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I see you have bought into the media's defense of obama's health care law, and it's trampling of the Bill of Rights.Right now I think the Republicans are crazy, or purposefully trying to lose the election, condemning contraception. ABortion I can admit is controversial, but contraception is not, atleast it should not be. I for one like to have sex without condoms, and without my woman bearing a child. Definitely not going to get my vote if thats the issue they're running on, because I like women more than I like guns.
Right off the bat, Obama will have atleast 60% or more of women voting for him this election just because of Republicans making an issue out of reproductive health issues that only focus on the woman, and not the male in the equation of what it takes to make a baby.
The debate, when properly framed, isn't about ANYONE "condemning contraception." It is about government dictating a health care insurance provision that requires a religious organization to pay insurance premiums for contraception and abortion, when that religious organization is fundamentally opposed to those practices.
IOW, it's a first amendment - religious freedom issue.
The only aspect of contraception Republican candidates are "condemning," is why obamacare insists Catholics for example, are required to pay for something their doctrine forbids.
Essentially, obamacare is breaching the "wall of separation between church and state" that Jefferson proposed.
Particularly in the area of $10.00/mo birth control pills. No political party is saying you can't or shouldn't buy/use them. They are saying that church organizations that run soup kitchens, hospitals etc., shouldn't be forced to pay for them.
It's been said repeatedly by myself and others that the mainstream media is protecting this president and his misguided policies.
Your explanation of your proposed vote is proof positive that what the media does, works in some cases. Furthermore, that for Americans to get to the truth of the matter, we'll all have to be a little more diligent, and listen closer to ALL sides of the argument, especially if it's not a topic we are already familiar with.
I'll bet if participating insurance companies required you to pay higher healthcare premiums because you owned guns, you'd recognize the hypocrisy when the media lied about it, and tried to promote the hysteria of "gun nuts" and their objections.