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.