Whether youre joining us in the room here, and i lot of you are, or your joining us online, thank you for being here our smart women, smart power event tonight. Were excited and delighted that seven ambassadors currently representing their countries here in washington can join us for a look at the view of the u. S. From abroad. And as you may have noticed, they happen to all be female ambassadors and they are just a subset of those representing their countries here in washington. Before we begin, ill get to introducing the ambassadors in a few moments, but first i want to give you a few social media reminders. We hope youre following us on twitter smart women and there should have been hand outs. Hopefully you got them with all the ambassadors twitter handles and if youre live tweeting we ask that you use the cse live. We do have a itunes course with our smart women events. We hope that youre following those as well. Our smart women smart power Speaker Series wouldnt be possible withou
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Argument that this is such a compelling interest. Right. But let me try to walk through this carefully, because i do think its important. Theyve identified three. First is grandfathered plans. Weve had a lengthy discussion about that. I dont think you can argue that that exemption undermines the governments compelling interests. They claim that theres an exemption for employers who have fewer than 50 employees, but thats just wrong. In fact, theres no reason to think that virtually anybody in that category of employees of those small employers isnt getting contraceptive coverage as part of their regular health care from regular doctors. Let me explain why that is. There is no exemption from the contraceptive coverage requirement for that group. Proof of it is that several petitioners are in that group of fewer than 50 employees. And theyre asking for the and theyre asking for and theyve raised the rfra claim here, they have to meet the contraceptive coverage so the employees get the co