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The Right Answer on Birth Control
http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2012/02/23/the-right-answer-on-birth-control/
Posted by Dan McLaughlin (Diary)
Thursday, February 23rd at 4:00PM EST

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So, how should a Republican presidential candidate have answered that question? Like this:

“If you’re asking me what I personally believe about birth control, that’s a private issue and it’s none of anybody’s business. People have different moral views about birth control, and they can make their own individual choices in private. It’s a free country.

“But if you’re asking me if the federal government should be involved in contraception, my answer is simple. Barack Obama says it should – he’s the one who wants the federal government to stick its nose into birth control. I say it shouldn’t – you want it, you get it yourself. Tell President Obama that he should repeal the new federal rules, because birth control is none of the federal government’s business.

Even people who don’t agree with social conservatives on moral issues and aren’t especially interested in religious liberty can understand the appeal of freedom and the downsides of having the federal government insert itself into these issues. If Republicans can’t carry a simple message like that, we shouldn’t be in this business