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Nikki Haley: ‘Women don’t care about contraception’
Republican South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Tuesday said that the Obama administration had made a mistake by mandating that health insurance cover birth control because “women don’t care about contraception.” During an appearance on ABC’s The View, co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked Haley how conservatives could make the case that…
Poll: Majority of voters want Limbaugh fired
A majority of Americans say that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh should be off the air after he called a Georgetown University law student a “slut” and a “prostitute” over her support for contraception, according to a recently released poll. An even larger majority said that birth control should not…
Arizona lawmaker compares contraception mandate to Soviet Union
An Arizona legislators believes that requiring religious employers to provide health insurance coverage for birth control is something a totalitarian regime would propose. “We live in America. We don’t live in the Soviet Union,” Republican state Rep. Debbie Lesko told KTAR. “The government shouldn’t be telling mom-and- pop employers and…
Democrats leading GOP by 25 points among women
The Republican fight against health care rights for women may end up hurting the party on election day, according to a new poll. A Washington Post survey released Monday found that Democrats are perceived as caring more about issues that are important to women by 25 points, 55 percent to…
How Republicans completely misjudged this
After the Blunt amendment went down, I figured that, policy-wise, Republicans were out of options in their desperate bid to separate middle and working class women from simple access to contraception. It was their single best shot, after all, and it frankly wasn’t a very good one. Unfortunately, the war…
Study shows birth control saves taxpayer money
In recent weeks, conservatives have complained about being forced to pay for other people’s birth control, but a recently released study indicates that increasing availability to contraception actually saves taxpayer money. A report released by The Brookings Institution this week showed that a $235 million program to expand access to…
The right wing panic reaction
Let’s be clear: Rush Limbaugh didn’t actually apologize to Sandra Fluke and the 99% of American women that use contraception that he’s dismissed with words such as “slut” and “prostitute”. He only apologized for not using better euphemisms. He maintains that his argument—that nearly every single woman in America is…
Well done, Republicans!
Oh, congressional Republicans. There were two ways you could have reacted when Obama gave you what you said you wanted, which was to allow Catholic hospitals and universities not to cover contraception directly for their employees. You could have accepted the compromise gracefully and let it go, or double down…
Eventually, every comedian will take a crack at this one
Conservatives are mad that Democrats picked a fight about contraception—apparently the rules they wrote said Democrats don’t get to pick a fight—and now they’re forced, forced I tell you, to go full wingnut and denounce all women having ready access to the contraception they need. Well, it’s a real shame…
Fighting the mansplaining anti-sex police
While I was not feeling up to much writing these past couple of days, that didn’t stop me from provoking anti-choicers on Twitter to disparage contraception, so that I could then retweet them and help further understanding of where the attack on reproductive rights are coming from. After all, it’s…
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