How Republicans Lost the Culture War

[Junior]

Interesting article. This was the most interesting part to me:

 

In fact, during the George W. Bush presidency, Republicans were quite comfortable with the idea of requiring insurers to include contraception in their plans. As the Los Angeles Times chronicled, members of both parties worked on such mandates after women’s groups argued it was unfair for plans to include Viagra but not the pill. The Bush administration chose not to scrap a 2000 rule forcing many employers to cover contraception if they also were covering preventative services and prescription drugs. Twenty-two states, including six with Republican governors, enacted laws that required insurance companies to cover birth control.

Then, Obama.

When the Affordable Care Act mandated the same thing, suddenly Republicans concluded the clause was an attack on religious liberty and an example of government handouts run amok. Conservatives celebrated the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling, which has complicated implementation of the mandate. In a January speech to the Republican National Committee, Huckabee said in disgust, “If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or reproductive system without the help of the government, so be it.”

Nine years earlier, Huckabee had been one of those six Republican governors who signed the same mandate into law.

 

 

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/how-republicans-lost-the-culture-war-111822_Page2.html#ixzz3G2uafpJi

 

 

[carlfense]

The birth control issue is really a mystery. The most logical explanation seems to be that Republicans hate Obama so much that they will use absolutely anything to attack him. Anything. Even if it's something that is both a) popular, and b) previously endorsed by their party.

 

ODS, I suppose.