Ted Cruz Calls Birth Control 'Abortifacients'

[Ichingcarpenter]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Friday repeated the misguided conservative talking point that the birth control coverage rule included in Obamacare forces employers to cover abortion-inducing pills.

Cruz told the crowd at the 2013 Values Voter Summit that the Obama administration is forcing Christian-owned businesses like Hobby Lobby to provide "abortifacients" or pay millions of dollars in fees. Hobby Lobby is one of several religious-owned businesses currently suing the administration over its requirement that most employers include contraception coverage in their health insurance plans.

The Affordable Care Act requires most employers to cover birth control, including emergency contraception -- also known as the morning-after pill or Plan B -- in their health insurance plans. But employers are not required to cover RU-486, an abortion-inducing medication that is sometimes confused with emergency contraception.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/11/ted-cruz-birth-control_n_4084857.html



Ted Cruz will be on Dr. Phil and Dr. Drew next week for an intervention along with Miley Cyrus.

[jsr]

1. Teabaggers: Please add to spellcheck

[joeybee12]

2. Abortifacients is a big word for such a tiny mind...nt

[srican69]

10. he went to Harvard ... but

so did Bush ..

sorry -- nevermind

[DURHAM D]

3. Hey... LEAVE MILEY ALONE!

[Ohio Joe]

4. Fear and Lies

They are the tools of the teabaggers.

[HappyMe]

5. Really?

Dumping Miley in with Ted Cruz? Aren't you clever.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. I think the Dr Phil is worse

Miley is only gonna twerk them all.

[HappyMe]

8. Of course Dr Phil is worse.

I just don't see why you keep beating that Miley twerking dead horse.

[Capt. Obvious]

7. GO BACK TO CANADA!!!

[Mariana]

9. They are trying to confuse people deliberately

and it's working. The anti-choice crowd have been spreading this particular lie for years. As a result, a huge number of people honestly believe that Plan B is RU-486, or something similar that works the same way.

I don't know if Cruz actually believes this, or if he's just pandering to his constituents who do.

[XemaSab]

11. For the people who think the Quiverfullers aren't dangerous

THIS IS ONE OF THEIR TALKING POINTS.

Birth control = abortion.