A provision of President Obama’s health care plan is coming under fire by the Catholic Church. Under the bill, all hospitals including non-profit and religious hospitals will be required to provide no-cost contraceptives including the birth control pill, morning after pill and sterilization services.

Now the government has granted a one year extension to some non-profit groups on religious grounds, but after that year they will have to provide these contraceptive benefits. Archbishop of New York and Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan met personally with President Obama to talk about this matter. Dolan said this was the president’s way of saying, “we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences.”

President of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue spoke out against this decision today on America Live. He explained that the Catholic Church is angry because when President Obama gave the commencement address at Notre Dame in 2009, he promised Catholics that he will respect “conscience rights’’. Donohue said, “For the Federal government to come in and say, after they said they were going to give a religious exemption, that there’s not going to be any, looks like a bully tactic.”

There is an exception but Archbishop Dolan says it’s too narrow. Donohue agreed calling it a catch-22 because only if you’re a Catholic university, hospital, any non-profit organization that services and hires only Catholics, then that institution can be exempt. “One of the great things about the Catholic Church is the catholic with the small ‘c’, it means universal. We service people who are not Catholic. We always have since the immigrants in this country going back hundreds of years ago.”

Donohue says there will be lawsuits, but wonders why the Obama administration would choose to do this in an election year. Megyn Kelly pointed out that funding for this measure was passed by Congress and House Republicans. He says this issue isn’t about cost but about trying to “shove a secular agenda down the throat of Catholics.”