What the Anti-Birth Control Movement is Really About  99 percent
of American women who have ever been sexually active have used
birth control.  65 percent of Americans think that insurance
plans should have to cover contraception.  Yet the leaders of
the GOP, in an effort to make it harder for women to obtain
birth control, have sided with a splinter faction of the Right
that wants to allow any employer to prevent any employee from
privately obtaining contraception coverage from their insurance
provider.  Why are they so out of touch? Why have the leaders of
a major party staked out a position on contraception to the
right of 57 percent of American Catholics and an even greater
percentage of the population as a whole?  Here’s a picture of a
panel gathered by the House GOP for a hearing about the issue:
And here’s major Rick Santorum supporter Foster Friess
explaining today why he just doesn’t understand why women need
birth control:   In Virginia yesterday, the state House GOP
pushed through a bill mandating