House Passes Contraceptives Bill the Senate Will Likely Kill

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : In what was advertised as a natural follow-on to the House passage on July 19 of a bill codifying same-sex-marriage rights in view of endangered constitutional protections, the House has now enacted guarantees for access to contraceptive services.
47% : But as this vote shows, Republicans remain dangerously enamored with a concept of "religious liberty" that essentially means insulating conservative Christians from basic notions of equality that are binding on their fellow citizens.
46% : But unlike the marriage-equality bill, which attracted 47 Republican votes, spurring fresh hope that it could overcome a Senate filibuster, the contraception bill drew only eight Republican votes along with howls of protest that House Democrats were trying to abridge religious liberty by forcing health care and pharmaceutical providers to comply.
40% : Politically, of course, contraception is less controversial than abortion or, for that matter, same-sex marriage (though those rights also command majority support).

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