Warren: Government Shutdown Was Attempt to Deny Women Access to Birth Control

Warren: Government Shutdown Was Attempt to Deny Women Access to Birth Control (National Review Online)

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) says that the government shutdown this past fall was all part of the GOP’s war on women.

“Remember last year’s government shutdown that nearly tanked our economy?” she said on the Senate Floor Tuesday. “That fight started with a GOP effort to hold the whole operation of the federal government hostage in order to try to force Democrats and the president to let employers deny workers access to birth control.”

In reality, the government shutdown occurred when Congress failed to agree upon a budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year. House Republicans insisted that the new spending bill defund or at least chip away at Obamacare.