The Affordable Care Act provides a huge opportunity to make sure US women have access to contraception. Contraception should be on the list of preventive medicines and services that don’t require a co-pay—that makes health and fiscal sense.
The attacks on Planned Parenthood are still technically being justified with glib references to abortion, but the reality---that this is an attack on contraception---is so obvious many anti-choicers are failing to hide it well.
During a year of awful loss and trying times, it would be easy—even understandable—to dwell on the bad times right now. But instead, I want to tell my wife I love her.