Yes. Plus it's about creating a false choice in the eyes of the easily led: The Republicans (the bishops) want to take away your birth control. They (the bishops, old guys, tea party) want to make birth control illegal!!
The Democrats will protect your birth control; The Repubs want to take it away.
It's a false choice but the Democratic Party operatives and their minions in the national press and universities are broadcasting this message to the uninformed and the hysteria is speading on social media. "OMG we need to vote for Obama to save our birth control"
This is a planned, cultivated and devious plot to discredit the Catholic Church hierarchy and mischaracterize the Republican position on religious freedom.
We are living in an anti-clerical age, just like during the reign of terror in post revolutionary France, in early 20th century Portugal, and in the period before the Spanish Civil War. In each of these examples, anticlericism resulted in civil wars followed by dictatorships, Napoleon in France, Salazar in Portugal and Franco in Spain.
History proves that anti-clericism is a very anti-democratic movement and has been fatal to republics.
Those who plant the seeds of anti-clericism, do so at great risk to the republic.
And "if" (not an "if" I know) their GOAL is the destruction of the republic to be replaced with something else?
I got into a big Obi-Wan vs Darth Maul argument with a left-wing Catholic (in our parish kitchen, no less)-- clear the teacups, ladies! --- and finally got her to admit that what we were talking about was the extinction of all practicing Catholic educational and medical institutions in America--- not just "practicing medical," but "practicing Catholic" --- because she "in principle" wanted to force HER CHURCH to pay for HER BIRTH CONTROL.
It was an enlightening moment.
It may be uncharitable, but I hope she leaves St. Mary's. I hope she finds herself a nice little "Church of Christ Without Christ" where, as Flanner O'Connor said, "the lame don't walk, and the blind don't see, and what's dead stays that way."