this language reappeared in the recent birth control debate, MSM talking point
It’s actually based on a core tenet, a base assumption of leftist ideology.
If a person does not have the means to exercise a “right”, then that “right” is effectively being denied to him. And based on another core assumption/tenet, the government as the guarantor of rights is then responsible for making the means available to him to exercise that right.
Understanding the liberal ideology doesn’t make me sympathize with it in the least, but it keeps the keyboard prints off my forehead.