There appears to be the supposition that all Catholic women adhere to the Catholic tradition.
Who knows and I could care less IF Rick Santorum and his wife practiced Catholic tradition... But Rick has what is it 7 children? Now I personally know Catholic women who do not practice Catholic tradition and they go to church more than one time a week, and some are what would be considered 'devoted' Catholics in the traditional sense. Somewhere along the way UNIVERSAL healthcare became Catholic mantra, at least out of the mouths of the priests I have heard describe their doctrine.
Just like Occupy Wall Street was put into motion to politically deal with Mitt Romney representing that 'evil' 1%.
Like it or not large numbers of the Catholic church are liberal voting democrats. And a large number of them view the Church tradition on contraception as out of date and out of touch.
I suspect the objective was to divert attention but yet to draw attention given how many in the Catholic church support and demand 'UNIVERSAL' health care.... of Teddy Kennedy's life work. So the 'church' is going to have to rethink their demand of 'UNIVERSAL' health care if they intend to maintain their contraception tradition.
Why the Catholic church thought it had to get behind that process is a real good question.
They supported that in Europe and that's a big mess now. Children are starving in the streets in Greece, their parents having abandoned them because they have no income. There's still universal health care there ~ if you really want it ~ and how long will that last.