isis is claiming the attacker in this week s truck ramming in new york city as a quote soldier of the caliphate. the terror groups weekly newspaper did not name the suspect nor claim direct responsibility for the attack. the article also stopped short of providing any credible evidence isis had knowledge of the attack before it happened. or even played a role in its planning. this is the first time isis made such a claim in its newspaper before boasting through its regular news agency. university of notre dame announcing it will no longer cover birth control. the institution making this after the loophole from the contra sepative mandate. school says it honors the moral teachings of the catholic church. employees will lose contraceptive coverage starting september 31.
the senate and start negotiating was huge because it showed that paul ryan can herd the cats enough to get the budget that nobody really likes on paper, over to the senate where the real action is going to start. elizabeth: they ve got to try to do that to get that reconciliation process. exactly. elizabeth: i want to ask you about another headline when the president made the move, and allowing companies to deny contraceptive coverage. and hundreds of thousands of losing this coverage, meaning access to contraceptive pills. will a lot of employers say they have a religious reason to deny coverage? about 200 employers brought the original lawsuit. the estimate it s going to affect 120,000 women out of 320 million people. so it s a small group. but the they did a very good job of narrowly, you know, drawing the rules here. you can t simply say, oh, yeah, i don t like that religion
death. two other soldiers were wounded. they released the identities, black of washington state, 35 years old. staff sergeant jeremiah johnson of ohio was 38 t and staff sergeant dustin write of georgia 39 years old. our thoughts and prayers with their families. let s move to our politics lead. and we have our panel with us. and i asked a provocative question that i thought i asked in an and tia abortion pro life fashion. doesn t the trump administration allowing more companies to not provide contraceptive coverage because of religious objection, doesn t this theoretically mean unwanted abortions? did you think 2010 american was the handmade tail? if not, we have a more generous mandate than we did back then.
insurance plans. the contraceptive coverage be at no charge, with no payment required there. what this new rule does effectively allows for a great widening of the number of exemptions. not just based on religious grounds but moral grounds as well, which presumably would allow all sorts of companies, not just religious ones, but all types of organizations and companies to say, based on moral grounds, we do not want to be doing this, which could have an impact on million american women. 55 million american women benefitted by that element of obamacare, according to a study that was commissioned by the obama administration. already we ve heard from planned parenthood, the leading group of obstetricians and gynecologists saying this is extremely disappointing. to be clear, it s not settled. this is a situation where the supreme court has yet to weigh in on it. i expect we ll see significant lawsuits on this topic again going forward.
include contraceptive coverage. this would vastly expand the exemptions not just for religious but also for moral reasons as well. the administration insists this is the president keeping his promise that no americans in effect should have to side between the federal government and their faith. the officials on the call that we just wrapped up a short time ago said basically they wanted to help americans get out from under the thumb of the federal government. they insist that 99.9% of women would not be impacted by this siting the lawsuits that have been filed on this topic. to be clear, there are likely to be more lawsuits. but there would be other organizations that could add themselves to this situation. basically try to take that exemption like catholic hospitals or other institutions. so a much larger number of individuals could be impacted by this. we just got a statement a short time ago from some of the critics by this administration.