On Contraception, the Administration Got it Right

Congresswoman Nita Lowey responds to critics who say the administration was wrong to protect access to contraception for millions of women under the Affordable Care Act.

"Contraceptives do not solve every problem. But women...want access to voluntary family planning for the same reasons as women elsewhere: to avoid high-risk pregnancies, to deliver healthy children and to better care for the children they have. And this is a pro-life cause."

 

That's what Michael Gerson wrote in the Washington Post in August 2011.

But now he criticizes the Obama Administration for protecting access to contraception for millions of American women.

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