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5:57 PM PT: This debate is like traveling back to the 13th century.
5:59 PM PT: Regarding Mitt Romney, the morning after pill, and Catholic hospitals, here's a flashback:
ov. Mitt Romney abandoned plans Thursday to exempt Roman Catholic and other private hospitals from a new law requiring them to dispense emergency contraception to rape victims.
Romney had initially backed regulations proposed earlier this week by his public health commissioner, Paul Cote, who said the new law conflicted with an older law barring the state from forcing private hospitals to dispense contraceptive devices or information.
The Republican governor, who is considering a run for president in 2008, said at a news conference Thursday morning that he asked his legal advisers to review the matter after members of both parties criticized the regulations. He said the lawyers determined that the new law superseded the old law and that all hospitals should be required to offer the so-called "morning-after pill."
"On that basis I have instructed the Department of Public Health to follow the conclusion of my own legal counsel and to adopt that sounder view," Romney said.
"I think it's, in my personal view, it's the right thing for hospitals to provide information and access to emergency contraception to anyone who is a victim of rape," he added.
6:00 PM PT: Something strange is happening in this debate. Rick Santorum is getting pummeled for being TOO FUCKING LEFT WING ON BIRTH CONTROL.
6:00 PM PT: These assclowns are an embarrassment to America.
6:02 PM PT: Do Republicans buy this stuff? Mitt Romney just blamed Rick Santorum for the passage of Obamacare...because he didn't back Pat Toomey in the GOP primary.
6:04 PM PT: Santorum, I think, is finally having a good moment in the debate.
6:07 PM PT:
RT @davidaxelrod: Honest question: Did Mitt support Toomey over Spector?
— @markos via TweetDeck
6:08 PM PT:
You know it's funny, in that whole exchange about birth control I don't think anyone said the word 'women' once. #CNNDebate
— @JessicaValenti via web
6:10 PM PT (Barbara Morrill): New thread is up here.