Democratic women to Obama: 'Own' birth control mandate

[Swede]

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But a dozen or so Democrats I’ve spoken to in the past few days, while not oblivious to the dangers of the Catholic backlash, say there’s a big potential upside here with women voters of all political orientations, who don’t want the church, Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio, E.J. Dionne or John Boehner meddling with their bodies.

“Never underestimate the ability of female body parts to cause a political firestorm,” one Democratic consultant, a woman, emailed me. “Interesting that there's a pretty wide gender divide here, regardless of party. All the men I've seen on TeeVee question it, all the women - including Catholic women - support it.”

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/02/women-to-obama-own-birth-control-mandate-113917.html

[RainDog]

1. k&r n/t

[Missy Vixen]

2. The current administration says nothing at their peril

Romney, Rubio, Dionne and John Boehner have one thing in common: They will never have a period, hence, they have no business weighing in on this issue. The day one of them can sustain a pregnancy, they can tell me what I can do with my reproductive freedom.

It is time for President Obama to highlight this point, IMHO. Stop playing patty-cake with the religiously insane, and state that those politicizing women's health deserve the same fate as Susan G. Komen Foundation.

[MANative]

3. Yup. This.