WH: "The President Has Not Changed His Position."

On Friday, President Obama announced what the White House called a "new policy to improve access to contraception." But on Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew indicated that there's nothing new about what the president said.

President Obama on Friday simply "speeded up the process he's now implemented," Lew told CBS's "Face the Nation."

"The president has not changed his position. His position was and is and has been that women have a right to the full range of preventive health, including contraception, and we have to do it in a way that's respectful of religious differences. We have implemented the policy, so I think the president has stuck to his position throughout."

CBS moderator Bob Schieffer asked Lew to clarify: "Are you saying that the president came out Friday and did not change his policy?"

"I think what the president did on Friday was he provided the detail -- the detail was always going to come.

"It is an important principle that women have a right to get all forms of preventive health, including contraception."

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