Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Romney Profits From Birth Control Makers

The Mittster, criticizing Obama on rule requiring employers (not churches) to offer healthcare insurance covering birth control, doesn't put his month where his mouth is. Also, beware when Mitt talks about how he has blind trusts and doesn't know what he's invested in:
Romney’s Goldman Sachs 2002 Exchange Place Fund, valued at over a million dollars in 2010, brought in nearly $600,000 in gains in 2010 and is invested in:
- Watson Pharmaceuticals: manufacturer of nine forms of emergency contraception (which Romney incorrectly identifies as “abortifacients“).
- Johnson & Johnson: launched the first U.S. prescription birth control product in 1931 and produces various forms of birth control.
- Merck: produces various forms of birth control
- Mylan: produces birth control medication and filed the first application for a generic birth control pill last year.
- Pfizer: a contraception producer that recently had to recall about a million packs of birth-control pills that weren’t packaged correctly. TP

What the White House had to say about Mitt's full of beans turnabout on contraceptives: