The Obama campaign issued a statement almost immeidately following Mitt Romney’s backing of the Blunt Amendment to allow any employer to deny an employee health coverage of anything they found morally objectionable. The bill is a response to the administration’s contraception coverage rule. Here is the statement from Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter:
“In one hour, Mitt Romney showed why women don’t trust him for one minute. It took little more than an hour for him to commit his latest flip-flop. Even worse, he ended up on the wrong side of an issue of critical importance to women.”
“The Blunt Amendment would allow any employer to deny their female employees coverage because of that employer’s own beliefs. With his support of this amendment, Mitt Romney is taking important health care decisions about contraception, mammograms, and cervical cancer screenings among other issues out of women’s hands and into the hands of their bosses.”
“While Mitt Romney may be in a race to the bottom with Rick Santorum to see who can pander most to the far right-wing, his embrace of extreme policies like the Blunt Amendment would have real life consequences for millions of women.”
