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That this is -- the ruling is okay. we can do this because there is an alternative means for contraceptive coverage. i'm picking up hesitation. i wonder if you consider that a back doorway of taxpayers funding contraception? >> you know, there are a lot of way it is government can achieve its goals. the oy cam days ago one of them. title x is one of them. the government spends $300 million a year to provide contraception to women who need it. i don't know which option they will choose. the green family asked that they be left out of it and not are have to take part in providing drugs that coul...

Is trying to figure out as many ways as possible to limit women's access to reproductive health care. title x, there have been incredible fights to defund title x, cut off federal funding for family planning. we have restrictions on which types of abortion in which circumstances can be funded by the government. there are states on the federal exchange where people cannot use their own money to purchase insurance to cover abortion. this is from all angles an attempt to limit access to affordable reproductive health care. there is a reason conservativeses won't agree to this type of solution. th...

Said the government can give people birth control. guess what? the republican party is trying to get rid of title x which provides contraception. it's an all-out assaults on contraceptives. pete williams continues to standby at the high court. we like to give him three or four minutes to thumb through that. how long is the decision, pete? >> let me look. it's 49 pages. here is a key part of it, i think. it says in this sort of expands on something i was talking about here. let me just read a little out of it. our decision in these cases concerns solely with the contraceptive mandate. it shou...

While officially members of congress have been telling us for months that the number one priority is jobs and the economy, the first days of the 2013 congress, two representatives from tennessee seem most focused on planned parenthood. the republican women each reintroduced separate bills to prohibit title x family planning grants to any organization performing boergss. title x family planning is only one for family planning and related health services and it was enacted under nixon. title x programs work with more than 5 million people through 4,500 clinics in the u.s. and especially importan...

Priority for house republicans and particularly the leadership. it wouldn't surprise me if the bill went far and past the house. >> laura, i think about 40 years since roe v. wade was passed. seems difficult to imagine america without it. i mean, is this just part of fabric of america? this is the way that we are now. >> you're right. i think it's really surprising that we're still battling this after so many decades but particularly what's surprising me more is battles over birth control and title x funding. the law was signed in to law by president nixon and a national priority of the time. ...