Todd Gitlin highlights a point Garance made months ago: The Republican field all say "life begins at conception." So it's time to start asking them -- especially the surging Baptist minister -- whether they think hormonal birth control should be legal. The pill, in some cases, prevents implantation of a fertilized egg, not fertilization itself. That's a favorite talking point of the anti-choicers, and the reason they harp on it is because they truly don't believe in access to this most common of birth control methods. I would also pose this question to candidates of both parties: Do you believe pharmacists have the right to deny birth control to single women? --Dana Goldstein
