Snowe re: GOP's War Against Women - "it's a retro debate. It took place in the 1950s."

[kpete]

Snowe, the famously moderate Republican senator from Maine who announced her retirement in February, citing excessive partisanship, spoke about her early years in Congress in an effort to underscore how much women's political rights have improved since she took office in the late 1970s.

"There was a time in America when husbands cancelled their pensions on their spouses without their knowing, only learning about it upon their death," said Snowe.

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"And now it comes to contraceptive coverage," said Snowe. "You know, it really is surprising, because I feel like it's a retro debate. It took place in the 1950s. It's sort of back to the future, isn't it? And it is surprising in the 21st century that we would be revisiting this issue."

Snowe urged the women in the room to "keep the fight up." She posed for a group photo and then yielded the stage back to Bennett, who led the remaining women in a pledge in order to "remind each other of the changes we're about to make in the world."

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/04/5615166/womens-fund-event-sends-olympia-snowe-and-launches-sandra-fluke

[countryjake]

1. Retro debate?

[librechik]

2. Repubs run on social issues then fail to do anything once in office (of course

Practically nobody wants their shitty agenda in real life)

They then can use the same tired old issues to call the cranky, elderly, and misogynistic to the polls year after year.