Mark my words: Contraception is the next front in the war on women. And we can't say we haven't been warned.
In 2010, when the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — was close to passing, Republicans argued strenuously against requiring companies to provide contraception as a health care benefit. Many argued that all forms of female contraception are tantamount to abortion.
A couple of years later, a man who was briefly a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, promised to be the first president to discuss the "dangers of contraceptives in this country." Contraception, Santorum told a Christian political blogger, "is not OK. ... it's a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be."
