[Verginius Rufus]

It would help him on the contraception issue—he would have reassured his base that he cares about their concerns, and get the Catholic bishops to shut up since they would be off the hook.

[Buckeye McFrog]

and get the Catholic bishops to shut up since they would be off the hook.

Which would free up a whole lot of Catholic voters to go back to pulling the straight party "D" lever as they've always done, freed from weekly ear-beatings from the pulpit about this.