Santorum: Contraception ‘Shouldn’t Be In An Insurance Plan Anyway,’ Liberals ‘Trying To Impose Their Values’

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Rick Santorum is continuing to oppose President Obama’s new compromise measure on health insurance coverage of contraception for employees of religious institutions.

“No,” Santorum replied, when asked whether he was satisfied, “not at all.”

The Huffington Post reports from CPAC:

“This has nothing to do with access,” he said. “This is having someone pay for it, pay for something that shouldn’t be in an insurance plan anyway because it is not, really an insurable item. This is something that is affordable, available. You don’t need insurance for these types of relatively small expenditures. This is simply someone trying to impose their values on somebody else, with the arm of the government doing so. That should offend everybody, people of faith and no faith that the government could get on a roll that is that aggressive.”

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