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Provide birth control coverage for its employees, at least not while their case plays out in the nation's highest court. elizabeth fran has more on this story of church versus state. >> reporter: the injunction ordered by the supreme court justices says the colorado organization little sisters of the poor, for the time being, does not have to provide coverage which includes contraceptives as preventive care for women. the group can draft its own notice proving its own religious objections. experts say this could have a sweeping impact on other groups across the nation. >> this position the sup...

General says the group doesn't meet the standard for such exemption. we are seeing reaction from planned parenthood. the president writing in part, this case raises a narrow and specific question about the administrative mechanism that religious groups use to claim their exemption. this is a case about paperwork, not religious liberty. the same day we learned 3 million americans signed up for health coverage. a post on the medicare and medicaid services website did not list specific age breakdowns or how many folks paid their first month's premium. back to you. >> elizabeth, thanks very much. ...

The democrats. so it's a significant development. and i give the republican party some credit for putting that together. that's what he said he wanted to do, and today he did it. >> yeah. absolutely. it's going to change the game, certainly the money game. one of the things that they are trying to do, of course, is address the issues concerning women, and it's been quite a debate. we have seen mike huckabee over the last 24 hours making quite a bit of news over some comments that he made. his argument against mandated birth control coverage. here's how he put it. >> the democrats want to insul...

"that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." what will your verse be? tonight in true politics, republican efforts to win back women voters in comments made today the democrats are now pointing to as an example of why they have a hard time doing just that. former presidential candidate mike huckabee talking today about birth control coverage in the affordable care act at republican party's annual winter meeting in washington. >> the democrats want to insult the women of a them believe that they are helpless without uncle sugar coming in and providing for them a prescript...

County clerks in saying no, we're not going to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals. >> and over on fox news, they're trying to claim that obama care's birth control coverage is somehow an attack on religious freedom. >> the battle over the obama care contraception mandate hitting religious groups. this are crippling finds, which really are taxes that would be leveed against your church. >> the obama administration decided to hassle nuns a little more. they have gone after the sisters of the poor. >> yeah. >> is this part of a larger trend for the administration having contempt for people's ...