House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s statement, “Really, we should be afraid of this court … the five guys who start determining what contraceptives are legal,” was ruled “false” by PolitiFacts. (Win McNamee/Getty Images North America)
Regular readers of this blog and my op-eds will recall that I have often written about the bogus war on women Democrats claim Republican are waging.
A host of liberal women took to the microphones to assault the Supreme Court Justices who decided in favor of Hobby Lobby in its recent ruling. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, was so incensed she called a press conference, only to have it backfire.
If you didn’t see Megyn Kelly’s powerful response to Pelosi on the July 10, 2014 Kelly File, I invite you to click here. Again, Pelosi is caught commenting on something without any knowledge of the facts and with no compunction to lie.
“She misspoke,” Pelosi’s spokesman Drew Hammill acknowledged to PolitiFacts, “Obviously the impact of the court’s decision is not to make these four contraceptive methods illegal –i.e. no longer allowed to be sold,” he confessed.
PolitiFacts called Pelosi’s sweeping claim “false.” Isn’t it convenient how someone can go before the press and make a blatant untruthful statement only to have someone else say, ‘Oops, she misspoke.’ And, of course, the correction is rarely covered by the press.
But Pelosi wasn’t the only liberal to “misspeak.” Hillary Clinton, appearing at the Aspen Ideas Festival on June 30, 2014, didn’t hesitate to jump into the fray as she said the Court’s decision was “deeply disturbing.”
“It’s very troubling that a salesclerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception, which is pretty expensive, is not going to get that service through her employer’s health care plan because her employer doesn’t think she should be using contraception,” Clinton went on to comment.
PolitiFacts ruled Clinton’s statement to be “mostly false,” since Hobby Lobby would pay for 16 of the 20 FDA approved contraceptives for that salesclerk. Even the Washington Post gave Clinton’s statement two out of four Pinocchios.
Not to be left out, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) called the decision “stifling … for American women.” She followed with a most unusual statement, “Republicans want to do everything they can to have the long hand of government, and now the long hand of business, reach into a woman’s body and make health decisions for her.” Not true. Most Republicans are anti-big government, which was ultimately responsible for making ObamaCare’s contraceptive provisions unacceptable to religious-based entities. Conservatives prefer to return to the days when women’s health issues were between them and their doctor.
