempt to force contraceptive coverage.

14.   The Arizona Chamber of Commerce is among those ready to oppose any law making contraceptive coverage mandatory.

15.   The mandates include contraceptive coverage and length of hospital stay after childbirth.

16.   The question is whether the White House will insist on keeping the contraceptive coverage in the final package and will oppose the moral exception.

17.   The Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno, had long insisted that any bill include a broad exemption allowing employers to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage.

18.   The University of Nebraska, New York University and others have recently agreed to pay for contraceptive coverage.

19.   Then, he proposed eliminating contraceptive coverage for federal employees, only to see that proposal overturned by the House Appropriations Committee last week.

20.   This provision would exempt from mandatory contraceptive coverage certain religious institutions, like churches or parochial schools, which mostly employ and serve Catholics.