"Summary
Planned Parenthood is running a TV ad showing John McCain painfully groping for an answer to a reporter’s question:
"It’s unfair that health insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control. Do you have an opinion on that?"
McCain had good reason to be flustered.
The premise of the reporter’s question is a myth.
The full range of contraceptives, in fact, are covered by more than 86 percent of private insurance plans written for employers.
Analysis
Early in July, a reporter on the McCain campaign bus said that "health insurance companies cover Viagra but not birth control" and asked for McCain’s opinion on that. McCain responded with an extremely long pause, finally saying, “I don’t know enough about it to give you a [sic] informed answer.”
Planned Parenthood has seized on that flop-sweat moment in a new ad portraying McCain as uninformed on reproductive rights.
The ad is running in Washington, D.C., and in battleground states including Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio and Wisconsin."
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