A Theory about the Contraception Mandate

It's Charles Murray's fault. When Charles Murray pointed out evidence that the white lower classes that some people imagine to be the mainstay of the Republican party are acting more in accordance with what used to be called the new “morality” than the upper classes, I suspect that many Democrats reacted by saying “They should be voting for us!” This was followed by their standard strategy of treating the expected results of personal decisions (i.e., not bothering to use birth control) as Someone Else's Fault. The obvious next step will be to try to connect not paying for contraception to the nefarious designs of the “1 percent.”