President Obama, who helped spark a national debate over divisive women’s health issues by insisting that religiously affiliated institutions pay for birth control under their health care plans, is now ramping up his courtship of the female voters who helped catapult him to victory four years ago.
The Obama campaign rolled out “Nurses for Obama” on Wednesday to play up the more populist aspects of his health care overhaul on the second anniversary of its signing and to rally women to his re-election effort.
Obama aides argued that Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney’s call earlier this week to end funding for Planned Parenthood was evidence that Romney was “running to the right” to win the Republican nomination, but insisted that the strategy would backfire in the fall campaigns by alienating independent and moderate voters.
