More on John McCain's opposition to birth control

Seems the media is, again, doing it's best to ignore stories that hurt McCain. Where is Mrs. Greenspan? Fresh out of outrage, are we?

John McCain is so opposed to contraception he voted against requiring insurance plans to cover [birth control] like [Viagra], and either so indifferent to women's health and rights or just so out of it he doesn't even remember how he voted. That's the way to show American women you really care....

The story heated up on the blogosphere, but a Nexis search at the beginning of this week found only 61 mentions in print and on TV, and most of those were passing references in stories about McCain's bad week—Phil Gramm calling Americans "a nation of whiners" obsessed with a "mental recession" got most of the attention—or focused on the effect Fiorina's off-message remark will have on her vice-presidential prospects.

Where is the discussion of the real issue, which is that for over 20 years John McCain has voted against contraception every time it came up and—now he tells us!—he doesn't even care or know enough to explain why?

Women—and men—need to know where he stands on this issue so basic to health and human flourishing if they are going to make informed decisions in the polling booth. But so far the media has refused to present McCain's anti-contraception record as a big, coherent story that tells us a great deal about who he is and what policies he would pursue in the White House.

Maybe The New Yorker could do a cover about it. Then the media might find it interesting enough to discuss.