Mitt Romney is firing back at the Obama administration on the issue of the mandate for health insurance plans (including those provided by religious schools, hospitals and other organizations) to cover contraception, ABC News reports, after White House press secretary Jay Carney noted that the same mandate was present in Massachusetts under Romney.

“Mr. Carney needs to check his history,” Romney told reporters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Romney said that “that provision was put in Massachusetts before I was governor, and then when I was governor I tried to have it removed in our health care plan. So in the working on our health care plan I worked very hard to get the legislature to remove all of the mandated coverages, including contraception. So quite clearly he needs to understand that was a provision that got there before I did and it was one that I fought to remove.”