Oh yes, let's make the governor's race all about birth control
Missouri Republicans are gearing up to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a bill that, as Nixon correctly noted, would enable health insurers to omit birth control coverage from insurance policies, even if employers and policy holders want it.
You can bet that every House Republican will be called upon to vote for that override in order to achieve the required two-thirds majority. It won’t be optional. The Senate appears already to have the votes.
But what will that prove? Only that the Missouri legislature is so extreme, so political, and so out of step with ordinary people that they will overthrow a governor’s veto that makes ultimate sense.
Lest anyone has slipped into a time warp, let us remember that this is the year 2012. Is the electorate really going to buy into the Republicans’ mission to make birth control an issue in the gubernatorial campaign? Outside of the capitol, I think we are well beyond that point.
Republican legislators and Nixon’s Republican opponent will waste a lot of oxygen huffing about the governor’s assault on religious freedom, which is nonsense. As Nixon noted in his veto message, state law already enables employers and consumers to opt out of insurer-provided birth control coverage if they have a genuine religious or moral objection.
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