So how will the politics of the great contraception wars pan out for the right? Badly, if I had to guess. Given time, the notion (true or false) that this is an argument about religious freedom will fade from the public mind and what will be left, reinforced by the depressing persistence of Santorum in the Republican race, is a vague sense that the GOP is opposed to contraception, and that will not play well, not at all.
Already there’s this:
A Fox News poll released Friday showed a large majority, 61 percent, of Americans approve of requiring employer health plans to cover birth control for women. Thirty-four percent disapproved. The nationwide survey was conducted by telephone among 1,110 registered voters Feb. 6-9 and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points, the network said.
And that poll is not alone. Obama must be laughing.
“61 percent, of Americans approve of requiring employer health plans to cover birth control for women.”
It has always amazed me that even otherwise sensible people turn into raving Marxists as soon as anyone whispers the words “health care”.
I don’t have the right to tell you how to run your company. Everything else is sophistry.