Lisa Murkowski Regrets GOP-Aligned Birth Control Vote

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski is sorry she voted with Republicans on birth control.

Murkowski voted in favor of an amendment by Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., to overturn President Barack Obama’s order that health insurance cover the cost of contraceptives even if providers object on religious grounds. She was backpedaling within days.

One woman in the Iditarod crowd yelled at the senator. Another was more civil, but made the same point: Murkowski ticked off a lot of women with that vote.

“With her vote, Murkowski showed her true colors and put her party’s anti-female agenda ahead of the Alaska women she is supposed to represent,” Fairbanks resident Michelle Cason wrote to the editor of the city’s Daily News-Miner.

Before the weekend was out, Murkowski told the Anchorage Daily News that she regretted her vote.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.