“Reality check, guys,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow announced moments ago on her show, ridiculing the “beltway pundit class” and “60-something male pundits” for thinking Obama’s decision to mandate contraception coverage would hurt his reelection.
“Hey, women of America,” she said, “Under a Democratic president your birth control pills will be covered by health insurance, and if you don’t have health insurance you can go to a clinic and get subsidized birth control there.”
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Maddow parroted a pro-choice argument suggesting that since Republican presidential candidates believe that life begins at conception, they obviously want to ban birth control pills for women.
“If a Republican is elected,” she added, “Your insurance may very well not cover birth control and if your insurance doesn’t cover it, or if you don’t have insurance at all there are no clinics to go to anymore to get birth control pills.”
Maddow insisted that under a Republican president, Planned Parenthood would be defunded and Title X funds would be gone, forcing women to pay $600 – $1200 a year on birth control.
“And that’s if you’re lucky,” she continued, “Because if you’re not, you’ll be living in one of the states where birth control has just been declared illegal.”
“So do you want a Democratic president or Republican president, women of America?” she concluded.
(Fellow MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews criticized the HHS decision hours before Maddow’s show)
