How did Contraception become such a hot

[Anonymous]

political topic. This is regression and it is scary, scary, scary. How long will it be before someone comes up with the idea that we should lose the right to vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:political topic. This is regression and it is scary, scary, scary. How long will it be before someone comes up with the idea that we should lose the right to vote.

What I can't believe is that so many women have their heads in the sand. Conservative, Moderate, or Liberal, and women are all standing around doing little or nothing. All the gains women have made since 1960 are about to be flushed down the darn toilet. Contraception, abortion rights ... what's next?

It's like the politician feel emboldened by the popularity of the show Mad Men and want to bring us all back to that era.

I'll be fighting - for my daughters' rights, except I don't live in Virginia.

Reps - put us Santorum for President, and I'll be voting for Obama for sure. Damn the economy.

[Anonymous]

This has nothing to do with limiting accessto birth control.. Itis about religious institutions Having the right not to have to pay for something that they dont believe in. Makes sense to me. Who is trying to limit access to birth control??

[Anonymous]

Religious institutions are not paying for anything
The health plan that they provide for their workers is standard cost of employing people
For a health plan to include the cost of contraceptive coverage - really not expensive, and the employee in most cases has to pay for half of this.
A health plan pays for the cost of many other coverages, and rarely does anyone use every benefit.

In a nutshell, a religious employer wants the right to limit an employees access to birth control. Regardless of what the employee believes. Or you could say that the church does not trust women employees to make their own descisions

[Anonymous]

And yet they'll continue to pay for Viagra -- which is simply used to enable fornication.

[Anonymous]

It's become such an issue because there aren't enough women in the back rooms when decisions are being made who can smack the men in the face before they go public with such nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's become such an issue because there aren't enough women in the back rooms when decisions are being made who can smack the men in the face before they go public with such nonsense.

[Anonymous]

It's part of the ultimate plan to get Roe v. Wade overturned. The case that originally established the Constitutional right of privacy used to uphold abortion in Roe was Griswold v. Connecticut, which overturned a Connecticut law which prohibited the use of contraceptives. I think all these attacks on contraception are designed to somehow create a case for the Supreme Court where they can readdress the right of privacy created by Griswold.

[Anonymous]

because the conservatives don't have a platform for the immediate economic issues facing this country. social sound bites are cheap and sell well to the base. but talking about the economy, state of health care, etc - well that is really hard when you don't have solutions that benefit the masses vs. the elites.

[Anonymous]

As a liberal, I love it because it will actually motivate women to vote in the fall if we continue down this path. Before the GOP pulled this crap I had friends who were uninterested in the election but now they are fired up. Ready to go! And I thought this would be a tough race. Good job GOP morons.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure why conservatives are letting themselves be drawn into this battle, as folks simply aren't up in arms over birth control the way they are over abortion or gay marriage. Andrew Sullivan thinks Obama's picking a fight with the right over an issue where the right is the weakest.

Even Bob McDonnell in VA is trying to rein in his folks, as he realizes this focus on guns and abortion won't sell -- at all -- in Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, and Henrico.