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Kennedy family isn’t only interpreter of senator’s legacy

  February 29, 2012

When Edward Kennedy referred in a letter to “conscience protection’’ regarding health insurance, was he referring only to abortion? Or, did he also mean to extend “conscience protection’’ to church-affiliated institutions that oppose insurance coverage for contraception? While Kennedy family members have every right to express an opinion about what they think he meant, so does US Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts.

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