Ad hits McCain on birth control stand

That shot of McCain rolling his eyes when asked the question is utterly priceless.

His "I don't know enough about the issue" answer wasn't even a case of him being out of touch, rather it was him racking his brain to come up with a better lie, and not being able to think of one.

Birth control coverage is a non issue this year... The economy, Iraq, fuel prices... no one gives a crap about birth control. And McCain didn't dodge the question, he said he didn't know. Chances are if abortion rights and birth control are your main issues, you're already voting for Obama.

Who cares? I am a woman and a McCain supporter...screw Obama!

So often women hide behind the guise of "women's health" when indeed for most instances it is nothing but murdering an innocent baby.

Unfortunately, Obama too has recently "gone wobbly" on women's right to choose. That said, he is the lesser of two evils for Clinton supporters like myself.

Planned parenthood's birth control method is mainly abortion

A pill which stops your body from naturally ovulating is part of women's health care? Wow, I think Planned Parenthood is the group which is confused about the difference between personal choice (taking birth control) and the human body's natural processes.
Let me check...is my daily coffee covered by my health insurance??? I mean, it is a vital part of how I get my body functioning on a high level each day.....

I guess from a courting evangelicals point of view Viagra is a making babies pill as opposed to a stop making babies pill so it's a good thing.

Wait, birth control?

Who gives a damn. Also, what the hell does McCain have to do with health care?

I can see the next left viral video.

"McCain, my deadbeat roommate won't cough up his share of the rent. What do you plan on doing about it?"

> McCain: Rolls eyes.

"OMG don't you care about my problems?"

If there are any Sen. Clinton supporters still toying with the idea of backing McCain, this straight-forward message should stop them in their tracks. Then if they look up his abysmal non-support of women's healthcare inititatives over the last 20 years, and the fact that he hopes to dismantle R v. W with wing-nut Supreme Court nominees -- it is clear that supporting Obama is the only way to honor the candidacy of Sen Clinton.

This has nothing to do with a Pro-Life/Pro-Choice issue - it is about private insurance companies choosing what they will or will not cover. If people looking for insurance to cover birth control subscribe only to those insurers who will provide that coverage, all companies will soon follow suit.

This ad assumes that everyone who is Pro-Choice is also Marxist. Frankly, I find that an arrogant and insulting assumption.

I do not want the governement telling private insurance companies what they must and cannot cover. Ads like this are why everyone who isn't Pro-Life get lumped together with Socialists and Big-Government advocates.

If this is all Planned Parenthood has on McCain, well, the pool is pretty shallow.

I echo comment #2.

PP is just burning money on this zero-impact ad.

The difference is simple. Erectile dysfunction is just that... a dysfunction--a medical condition. Trying to not get pregnant is NOT A MEDICAL CONDITION. Insurance doesn't pay for condoms... so there's no reason why it should pay for birth control either. It's really that simple.

I wouldn't choose a President based on his stance on abortion. That's really a non-issue for most women. It doesn't appear to be something that McCain is interested in either. Most likely, it's just going to be status quo. Obama can't hurt McCain on this issue.

Why should the president of the United States have to worry about whether someone is taking birth control or not... or Viagra too? Why should your birth control or your viagra be paid for by someone else? If you think the president of the United States should have to worry about somebody's birth control pills then you will get the kind of government that you deserve, an Obama government, and that I definately do not want!

Sen. McCain should ask "Planned Parenthood": Why do you call your services "family planning" while you make vast amounts of money from vast numers of killings of family members - ending all potential for their plans?

What about Obama, who while in Chicago voted AGAINST a bill that would permit medical care to be given to a baby still born alive after an abortion gone wrong. Is this a decent human being that I want to call president...NO...not someone who would let a baby just die. He also wants to be commander in chief but has declined to attend a townhall meeting at Fort Hood for Veterans and their families. I have read where this was going to be broadcasts on TV but so far only McCain has accepted. I am tired of Obama opting out of all these townhall meetings. He seems to not want to answers questions the American people have for him. Now he won't even find the time to face the troops at Fort Hood...THIS IS DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, Obama playing politics with reproductive health care, as he has done his entire career in politics, gives little comfort either. Neither of them really gets that decisions about birth control and abortion should be made privately by women. I hope pro-choice folks realize that which ever one of these jokers is elected that we are going to have to scream in their faces 24 hours a day or else they will sell legal abortion and birth control down the river without losing a minute of sleep. The only thing they care about is winning the election---and then getting re-elected. If that means throwing women overboard, so be it.

I don't get it. I'm on very possibly the worst HMO and my birth control is covered. The insurance would pay a heck of a lot more if I got pregnant every year. Why not pay for the pills? It's either that or stop people from having sex which is a far less likely possibility.

Uhm, Dawn (#2), if you are going to "screw obama" you should think about some birth control for yourself there, Missy.

" Who cares [about birth control]? I am a woman and a McCain supporter...screw Obama!
Posted by Dawn July 16, 08 03:34 PM"

Dawn that is a most strange response.

Most Republicans would feel that there are already enough Obamas.

post# 13... "The difference is simple. Erectile dysfunction is just that... a dysfunction--a medical condition. Trying to not get pregnant is NOT A MEDICAL CONDITION. Insurance doesn't pay for condoms... so there's no reason why it should pay for birth control either. It's really that simple."

I see there's a lot of uninformed posters on here. Birth Control is also used for treating endometriosis, ovarian cysts and acne. These are all medical conditions, some of them quite painful and/or a precursor to cancer. So rinosaurusrex.com it's not so simple.

YouTube and Comedy Central hit the jackpot the other day when a reporter asked John McCain if he thinks health plans that cover Viagra should cover birth control for women. Like a base runner caught between third and home, the Republican Presidential hopeful grimaced, utterly frozen. Folks, don't kid yourselves! It wasn't Alzheimer's. McCain was caught in a true political pickle. If he fessed up to all his Senate votes against access to contraception, he risked offending the vast majority of voters, sensible women and men who understand basic fairness and the importance of preventing unintended pregnancy. If he ran the other way, disavowing his own voting record, McCain risked offending the hard core social conservatives, still loyal to George W. Bush, whose votes he needs come Election Day. Better to play victim to another round of tasteless dementia jokes than answer a simple but telling question with TV cameras rolling.