I strongly disagree that a state has any right to have any say about contraception for a myriad of reasons. And the majority of citizens will agree with me and this will be the end of Santorum’s campaign if he does not abandon it. It is a no win situation for him. Where are his advisors?
Santorum talks of the government inventing rights, when obviously they have no such power to do so, and they did no such thing.
They recognized our natural right that has always existed, and at the expense of the government power to enforce compliance, in one of the most personal and private domains of human interaction.
He doesn't not want to outlaw or regulate contraception because he doesn't believe in Government power to do such things - he DOES want it to be outlawed at the STATE level.
Electoral considerations aside - his fundamental philosophy on the natural rights of man and individual liberty are anathema to me - and should be to any conservative who believes in a government of limited and enumerated powers and the sovereignty of the citizen.