Thank You, Melinda Hennenberger! She writes:
The beauty of the current birth-control conversation for Democrats is that they not only have public opinion on their side but have cannily managed to make contraception a front-burner election-year campaign issue — by complaining that Republicans are making it front-burner election-year campaign issue.
The answer, in other words, to the many who are wondering why the Republicans would want to ride such a losing pony is: They don’t.
Eh, is it all as bad as she makes out? I think conservatives have done a great job of making liberty the issue, not contraception. On what criteria is she saying that Dems are winning on this one? I mean, obviously liberal sources like the HuffPost, etc, are focusing on birth control, but is much of the rest of the media? Are moderates and independents listening? Liberals of course will parrot back whatever the party is feeding them, but how about those who are not so rabidly liberal? From my little corner of America I'm just not seeing the situation so grimly, but maybe I'm wrong.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseObama raised this issue on purpose. He's making it seem that Republicans want to keep birth control from the masses. That's not exactly fair but most people don't follow the subtleties enough to see the politics. To them the Republicans are fighting so some employers can withhold contraception from their employees...again not fair but that's how it seems.
It doesn't help when the leading candidate has said that people who use birth control are doing things that are "not right" and are "sexual libertines" for not wanting as many children as "God gives them". It doesn't matter that he said he's not going to try to outlaw it. It's hard to get elected by insulting people and many people are insulted by that.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCould this 'Where are the Women?' entries perhaps be a daily series? You're preaching to the choir here, & while I agree with your point, it's kind of annoying seeing these essentially redundant posts popping up constantly.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWell, Ms. Lopez, YOU and NRO seem to have made contraception a front-burner issue. Yes, yes, I know you want to frame it as religious liberty and all that but it is perceived as the GOP being against contraception. How many articles here on the Corner have been on this subject. Ms. Lopez how many articles have you written "Where are the Women?" If this is what you want the conversation to be about then it is YOU that is making it a front burner issue at the GOP's peril. Good work.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI'm so confused. I thought we were making contraception an issue. And that's why K-Lo keeps stating her views against contraception here 5 times a day:
"It is the Obama administration that forced this conversation we are having about contraception, by violating the religious liberty of those of us who have a moral problem with contraception, sterilization, and abortion."
Right?
Don't give in, K-Lo...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePerhaps it's been discussed elsewhere, but I think we're missing an opportunity here to highlight to Americans another important contrast between conservatives and liberals on this issue. The liberal line has been to the effect of "the GOP wants to ban contraception and assault women's rights." We need to be out there not only talking about the First Amendment/Pro-Life issues, but ALSO that this is what happens when you arbitrarily define something as a "right" that is actually an economic good. To put it quite simply, it's one thing for it to be legal to buy a pack of Trojans, and it's quite another to make someone else pay for it (in this case, the Catholic Church).
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