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For years in my column, I would run this thing at the end called straight rights watch.

And I was just really tracking these rumblings on the far right, the religious right,

of the coming war on contraception that for most people, and some of my readers would write back, just wondering why I was wasting all my time doing this. Most people regarded the debate over contraception is essentially over. It was even accepted in mainstream Republican circles. Remember mainstream Republican circles? They don't really exist anymore. But they were a thing once upon a time. That birth control was good. And if you wanted to bring down the abortion rate, which is, of course, right-wingers, or were saying they want to do, providing people with birth control and access to birth control and easing access to birth control is a really effective way to bring down the abortion rate and the teen pregnancy rate. Go fucking figure, right?

And I would point out that they're coming for birth control, that they're coming, here

they come, they're reframing the debate over birth control as a debate over abortion, that

birth control pills are abortion, that they hurt women, just like they claim that access to

abortion hurts women, and they're coming for birth control.

And I was really vindicated in the 2011, 2012 Republican primaries when Rick Santorum burst to the front of the pack at the end of the primary season as the sort of religious right social conservative hero. and he was saying that he would, if elected president, fight access to birth control because birth control, according to Rick Symptoram, and I'm quoting, gives people the right to do that which they should not do, which is to have recreational sex, which is, of course, most of the sex. Most people have most of the

time. Over the course of a person's life, that person will have sex many, many, many, many

many times and only have a handful of children. Anyway, there was Rick Santorum coming out

against birth control. And it may seem a little weird and irrelevant to bring Rick Santorum up.

Now we live in Obama 2.0 America.

It is morning still.

Here we are.

The second inauguration just happened.

And they've all been, you know, thrown off and cast aside the social concern is.

No, not really.

Rick Santorum is running around the country, talking, talking, talking. He's on the Sunday

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