This is the week we celebrate St. Valentine, with flowers and wine and lots of candy. So it's either weirdly appropriate or painfully ironic that the beltway explodes in a somewhat contrived debate over contraceptives at the same time.

For the sake of argument, let's set aside that the debate played out on the Sunday morning talk shows by a bunch of old men.

President Obama ignited this firestorm last week by insisting that religious groups across the country had to provide free access to preventive care for women – including birth control. (Oddly enough, the president, PPACA or the talking heads that followed made no mention of such care for men, contraceptive or not.)

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