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Delighted by the ruling which they hope to use to scare women to the polls and salvage their shaky midterm prospects. again, you know, it s interesting, yes, four months is a long away away. the issue of women s health, contraception, it s not a bleeding topic. let me tell grow a women s mind and not you were implying that. there are, you re right, to your point topics that fade out as time goes on. this certainly has, i think, sticking power for obvious reasons for women. you re right. it s not a fleeting issue. i think what has a sticking power. the battle over contraception in the general. we ve seen democrats being able to capitalize on 2012. republicans making mistakes. whether it was todd akin s remarks in the 2012 missouri senate contest or others where republicans in either intensionally or not being against some contraception. ....
Administration official tells cnn they have no way of determining who has paid for coverage and the white house has yet to reveal who exactly is signing up. the current makeup of the 2.1 million that have enrolled, we don t know if they re younger or older folks. if they re older folks, numbers related to how you pay for the law are going to be busted. as for the battle over contraception, obama administration has until friday to respond to sotomayor s order and there are more legal fights to come over the issue as the supreme court is already expected to sort out the birth control mandate and obamacare later this year. thank you very much. happy new year. happy new year. talk more about the supreme court delay of obamacare and contraception ruling with archbishop joseph kurts of louisville kentucky, on the phone, president of u.s. conference of catholic bishops. thank you for joining us this new year s day. you wrote this appeal to president obama. what s the acceptable alte ....
It would be paid for by the insurance company. this whole notion that republicans are trying to deny people contraception is ridiculous. they can go to pharmacies. this is in the president s health care bill. this is nothing the republicans did. joan walsh? first of all the associate came out for the compromise. they like what president obama did. second of all, it is merely regulating insurance companies and saying they should provide contraception without a co-pay. frankly because it saves them money. it s been ridiculous that all of these years we ve had to pay steep costs for contraception because it actually saves the insurer money and the employer money. and there was always a religious exemption. churches were always carved out of this. so they are i m sorry, ron, i like you, you are the ones who have made this an issue. the president brought it out immediately came to a compromise when he saw that there was some objection. everyone has moved on. everyone likes the compr ....
President is having this wonderful forum for women and scott walker is actually signing a bill that reduces equal pay protection for women. so it s not just about contraception. that s really the funny part. you ve got a republican party that is behind the ryan budget, which slashes medicaid, slashes medicare, which disproportionately helps women. there s so many issues beyond contraception, and it s not democrats making republicans do these things that women perceive as hurting their interests. ron christie, is it immediate creation this whole notion that the gop is at war with women? of course, it is, michael. i find it ironic, here we are in april of an election year and the democrats have nothing to say whatsoever about the president s record. and instead they go ahead and manufacture crises. in this particular case, i think it s very offensive we have brave men and women on the battlefields in afghanistan and iraq in an actual war and yet you hear propaganda saying the republi ....
Don t like to have them pointed out to them. but women are seeing it. ron, you ll have the chance to respond to that, but let me put it in the context of alaska republican senator lisa murkowski and what she said. she took a tough line against her own party when she told a radio station she couldn t believe the gop has been making an issue out of contraception and here s the quote. it makes no sense to make this attack on women. if you don t feel this is an attack, you need to go home and talk to your wife and your daughters. your thoughts? i like senator murkowski, but she s dead wrong on this. it s president obama and obama care that has made it the issue here. the fact of the matter is, the president came out with a unilateral proclamation and said if you are an institution of faith and providing services, you have to provide contraception even if that s against your religious tennance. it s president obama who is doing this, michael. and the thing i would point out is the presi ....