“Contraception” on The Daily Caller

It has been an exercise in futility to find a news outlet not covering the supposed “war on women” in at least some detail. Where did this phrase come from, and why has it suddenly re-entered our political lexicon? (more)

While the Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of Obamacare and the nation reels from the Obama administration’s order that Catholic hospitals must provide contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees, the ACLU of Arizona is attacking a proposal to restore employers’ freedom of conscience. (more)

Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke said on Tuesday that candidates running for office should have to pass a pro-woman litmus test in order to get elected. (more)

For weeks, President Obama, Democratic activists and their friends in the media have relentlessly pushed the idea that Republicans have launched a “war on women.” (more)

The Obama administration moved forward Friday afternoon in implementing the controversial contraception rule, saying that student health insurance plans must cover preventive services. (more)

White House spokesman Jay Carney on Thursday dismissed calls for a reconsideration of President Barack Obama’s controversial regulation of the health care policies offered by religious organizations, one day after Catholic leaders repeated their offer to hash out an agreement. (more)

A female Ohio lawmaker has introduced legislation that would introduce new hurdles for men who want Viagra: proof that they have sought sex therapy, and a sexual partner’s notarized statement verifying their impotency. (more)

Conservative Catholic groups are warning Democrats that there may be political ramifications for backing the White House’s controversial contraception mandate. (more)

Supporters of President Obama’s contraception mandate for health care coverage argue that modernity demands birth control, but beginning in late April some women will be participating in a passive resistance strategy to get it — one that dates back to ancient Greece. (more)

On his Friday program, Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly found yet another connection between Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke and the Democratic Party. Fluke, a so-called contraceptive advocate, rose to prominence after conservative talker Rush Limbaugh called her a ‘slut’ and a ‘prostitute’ on his radio show. (more)

Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke is being represented by a former Obama adviser’s PR firm, Bill O’Reilly explained on his Thursday night program “The O’Reilly Factor,” suggesting that the young woman was indirectly planted at the center of the contraception controversy by the Obama administration. (more)

3/8/12 12:00 PM: This article has been updated to include a response from Target showing that the $9 per month rate for Ortho Tri-Cyclen is available only to discount prescription cardholders. (more)

Sandra Fluke has more choices with regard to her sex life and reproduction than any woman in history. (more)

On his Thursday radio show, conservative host Mark Levin, author of “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America,” had a new term for the President Barack Obama: “The condom president.” (more)

Vice President Joe Biden seemed to go off message Thursday by announcing the White House’s controversial effort to regulate religious communities “got screwed up in the first iteration.” (more)

Once again, President Obama has exceeded the limits of his executive authority and the American people are witnessing a federal takeover of private enterprise. The latest private sector casualty is none other than religious bodies, which are simply asking the president to accord them the respect they’re entitled to under the Constitution. Instead, through the rubric of the health care mandate requiring religious employers to provide their employees with insurance coverage for contraception, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization, even if doing so violates their religious beliefs, the administration and its allies on the left have unilaterally decreed that matters of conscience are to be relegated solely to the confines of houses of worship. (more)

New York Republican Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle said Monday that the Obama administration’s new rule mandating that religious employers provide health insurance plans covering contraceptives is “the largest single intrusion of the federal government on our constitutional rights.” (more)

At least seven religious plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against the Obama administration over the president’s contraception mandate for health care coverage. That requirement forces most health insurance plans to offer free preventative services for women. (more)

Does former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney believe ABC’s George Stephanopoulos coordinated with the White House over Stephanopoulos’ contraception question during Jan. 7’s New Hampshire primary debate? (more)

NASCAR driver Danica Patrick isn’t particularly concerned about the Obama administration’s dictate that religious employers provide health care plans that cover contraceptives. (more)