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August 22, 2007
Quick Hit: The quiet campaign against birth control
Cristina Page, author of the great book How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex (and Vice President of the Institute for Reproductive Health Access at NARAL Pro-Choice New York!), has a terrific article in the The Baltimore Sun.
At National Right to Life's conference this year, Mitt Romney set out to convince anti-abortion leaders he was their candidate. At the podium, he rattled off his qualifications. To a layman's ears, it sounded pretty standard for abortion politics. He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. He supports teaching only abstinence to teens.But for those trained to hear the subtleties, Mr. Romney was acknowledging something more. He implied an opposition to the birth control pill and a willingness to join in their efforts to scale back access to contraception. There are code phrases to listen for - and for those keeping score, Mr. Romney nailed each one.
Read the whole article here.
Posted by Jessica at August 22, 2007 11:43 AM