Barbara Boxer To GOP: Quit Saying Ted Kennedy Would Support Your Birth Control Bill [View all]

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Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) emphatically called on Republicans Wednesday to stop invoking the late Ted Kennedy to justify their support for the Blunt contraception amendment. She said he was a great champion of women's health.

"So I ask my colleagues here in this debate. Come here and state your views," Boxer said on the Senate floor. "But don't misstake the views of a dear departed colleague, who for 12 years supported a women's right to have access to contraception."


Boxer: Contraception amendment a 'radical departure'
http://thehill.com/video/senate/213417-boxer-contraception-amendment-a-radical-departure
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) blasted the proposed amendment from Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that would exempt employers and insurers from covering healthcare procedures they object to on moral or religious grounds a "radical departure from what we've always done in this country" during an interview Wednesday. Boxer went on to say Republicans "can't help themselves" from engaging in battles over social issues, and criticized the GOP for attempting to attach the amendment to a highway transportation bill.