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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Republican leaders are looking with a view to a way to reshape the discussion over the administration's new mastership on birth-control insurance coverage in the sight of moving ahead with a bid to nullify the requirement.

Representative Jeff Fortenberry, who has introduced legislation steady the issue, acknowledged hesitation by some fellow Republicans to take on the inflammatory issue. But he said a dawdling could give Republicans time to recast the delivering as a question of religious freedom rather than women's rights.

"We'll maintain trying to appropriately frame the altercation about this core American principle," Fortenberry related.

Representative Pete Sessions, who heads the House Republican campaign committee, afore~ party leaders are not backing not upon. "We're not hesitant to transact anything," Sessions said. "The successful rain hop about has a lot to do by timing."

House Republicans have taken a watchful approach after the Senate, mostly steady party lines, rejected a measure that would take allowed employers with moral objections to opt thoroughly of birth control coverage and other services.

The conduct's plan would require employers, including charities and other rigid institutions, to provide contraception coverage at ~t one extra charge.

Senator Roy Blunt, who offered the Senate apportion, said Democrats' framing of the outlet as a women's rights examination proved to be a problem. "We're not going to get that debate on birth control," reported Blunt. "But the debate over exact liberty is not going to tolerate away."

The issue has made more Republicans cautious in an election year, whenever most voters are concerned about U.S. household growth and job creation, said single aide.

A spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor declared Republican leaders were still discussing by members how best to move early.

Fortenberry said it is unclear whether his legislation be inclined be the bill that moves presumptuous in the House. But he believes he has the votes to make secure passage.

FIRST OBAMA, THEN REPUBLICANS

Obama faced ~y uproar from religious groups over the distribution's birth control requirement. But he moved quickly to quell it by altering the manage so employers with religious affiliations would not have ~ing required to offer free birth repress to workers.

Insurers would instead support the onus to provide coverage.

Republicans uttered the compromise did not go remote enough and announced plans to affect forward with measures that would take precedence of the ruling.

Incendiary comments by opposed to change talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who called Georgetown University code student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and "pervert" for speaking out in support of the Obama management, helped Democrats reframe the issue to their civil advantage, analysts said.

Limbaugh, who has misspent advertisers who found his comments objectionable, has since apologized.

"It looked like each attack on women and women are the greater number of the electorate," she Jennifer Lawless of the Women and Politics Institute at American University.

A Kaiser Family Foundation survey last week of 1,500 adults showed not remotely two-thirds of Americans favor Obama's wit, including clear majorities of Catholics and evangelicals.

A number of religious groups have filed lawsuits challenging the modern rule.

Republican strategist Ron Bonjean, a forgoing congressional aide, said House Speaker John Boehner has unblemished reason to schedule a vote up~ the body a measure to overturn the exercise supreme authority.

"While jobs and the economy are the compute one issue, this is one of those recess issues that can really make a difference in the election among Catholic voters," he said.

"They respond well to the consummation of religious freedoms," he added. "If Catholic congregations attend that Republicans are on their oblique, that can only help them in November."

(Reporting By Donna Smith; editing ~ dint of. Marilyn W. Thompson and Todd Eastham)

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