While Rick Santorumand the Catholic Churchare continuing to fuel backlash over the Obama administration’s compromise to allow insurance companies to cover birth control for employees of faith-based organizations, new polling data indicates that Americans – even Catholics – support access to birth control in overwhelming numbers. The heat of the discourse stands in stark contrast to the GOP's stance as recently as January, when the issue was brought up in a question to Mitt Romneyin a debate prior to the New Hampshire primary.
Here to give us some insight into the lesser-talked about aspects of the war on birth control is Ellen Chesler, Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Instituteand author of an article that caught our eye, "The Long History of the War Against Contraception,”posted at New Deal 2.0.
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Mother Jones' Birth Control Calculator
New Hampshire Legislature adds birth control policy repealto housekeeping bill
