Many progressive women are opposed in principle to Big Government. They identify it as Rick Santorum and Rush Limbaugh taking away their birth control, when that is only a small symptom of the real threat: take a government's money, and you must eventually do its bidding.
This principle applies to everything from student loans to government support for the arts to tax-deferred retirement accounts to "free" public schools and healthcare - all wildly popular with progressives.
I agree. We have to keep our Gov’t off their body when it comes to killing unborn children but they’ll be damned if I eat those french fries.