Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) has repeatedly claimed that former Sen. Scott Brown, her Republican opponent in the race for U.S. Senate there, pushed legislation letting employers deny women coverage for birth control and mammograms. PolitiFact took a look at the birth control coverage claim deemed it “true” while it deemed the mammogram claim “mostly false.”
The attack by Shaheen, which follows a pattern of Democrats attacking Republicans on contraception and women’s issues, centers around an amendment proposed by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) that said employers couldn’t be made to cover “specific items or services” that conflict with the “religious beliefs or moral convictions of the sponsor, issuer, or other entity offering the plan,” according to PolitiFact.
Brown has responded to these attacks by saying that he has always supported women having the ability to get contraception easily. He recently said he has supported that “since I was 18 years old.”
PolitiFact found that Brown, in fact, did support that amendment and thus Shaheen’s claim that Brown supported a proposal that would have prevented women from getting access to birth control as true. It did not, however, find evidence that people have expressed religious objections to mammograms and dubbed that claim “mostly false.”
“Shaheen said Brown “co-sponsored legislation to let employers deny women coverage for birth control,” PolitiFact said. “The amendment, which Brown supported, was written loosely enough to allow a religious-conscience opt-out for birth control — an issue about which there has been a longstanding policy debate on religious and moral grounds. We rate the claim True.”
The TPM Polltracker average finds Shaheen with a 5.9 point lead over Brown.
Go back to posing for Cosmo, Himbo.
I am just so shocked that a Republican would deny, backtrack, and distort their actions or statements to get elected. . Pretty boy wasn’t in office 6 years but I think many Senators assume that they have a lot of time to muddy their actions. I hope the truth bites them in the ass
That’s the thing. They know that their views aren’t going to be popular among the “rabble” and that they need to lie to the “peons” in order to get elected since only the “elite” “aristocrats” understand their views.
Truth should never be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. If you have to lie in order to defend your beliefs, then maybe your beliefs are the problem. Unfortunately, most GOP-ers spend more time whining and making excuses for why people don’t like their views than they do actually thinking about and reconsidering their ideas.
So, since it’s Politifact, does that mean it’s actually “mostly false?” It’s so hard to know with them. Maybe they opened this one up for internet voting.
thank you for explaining why your party is on the way to political oblivion.