Is this how Republicans can push back the ‘war on women’ narrative?

Published September 26, 2014 4:06pm ET



The Democrats’ “war on women” narrative isn’t working its old magic in Colorado, and part of that reason is Republican Rep. Cory Gardner’s support for over-the-counter birth control.

Gardner’s opponent, incumbent Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., has been hammering the Republican with the charge that he is anti-woman from the get-go. Udall has continuously hammered on Gardner’s earlier support for an amendment to the state constitution that would have defined personhood as beginning at conception. Opponents of the measure said this would restrict certain kinds of birth control and would ban abortion.

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