Obama Plugs Birth Control and Planned Parenthood in Pitch to High School Students

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CNSnews:

(CNSNews.com) – Listing the reasons why Americans should vote for him, President Barack Obama told a high school audience on Monday that failure to subsidize abortions and contraception is the same as “restricting access” to those services.

“In this election, on every single challenge that we face, you’ve got the final say,” Obama told students at Oyster River High School in Durham.

“You can decide that instead of restricting access to birth control or defunding Planned Parenthood, we should make sure that in this country, women control their own health care choices. That’s up to you,” the president said to applause.

 

Obama did not explicitly say that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney or any other Republican has proposed to “restrict access” to birth control.

However, Romney and congressional Republicans have opposed an Obama administration mandate that requires insurance companies to provide free abortifacients, sterilization and contraception, which Catholics and other religious denominations find morally objectionable.