ahh the foolishness, where fore art the foolishness.  It is not the democrats, but there is obstinacy, pertinacious obstinance to behold a principle to which none adhere.  Catholics do not abstain from contraception.  No, it is the bishops, and right wing politicians who lie with contraception.  That is the result of mingling absolutism of a religious belief with what science and medicine determine to otherwise be true.