I'm so glad you chose this topic, Alise.  I was shocked and dismayed to find out that in this day and age, birth control for women is still an issue with anyone.  But apparently, Rush Limbaugh and his little blue Viagra pills are just A-okay, and as a superior male being, he has the right to cast judgment on a young lady who explained the medicinal value of the pill and call her a slut and a prostitute and tell her she ought to make a porno tape and let him watch it to pay for her pills.  It seemed like we were back in 1972 again to this old feminist.

Rick Santorum, who seemed to be campaigning for high school dance chaperon more than running for president, says he doesn't think birth control is necessary or that it's good for women.  And a lot of republicans don't seem to mind as they are thinking about teen sex, and don't realize that this so-called "small government" man wants to control what married people do as well.  Scott Walker, good old union buster, has also jumped on the bandwagon against birth control.  And again the rightwing seems to be okay with it.  Somehow it all seems to come down to the female sex and keeping them under control, yet the GOP as turned this all around and is now calling it "Obama's War on Women."  I keep wondering where the republican women's outrage is on all this, but traditionally, republicans seem to be obsessed with sex, especially other people's and what they might be doing, so they see this as an attack on promiscuity, not on women, working women who can't just be pregnant all the time.  

The latest has been the so-called attack on Mrs. Romney for being a stay-at-home mom of five.  I have just come from a message board where people are saying that President Obama put the lady reporter up to asking her the obvious.  But Mitt has sent his wife out to be an ambassador to try and smooth the ruffled feathers of women offended by the whole birth control thing, and he says his wife tells him that women aren't all that worried about contraception, but jobs is their big issue.  So if I was that reporter, my question would be just what kind of jobs could women get and hold if they are pregnant all the time?  Taking in laundry and babysitting?  Can anyone anywhere be sane about this???  Must it be a political issue instead of a woman's issue?  I'd love to hear from republican women on this.  Thank you.