Why are conservatives making contraception an issue now?

This has been their dirty little secret all along....the pro life group is not only against abortion, they are also against most forms of birth control. Obviously they feel that the time is right to bring this to the fore front. Only problem is they are clearly in the minority about this and in all likely hood it will cost them the election. Not just the presidency, but also the house and in many state houses also.

they are crazy and they are afraid the minorities are going to take over the white people

Serious question: does this "contraception" flap also include vasectomies?

They got nothing else. Poor guys. I almost feel sorry for them in their desperate gasps, like a school of dying ratfish on the deck of a ship of fools.

Simple, and it really has less to do with religion than you think. It's about money and power.

You see, people are CHOOSING smaller families. They are delaying marriage and household formation. People who see little economic future for themselves don't willingly bring children into the world so that they can be born into the same indentured servitude their parents have found themselves in.

It's scaring the .001%. Where will they get the bodies to feed the Corporate War Machine? Who will fill the pews and collections plates at the Mega-Churches. By GOD, and I mean by GOD, if people won't have children on their own, we'll make them do it for God and Country.

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So we will get distracted from the assault on voting rights. We will take our eye off the ball, divert funding to fighting this, and not get voters registered under the new rules and able to vote in November. If Progressives, Dems and Indies vote, Repugs lose across the board and this entire discussion becomes moot.

Because Progressive Democrats have failed to make VIAGRA coverage an issue! That'll shut 'em up! Jeebus!

Because they can. Because they continue to chip away at women's rights because that is the basis of their power: patriarchy, with money and God on their side. And guns...

Because DINOs like Obama forget that over half the population is female and their rights have been fought for and won until the Conservatives took control of the dialogue. This has to stop.

Isn't it obvious? My question is, why does the other side always accomodate them and let them drive the debate?

Well, they can't attack the ecomomy, it's getting better. they can't attack his personal life, he's a good family man. they can't attack his birth place, he was born in the US. They can't attack his Defense policies, he's got most of our enemies. Wow. I guess their just running out of things to attack.

EVERY ELECTION YEAR...they can't run on anything but imposing social inequity based on religious freedom. THEY GUILT the flock and then the flock become 1 issue voters, hence they end up voting against their own interests and themselves.

It's a wedge issue and they know it. President Obama's effort to solve the problem will fall on deliberately dogmatic deaf ears. Conservatives are shameless in their desire to block anything this president does.

"as it was pointed out on UP with Chris Hayes....progressives are winning and the right sees itself losing ground....over and over they lose on these so called culture war issues...a war on women and people of color declared by them

Because the economy is no longer a viable issue,Dems allow this pivot to social because there aren't enough surrogates the keep the msm honest,this is a war on women & every Dem needs to be in front of a camera saying so,20 to 30 repub hve rushed to the microphone to push their message,look at the pushback against Komen repetition is effective.

Conservatives are misogynist, anti women and they especially do not want to help any poor person.

while it is okay for their party's members to not practice what they preach, it is okay as a means to divide the Democrats' votes to their party of slander. Or they just want poor unintelligent people to have more children so that eventually they will fight among themselves and corporations and industry can offer jobs at lower wages and make more millions.

It's simple. They are pissed because the administration announced a policy requiring contraception to be provided to workers of religious institutions at no cost to the worker. The administration will roll this policy back through compromise.

They are supported by white male billionaires who don't care about women, minorities, or the poor. They will continue to try to undo our rights just so they can defeat our President.

-because we keep telling them to fuck themselves.

The Church is against contraception and the right is all over it. If I remember correctly, the Church was against the war yet the right ignored that position. What's the deal righties??

It angers me to no end as a woman feeling that I am under attack by a bunch of men who have no clue living life in the real world. I REFUSE to have anyone tell me what I can or cannot do with my body...and as long as Viagra, Cialis, or any other E.D. drug is paid for by insurance so should the pill

To protect big pharma

because as you can see thay have no ideas or plans on how tohelp fix the mess that they have caused, first they attacked the unions now they're after womens rights!! would you mind explaining to me what these attacks have to do with getting peopls back to work and to also keep their homes! what a bunch of crap! the sad thing is that the american people are falling for this!

Misdirection. When this occurs, expect other things are going on where you aren't looking.

They have nothing left to go after the President with.

A civil dialogue would not produce headline grabbing news attention and get the Republican candidates the quantity of TV coverage they are hoping for.

Those guys just want to stir up spin and say Obama is an anti-religious religious man. The whole thing is so ridiculous! They are basically arguing over their own different interpretations of the bill and dragging it out as long as possible. Rather than sit down, talk civilly and arrive at a resolution that works for everyone.

Gingrich and Co still haven't worked out that they do not have to take contraception. It is such a scary word that these poor men are frightened they may possibly have to use it themselves. The contraceptive pill is not only for women boys, I hear there is a new pill that men can take too, but only if they want to.

If you want to abstain, that is your choice. If you are really radical you could even try immaculate conception!

Because they can't run on the economy, terrorism or fear any more. This is the last issue they think they can run on which will gain them votes.

They are grabbing at any and all straws. If President Obama is for it, they are against it. The GOP is hoping that the American publics memory is short, and that they will not notice that their candidates did or did not espouse exactly the same position. If you are falling off a cliff, you might as well flap your arms and try to fly, because that is all that is left to do. Conservativews will beat the opposition with anything that will work, whether they believe in it or not. They are quick to God bless everything every third word, but in the bible it says even the Devil can quote scripture.

The Catholic Church's "hissy-fit" surrounding the idea of their employee health care plans having the provision for contraceptives reminds me of the same hypocrisy in which the Church's swept their pedophilia problem under the rug. It would seem this health
care act isn't asking the Church to abandon its opposition to contraceptives, it's just saying that most women, to include Catholic
women [98% have used contraceptives], need to be provided access to such pills. In truth, the Catholic Church has already lost
the war in convincing Catholic women that contraceptives are bad and against Church teaching, that when they make this argument in opposition to providing contraceptive coverage in their health care plans, it just magnifies the Church's "stoneheadedness" and hypocrisy. The Church could single-handedly end this debate by acknowledging the reality of the times
and move on.

Albert Colone
Oneonta, NY 13820