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Related: About this forumEXCLUSIVE: Mourdock Argues Insurance Companies Shouldn’t Cover Birth Control At All
EXCLUSIVE: Mourdock Argues Insurance Companies Shouldnt Cover Birth Control At All
WASHINGTON, D.C. Indiana Senate nominee Richard Mourdock (R) doesnt just want to prevent women who have been raped from obtaining an abortion; he also doesnt think they should be able to access affordable birth control through their health insurance that could prevent such a pregnancy.
Months before Mourdock commented last night that pregnancies resulting from rape are a gift that God intended, ThinkProgress spoke with him at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference about Rick Santorums belief that insurance plans shouldnt cover birth control at all. When asked whether he agreed with Santorum on the matter, Mourdock replied: I do, I do.
KEYES: I know Rick Santorum in his speech was talking a lot about this. He even went so far as to say, I dont think insurance plans should be covering birth control in the first place. Do you think hes right about that?
MOURDOCK: I do, I do. I dont think thats the role of government. We have to start rolling back government. There are many issues out there beyond Obamacare, but really the issue overlying everything is, is this nation going to survive? And that ultimately becomes an issue of economics.
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Full article and video here: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/10/24/1078781/richard-mourdock-contraception/
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EXCLUSIVE: Mourdock Argues Insurance Companies Shouldn’t Cover Birth Control At All (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Oct 2012
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. How does he feel about covering Viagra etc??
I would think that is also gods' will
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)3. That's more god's will than being raped
There's a reason he made dude's lose the ability to get it up and that's so the world wouldn't get overpopulated and to give women a break from birthing babies.
asjr
(10,479 posts)2. There should be a law that requires people who
run for public office file and receive a Certificate of Sanity before they can do anything else.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)4. Plus an IQ test and a very hard political test
demo dutch
(5,550 posts)5. Who's going to love & take care of the rape baby?
Not the republicans, they'll cut every bit of funding!