{"id":51246,"date":"2014-06-29T23:54:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T03:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=51246"},"modified":"2014-06-30T18:41:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T22:41:34","slug":"no-cory-gardner-making-contraception-otc-wont-placate-pro-choice-zealots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/no-cory-gardner-making-contraception-otc-wont-placate-pro-choice-zealots\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Cory Gardner, making contraception OTC won&#8217;t placate pro-choice zealots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>If an elephant never forgets, then maybe it\u2019s time for the Republican Party to get a new mascot. Particularly after Ken Cuccinelli\u2019s downplaying of pro-life issues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/make-pro-abortion-extremists-play-defense_775222.html\">utterly failed to make him Virginia\u2019s next governor<\/a>, you\u2019d think the GOP would learn that ignoring subjects their foes want them to ignore is a losing strategy. Alas, it appears these elephants never remember.<\/p>\n<p>To run for Senate against incumbent Democrat Mark Udall, Colorado Republican Rep. Cory Gardner apparently took some pointers from Cuccinelli\u2019s campaign, but tragically seems to have only paid attention to its early days. In March Gardner <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/03\/24\/cory-gardner-changes-position-on-personhood-laws\/\">renounced his prior support<\/a> for state personhood initiatives because of their alleged potential to also restrict contraception, and now he\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/opinion\/ci_25995739\/women-should-be-able-buy-pill-without-prescription\">made another offering<\/a> to appease the War-on-Women types:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The least loved institution in America today is the U.S. Senate, and one of the reasons it is reviled is a zero-sum approach to women&#8217;s medical care. It&#8217;s time we changed that and adopt modern policies that make sense instead of using women&#8217;s medical issues as an election-year power play. One of the most rational ways for Washington to break this gridlock is to approve oral contraception for over-the-counter purchases by adults.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Since &#8220;the pill&#8221; was first approved 44 years ago, it&#8217;s been one of the most proven and tested pharmaceuticals of our time. It is safe, reliable, effective, and presents very few risks or complications for the more than 10 million women who use it [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Since January 2011, an obscure provision of Obamacare has blocked insurers from covering OTC medicine without a prescription. If Democrats are serious about making oral contraception affordable and accessible, we can reverse that technical provision.<\/p>\n<p>Driving the price down for a safe medicine is a better way to provide access to adults who want it than President Obama&#8217;s insurance mandate. Many women don&#8217;t have access today in spite of the Obamacare mandate, and it violates religious liberty in the process. If a new generation of senators puts partisanship aside, we can protect the liberties of women to have easy access to affordable oral contraception at the same time we protect the rights of those with conscience objections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You may recall our <a href=\"\/news\/bobby-jindals-birth-control-proposal-is-an-exercise-in-futility\/\">discussing this idea in 2012<\/a> when Louisiana GOP Governor (and likely presidential candidate) Bobby Jindal proposed it. Like Gardner, Jindal pushed this as a common-sense way to de-politicize birth control. But it was wishful thinking then, and it\u2019s no more viable today.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, all pro-lifers should make clear we\u2019re not interested in taking away anyone\u2019s non-abortive birth control. One of the best ways to do that is to keep shouting from the rooftops facts such as Hobby Lobby <a href=\"\/news\/hobby-lobbys-contraceptive-case-heads-to-supreme-court\/\">providing 16 different types of contraception even before ObamaCare came along<\/a> and dragged them into court for \u201cdictating female employees\u2019 fertility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But attempting to punt on <em>all<\/em> contraception comes at a great cost: the lives snuffed out by <a href=\"\/news\/does-the-obama-mandate-force-you-to-pay-for-abortions\/\">those drugs that function as abortifacients<\/a>. The earliest days of pregnancy may be the most politically scary ground for a politician to stand firm on, because that\u2019s when <a href=\"\/news\/what-if-we-applied-pro-aborts-anti-intellectualism-to-other-scientific-questions\/\">people seem the least human<\/a> to the uninformed, and because pro-aborts have done so much to sow ignorance about whether there\u2019s even an embryo there to be destroyed prior to implantation. But if you\u2019re truly pro-life and sincerely believe these are victims in desperate need of protection, then how can you justify giving that misinformation campaign your tacit endorsement?<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the abortion lobby doesn&#8217;t believe in political cease-fires. As I argued regarding Jindal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a matter of policy, pro-aborts\u2019 thorough bastardization of the word \u201caccess\u201d proves that fewer legal obstacles to purchasing birth control won\u2019t appease them. Only unconditional surrender on unfettered abortion, taxpayer-subsidized birth control, and forced private coverage of both will satisfy them. Sure, pharmacists would no longer have to worry about prescribing contraception, but all that means is that the Abortionquisition would refocus its wrath on those who choose not to stock it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since then, pro-aborts\u2019 scorched-earth approach to abortion-on-demand has only intensified. They\u2019re so enraged by pregnancy centers that exist to provide more choices than abortion that they&#8217;ve <a href=\"\/news\/democrats-conspire-to-control-speech-of-crisis-pregnancy-centers\/\">pushed legislation<\/a> to silence them. They&#8217;ve <a href=\"\/news\/fact-check-pro-choice-sites-make-false-statements-in-susan-b-anthony-list-case\/\">tried to criminalize<\/a> the act of telling the truth about their political candidates. They&#8217;ve <a href=\"\/news\/the-real-anti-choicers-rh-reality-check-argues-pro-life-doctors-should-be-forced-to-perform-abortions\/\">openly argued<\/a> that medical practitioners don\u2019t even have the right not to participate in abortion.<\/p>\n<p>And just this week, we saw the Supreme Court <a href=\"\/news\/breaking-pro-life-victory-as-massachusetts-buffer-zone-law-struck-down\/\">strike down Massachusetts&#8217;s 35-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics<\/a>, yet the fact that <em>not even one<\/em> of the pro-choice activist Justices could devise an excuse to dissent hasn&#8217;t fazed these people. Where a halfway self-aware pro-choicer would have taken the \u201cunanimous\u201d part as a wake-up call, Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Cecile Richards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/about-us\/newsroom\/press-releases\/planned-parenthood-our-patients-and-staff-will-be-protected\/\">instead deployed the usual bluster<\/a> about \u201cthis decision show[ing] a troubling level of disregard for American women.\u201d Yes, tell us more about how Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor sold\u00a0out to the patriarchy.<\/p>\n<p>These are the hallmarks not of a movement that strongly disagrees with us, but of one that can\u2019t stand having to share a country with us\u2014and that has no qualms about using the law to do something about it. If he really wants to be a senator, Congressman Gardner should think long and hard about whether this bunch is likely to appreciate olive branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If an elephant never forgets, then maybe it\u2019s time for the Republican Party to get a new mascot. Particularly after Ken Cuccinelli\u2019s downplaying of pro-life issues utterly failed to make him Virginia\u2019s next governor, you\u2019d think the GOP would learn that ignoring subjects their foes want them to ignore is a losing strategy. 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