There's really no elephant in the room here. The left is desperate to make this about women. The media is complicit in allowing it to happen. Then those sides act all outraged when some idiot takes the bait while smiling that the real issue is being ignored.

Never mind that the President has effectively said "yeah, so this is a matter of eternal salvation for you? Too damn bad." We need to make sure we paint the right as anti-women!!!11 Nakedly cynical ploy.