Many people speaking for the right-wing are raising hell about the Obama administration's rule on contraceptives. They are presenting it as a violation of the "freedom of choice" of those institutions, predominantly Catholic and Mormon, that will have to provide contraception for their employees. They should not be allowed to set this framing. The fact is that the new rules do not force anyone to use contraceptives; they instead increase the freedom of choice of the employees. What the rule does do is take the opportunity to make the choice about contraceptives away from administrators and give it to individuals. This is, of course, what right-wing rhetoric tends to glorify, but often violates in practice.
The left has too often allowed the right to frame controversial issues in such a way that they win over the less-well informed "independent" voters. We should be on guard against this.