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Why Right-Wingers' Hatred of Modern Women Is Going to Cost Them the Birth Control Battle
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/154224/why_right-wingers%27_hatred_of_modern_women_is_going_to_cost_them_the_birth_control_battle_%28and_a_whole_lot_of_votes%29/For many pundits and politicians on the Right, the visceral impulse to shame women for being in control of their own sexuality is so overwhelming that they appear to be totally incapable of maintaining their usual message discipline. That's going to cost them the fight over contraception.
The polling on the Obama administration's recent accommodation with the Catholic bishops reveals an important trend. When the issue is framed as a battle over religious liberty for institutions associated with the church, Americans are deeply divided. When it's about access to contraception, they're not overwhelming majorities are in favor of mandating that religiously affiliated employers provide their workers with insurance that covers birth control.
The numbers don't lie. A Pew poll that offered little in the way of explanation of the new rule asked those who had heard about it (62 percent of respondents) whether religiously affiliated institutions that object to the use of contraceptives should be given an exemption from the rule, and found that a plurality sided with the bishops (by a margin of 48-44).
But a CBS/ New York Times Poll found that when some background was offered, and the question was worded a bit differently so that the emphasis was on contraception (Should religious employers be required to cover contraception?), the results were very different. Both self-identified Catholics and the larger public favored the rule by a healthy 2-1 margin.
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Why Right-Wingers' Hatred of Modern Women Is Going to Cost Them the Birth Control Battle (Original Post)
xchrom
Feb 2012
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tanyev
(42,567 posts)1. Isn't the real question "Should your health insurance be required to cover contraception?"
Even before Obama's compromise, the religious employers would have been indirectly paying.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)2. I hope so!
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)3. Yeah, just like all of their other radical positions have cost
them over the last 20 years.
One of the biggest problems for lib & Dems is believing that we can just sit and watch the Repukes drive off a cliff. that's a huge reason that it's now beyond repair.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)4. I can't say you're wrong.
However I have begun to consider the lack of appropriate response suits certain dem positions?