Contraceptive corporate welfare

Published March 5, 2012 5:00am ET



Last Thursday, Democrats voted down Roy Blunt’s conscience-protection measure, dishonestly calling it an attempt to ban contraception. That evening, President Obama, who had just finalized a mandate requiring all employer-based health-care plans to cover 100 percent of the cost of contraception, travelled up to New York City to collect $35,800 checks at a fundraiser hosted by the top lobbyist at the nation’s largest drug company—Sally Susman, VP for government affairs at Pfizer.

Author and cronyism critic Peter Schweizer explains why this is relevant:

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