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Interesting artical .....
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/02/17/conservatives_bloggers_debate_whether_or_not_to_hold_their_own_to_their_own_prudish_standards_.html
Watching an artifice that was painstakingly constructed over a period of decades crumble in a week is really a rare treat in politics, so it's really important to take time to enjoy this week, which will be known as the week when social conservative claims to be interested in "fetuses" or "religious liberty" or anything but indulging an obsessive desire to control sex collapsed in a heap.
It's almost as if the artifice were constructed out of pick-up sticks, and Obama pulled out the stick holding up the entire structure with his neat little compromise that allows women to get contraception coverage even if they work for a religiously-affiliated institution that refuses to cover it.
This week had Rep. Darrell Issa's male-centric hearing on contraception rights gaffe, Foster Friesse dusting off that ancient joke about how women should just hold the pill between their legs if they don't want to get pregnant, and the Virginia state legislature passing a mandatory ultrasound law with comments basically admitting that it's an excuse to punish women who want abortions with a little forcible vaginal penetration.
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