Rachel Maddow: Republican Party Is Waging War On Contraception

from HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/05/rachel-maddow-republicans_n_1255772.html?ref=media


Rachel Maddow on NBC's "Meet The Press"

"Roughly 80 percent of people say that anybody providing health insurance should be required to cover contraception. And so there is a way you can try to make this into a religious freedom issue but...campaigning against the availability of birth control in America is going to run into a 21st century ceiling," Maddow said.

Maddow later said, "the idea that the Catholic church is being forced to do something that, as a church, it does not want to do is a misnomer...The question here is...when you want to become a health insurance provider, you must follow the rules of providing health insurance. And in this country, that means you have to cover contraception."

Castellanos began to interrupt Maddow but she continued. "You guys only want to make this about religion, but listen," Maddow said. "The administration made this only about religion—ask the Bishop," Castellanos said as he talked over Maddow.

Maddow ended her comment by saying that the Republican party was "waging war on contraception at this point."


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