Maddow: The GOP ‘is waging a war on contraception’

[kpete]

“80 percent of people say that insurance — anybody providing health insurance should be required to cover contraception,” she said. “So there is a way you can try to make this into a religious freedom issue. But all of the Republican field has gone very, very far right specifically on the issue of contraception and they get a great response for it from the Republican primary audience. But campaigning against the availability of birth control in America is going to run into a 21st century ceiling.”


Castellanos and Brooks unsurprisingly didn’t share Maddow’s sentiment, feeling that the administration was impeding on religious freedom.

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Maddow then pivoted back to Republican candidates’ extreme views on birth control.

“Mitt Romney is campaigning saying that he would like to end-all family support at the federal level and eliminate that,” he said. “And Rick Santorum says he would like to make contraception illegal. And the Republican party is waging a war on contraception, and that is where the discussion is at.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/05/maddow-the-gop-is-waging-a-war-on-contraception/

[spooky3]

1. Others have said it before, but I'll say it again

If the spouses and partners of people who agree with these views on contraception would simply tell their partners that they won't engage in relations until their views are less Neanderthal, I suspect those people would change their views quickly. My apologies to Neanderthals.