As I write this, I am witnessing something I would not have thought possible. The central discussion of the Republican primaries is not jobs, or war, or foreign affairs, or even the economy. It is contraception. Can it be possible that in the second decade of the 21st century we are debating once again whether contraception should be legal and available to all women? We can and we are.

You can get the flavor from the words of Rick Santorum: ‘One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in country.