The New York Times 03/02/12 Robert Pear
“Senate Rejects Step Targeting Contraception: A Narrow Vote Back Obama on Coverage”
The Senate on Thursday upheld President Obama’s birth control policy, voting to kill a Republican effort to let employers and health insurance companies deny coverage for contraceptives and other items they object to on religious or moral grounds.
The 51-to-48 vote illustrated a sharp divide between the parties and brought to the Congressional forefront the social issues that have roiled the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Over four days of debate, Democrats accused Republicans of infringing on women’s rights and focusing on issues long settled while Republicans accused Democrats of threatening religious freedom and violating the Constitution.
“The Senate will not allow women’s health care choices to be taken away from them,” said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington.
Democrats saw the issue tilting politically in their favor in recent days and forced the Senate vote
Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, said Republicans were attacking women’s health care as part of “a systematic war against women.”
Democrats argued that Republicans were trying to turn back the clock on women’s rights and pursuing an extreme right-wing social agenda that should scare voters in this election year.
Common Sense Review
I find it odd that the Democrats who are “fighting for women’s rights” are really enslaving them. This idea that government grants women contraception basically states that women cannot do it for themselves and must be taken care of. Gee, why don’t we just force all the women back in the kitchen, bare foot and pregnant…
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