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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter Backing Anti-Birth Control Blunt Amendment, McCain Now Says GOP Needs To ‘Get Off’ War On Wome
After Backing Anti-Birth Control Blunt Amendment, McCain Now Says GOP Needs To Get Off War On Women
By Ian Millhiser
Earlier this week, an Arizona state senate committee backed a tell your boss why youre on the pill bill that would allow employers to demand proof that their employees are not using birth control for contraceptive purposes before their insurance will cover the pills. In an interview on Meet The Press this morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) slammed this assault on working women, and even urged his fellow Republicans to finally end their lengthy war on womens reproductive health:
Watch it:
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McCains concern for the right of women to make choices is touching, but it is also a very new development. Just this month, McCain backed the Blunt Amendment, a key prong in the GOP war on women that would have allowed employers to veto womens access to contraception through their health plans.
Nevertheless, McCains recent defection from the war on women is both a welcome development and a good political example for his fellow Republicans to follow. More than three-quarters of American agree with McCains new view that Republicans should stop forcing contraception into the national political debate.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/03/18/446721/after-backing-anti-birth-control-blunt-amendment-mccain-now-says-gop-needs-to-get-off-war-on-women/
By Ian Millhiser
Earlier this week, an Arizona state senate committee backed a tell your boss why youre on the pill bill that would allow employers to demand proof that their employees are not using birth control for contraceptive purposes before their insurance will cover the pills. In an interview on Meet The Press this morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) slammed this assault on working women, and even urged his fellow Republicans to finally end their lengthy war on womens reproductive health:
GREGORY: Are you concerned at all to see the focus, with certain elements of the Republican Party, on social issues? In your own state of Arizona, theres this contraception bill that even the governor has said would put women in the uncomfortable position where they had to say to their employers why they wanted contraception, and why it should be covered is that a bad road?
McCAIN: I am confident that that legislation will not reach the governors desk and if it did it would be vetoed. . . . It certainly does not reflect, in my view, the majority view of the people of Arizona.
GREGORY: Do you think that there is something of a war on women among Republicans?
McCAIN: I think we have to fix that. I think that there is a perception out there because of how this whole contraception issue played out ah, we need to get off of that issue, in my view. I think we ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives and make that clear, and get back onto what the American people really care about.
McCAIN: I am confident that that legislation will not reach the governors desk and if it did it would be vetoed. . . . It certainly does not reflect, in my view, the majority view of the people of Arizona.
GREGORY: Do you think that there is something of a war on women among Republicans?
McCAIN: I think we have to fix that. I think that there is a perception out there because of how this whole contraception issue played out ah, we need to get off of that issue, in my view. I think we ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives and make that clear, and get back onto what the American people really care about.
Watch it:
<...>
McCains concern for the right of women to make choices is touching, but it is also a very new development. Just this month, McCain backed the Blunt Amendment, a key prong in the GOP war on women that would have allowed employers to veto womens access to contraception through their health plans.
Nevertheless, McCains recent defection from the war on women is both a welcome development and a good political example for his fellow Republicans to follow. More than three-quarters of American agree with McCains new view that Republicans should stop forcing contraception into the national political debate.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/03/18/446721/after-backing-anti-birth-control-blunt-amendment-mccain-now-says-gop-needs-to-get-off-war-on-women/
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After Backing Anti-Birth Control Blunt Amendment, McCain Now Says GOP Needs To ‘Get Off’ War On Wome (Original Post)
ProSense
Mar 2012
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McCain thinks if the legislation made it to the Governor's desk, she would veto it.
MiniMe
Mar 2012
#1
That's the problem, Johnny. The GOP really IS "Getting Off" over the War on Women.
11 Bravo
Mar 2012
#2
MiniMe
(21,722 posts)1. McCain thinks if the legislation made it to the Governor's desk, she would veto it.
Yeah, right.
McCain is trying to make the Governor who signed the worst immigration law ever look reasonable.
11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)2. That's the problem, Johnny. The GOP really IS "Getting Off" over the War on Women.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)4. Romneys Make Pitch to Women Before Illinois Primary
Romneys Make Pitch to Women Before Illinois Primary
By ASHLEY PARKER
MOLINE, Ill. With the Republican primary race turning into a long and protracted slog for delegates that could potentially last until the convention, Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, made an appeal on Sunday morning to a coveted group of swing voters: women.
I love it that women are upset, too, that women are talking about the economy, I love that, Mrs. Romney said at a pancake breakfast here. Women are talking about jobs; women are talking about deficit spending. Thank you, women.
She concluded, with a direct plea: We need you. We all need you in November, too. We have to remember why were upset and what weve got to do to fix things.
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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/romneys-make-pitch-to-women-before-illinois-primary/
By ASHLEY PARKER
MOLINE, Ill. With the Republican primary race turning into a long and protracted slog for delegates that could potentially last until the convention, Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, made an appeal on Sunday morning to a coveted group of swing voters: women.
I love it that women are upset, too, that women are talking about the economy, I love that, Mrs. Romney said at a pancake breakfast here. Women are talking about jobs; women are talking about deficit spending. Thank you, women.
She concluded, with a direct plea: We need you. We all need you in November, too. We have to remember why were upset and what weve got to do to fix things.
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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/romneys-make-pitch-to-women-before-illinois-primary/
We need you" to help us kill Planned Parenthood and complete the assault on your rights!