contraception coverage in the president s health care bill. trace gallagher is live in our west coast newsroom with more. reporter: this is ave maria university in nape les naples, florida. look, the school is clearly morally opposed to the health care mandate because of the contraceptive coverage, but now the president says it doesn t make economic sense for them to do this because the school is now required to offer comprehensive coverage you know, that s the one size fits all insurance where young people who rarely use the system have to buy the same coverage as older people who frequently use the system. now, the school s insurance provider says students would be looking at a premium increase next year of between 65 and 82%. now, if they didn t drop mechanical together, they d then have to explain to students why in the world their health care premiums are going up so much. foxnews.com has also polled some other catholic universities, and
march after the sandra fluke controversy came to the forefront and women s issues became the mantra of the democratic party, specifically president obama making up dozens of points about things like contraception coverage. the president felt it would be important for him to speak at this women s college. that s been historically recognized for years. let s listen in as president obama is about to give the commencement speech in new york city we presume to talk about women s rights and women s issues. a highly anticipated speech right about now. signing the liltly leadbetter act into law. you have removed barriers to women in the military, improved access to health services and repeatedly supported our right to choose. [ applause ] and time and again, you have put your trust in the a long list of
women act if you don t protect all women. there s a new tv ad hammering mitt romney on women s positions he took during the primaries. congresswoman rogers, you can respond. congratulations, mitt romney. you re the presumed nominee, and all you had to do was threaten to take away our contraception coverage. threaten to charge us more just because we re women. and threaten to do away with planned parenthood, a form of life care for millions of women. we re going to remember how you threw women under the bus. what did you make of mitt romney s performance, congresswoman rogers, when he had to go get people further right like rick santorum? do you think he fought them or joined them? the democrats are creating a controversy that doesn t exist.
reporter: but you saw what happened on the campaign trail, with two weeks of contraception coverage. sure. reporter: do you think a romney campaign could handle a week of transvaginal ultrasound coverage? what i think america can t handle is a war by the democrats on a taxpayer. i don t think they can handle the democrats continuing to change the subject away from the economy and jobs and debt and deficit because the record is so bad. bret, that s what this is really all about. when have you 8.2% unemployment and no president has gotten elected with over 8% and have you debt, with a failed leader of the president to cut the spending of this administration, of course, you are going to change the subject and create this create this buzz about women s rights. i have 22 years now governing people. i know exactly what we stand for. i am pro-life, i am pro-family,
eyebrows. they point to this measure that you signed, this fetal ultrasound bill in march requiring women seeking abortions to undergo an ultrasound before an abortion procedure. it created a lot of press. do you regret that? what was the thought process behind it. we have made a lot of progress in defending human life. we have had arguments for 40 years. listen, we had virginia join 22 other states that required ultrasound procedure as part of the informed consent process. you saw what happened on the campaign trail when we had two weeks of contraception coverage. do you think a romney campaign could handle a week of trance vaginal ultrasound coverage? what america can t handle is a war by the democrats on the taxpayers. i don t think they can handle