Before now, GOP backed contraceptive mandates

[uppityperson]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2017527777_contraceptives17.html

Since President Obama moved to require Catholic hospitals and universities to offer contraceptive health benefits to employees, Republicans have rushed to accuse the administration of an unprecedented attack on religious freedoms.
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No one has been more forceful than former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who has accused Obama of "a direct violation of the First Amendment." Yet Republican lawmakers and governors, including Huckabee, backed similar mandates years before the current partisan firestorm.

Twenty-two states, including Washington, have laws or regulations that resemble, at least in part, the Obama administration's original rule. More than one-third had GOP support, a review of state records shows.

In six states, including Arkansas, those contraceptive mandates were signed by GOP governors, including Huckabee...(more at link)

So why are they fighting this? Memory loss? Hypocrisy? Is it "simply" because Dems want it or because of that foreign born muslin leader we got?

[SmileyRose]

1. oh I think it's just

Easier to pick us clean if we are all busy running around the house closing the windows because someone in the neighborhood decided the hottest day of the year is a good time to put horseshit on the flower beds.

[nanabugg]

2. That was when they thought that would stop the "others" from breeding. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

3. And before Reagan, the GOP supported abortion rights.

Jerry and Betty Ford were the last WH couple to support a woman's right to abortion.

[JHB]

4. A combination of short-term "today's tactic" and...

...long-term goal of the sex-fanatic wing they set up to divide the New Deal coalition over social issues.

[madokie]

5. Because they can't be having a successful black president is my guess

hypocritical bigoted sobs=Pukes

[tanyev]

6. Because they are desperately flailing to find anything that will give them traction in November.

And all they can come up with is "if Obama is for it, we are against it".