Romney, Dems go back and forth on contraception (Prelude- Mitt can't run from his past)

Politico ^ | 2-7-12 | Burns

[VinL]

The dueling press releases from Mitt Romney's campaign and the DNC this afternoon shed light on a new issue in the campaign: contraception.

At a campaign event in Colorado last night, Romney criticized the Obama administration's new contraception benefit rule, calling the decision "a violation of conscience."

The DNC shot back today with a press release saying Romney's campaign "misleads" on the issue, pointing out that Massachusetts's health care law kept in place a similar contraception mandate.

"Romney is being hypocritical criticizing the President on contraception when his health care law kept in place a similar state mandate," the release says....

Democrats very much want this to be an issue in the general election, and the controversy over Susan G. Komen for the Cure provides them with an opening in a year defined, as of now, by the economy.

Romney has gotten way out ahead on the issue of conscience protections, and regardless of his own personal views on emergency contraception, his Massachusetts record is a glaring complication.

[VinL]

"He can run, but he can't hide." Heavyweight Champ Joe Lewis

[Buckeye McFrog]

Mitt Romney: Poster Boy for Contraception...

[EGPWS]

Romney, Dems go back and forth on contraception.

[SoFloFreeper]

AFAIK, Romney says the courts and the federal Medicare rules required the abortion/contraception regulations in the Taxachusetts law. Has anyone disproven that assertion?

Obama doesn’t have that restriction...he and his sycophant Sebelius can change that rule if they want...but they choose NOT to do so.

[Jeff Head]

Actually, I believe, if memory serves, that as Governor of Mass that Romney vetoed the contraception rule, but it was over-ridden by the heavily democratic leigslature.

Someone help me out of this is wrong.

If that is correct, the fact that the contraception provision is in the Mass healthcare law can hardly be laid at his feet.

Now, if he didn’t veto it and try to use his power as Goovernor to stop it, that would be an entirely different matter.

[Diogenesis]

Romney brought DEATHCARE to Massachusetts.

DEATHCARE. ROMNEYCARE. OBAMACARE.

We will not vote for ONE (1) GOP candidate
if Romney is at the top of the ticket.

[Timaeus]

If that is correct, the fact that the contraception provision is in the Mass healthcare law can hardly be laid at his feet.

Yes they can you shallow thinker. When you assume the competence of the state to supervise private economic activity to support progressive goals like universal coverage, which is the core premise of RomneyCare, these kinds of rules are the necessary result as personal issues become questions of policy subject to judicial review or legislative reversal.