Posted on 03/11/2012 3:39:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
...somewhere between the baby name game and the gifts, what had been light conversation took a sharp turn toward the personal and political — specifically, the battle over access to birth control and other women’s health issues that have sprung to life on the Republican campaign trail in recent weeks.
“We all agreed that this seemed like a throwback to 40 years ago,” said Ms. Russell, 57, a retired teacher from Iowa City who describes herself as an evangelical Christian and “old school” Republican of the moderate mold.
Until the baby shower, just two weeks ago, she had favored Mitt Romney for president.
Not anymore. She said she might vote for President Obama now. “I didn’t realize I had a strong viewpoint on this until these conversations,” Ms. Russell said. As for the Republican presidential candidates, she added: “If they’re going to decide on women’s reproductive issues, I’m not going to vote for any of them. Women’s reproduction is our own business.”
.....Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania who is one of Mr. Romney’s rivals for the nomination, created a tempest late last month by speaking out against prenatal testing. Earlier comments about women in combat and the role of “radical feminism” in encouraging work outside the home also left some women ill at ease.
“Everybody is so busy telling us how we should act in the bedroom, they’re letting the country fall through the cracks,” said Fran Kelley, a retired public school worker in Seattle who voted for Senator John McCain over Mr. Obama in the 2008 election. Of the Republican candidates this year, she added, “They’re nothing but hatemongers trying to control everyone, saying, ‘Live as I live.’...
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Excellent reference.
“The Law” Bastiat
Why would a 57-year old woman, well past her child-bearing years, care so much about killing babies? That’s what this all about, really, is killing babies. A young girl makes a mistake (a baby, as Obama once called it) and wants to kill the product of that mistake. But should a 57-year old care about that?
Maybe you answered my question — see post 142
Wow, is that real?
They are ineligible because the didn’t pay into the system. Those “in the know”, however, worked during their summers to get enough “quarters” in to be eligible. It didn’t take much, other than to swallow their pride and go “clerk” in a store a few summers, or some other entry level position. I knew tons of teachers who did that so that they could “double dip” in their retirement.
Part of this “blank” spot on their brains is that they hear of somebody’s large bonus in the private sector and assume that that person gets a bonus like that every year. They never factor in the years in that person’s career where they got no bonus, or took a cut, or worked 80 hour weeks, no vacation, no retirement, commission only, and sometimes no pay to “make it”. They hear of a well paid job in the private sector and do not realize that the holder of that job gets to hold it for 2-3 years at the most before they are eased out. It is very rare indeed for people starting out in the private sector these days to hold a job from college graduation until retirement.
It's unthinkable now.
this is just bootstrapping the campaign piece of contraception=abortion talking point of the administration.
The NYT is just being partisan with these faux conservatives.
for the NYT anyone that is radical left is moderate in their eyes.
sure NYT....this story is so believable.....”centrist” women.....when are we going to hear about the “nascar” obama moms....
I'm sorry; I'm dense, I guess. Is WHAT real?
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