Is anyone upset that the fact that women's issues are a political issue.?

Question

I have been part of a political family for a long time my parents taught me to vote based on issues not party lines. But what gets me annoyed is that I have find how these candidates on birth control, abortion and etc.. have we gone back in time vs going forward.

Answer 1

There are millions of women who don't think abortion-on-demand at any stage of pregnancy is a "right", no matter how much Democrats insist otherwise.

Answer 2

As you will notice, most of the negative answers below are from men. Unfortunately, I feel that the progress we thought we had gained over the last 50 years has all been imaginary.



They continue to lie about us wanting "free" birth control, when all we want is for it to be covered by insurance just as Viagra is for them. If they think a woman is interested in sex, even though that was not Sandra Fluke's complaint, they condemn her and call her insulting names. Only men are supposed to be able to indulge in the pleasure of sex without fear of pregnancy. Women are not, and if they like sex, they're sluts. And if we have the nerve to ask for it, then we're not only sluts, we're lesbian.



Some of them believe women do not want equal pay, even though women now head more households than men or are the only breadwinners in the family.



Republicans claim that this is a side issue, when what it really is is a woman's control of her reproduction, which changes the whole picture of society. They want us to submit like Taliban women without question.

Answer 3

The control of women by men has always been a political issue.

You get men in a room making decisions and the first thing they do is make the rules for women's dress, behavior, the general limits on what she can and 'should' do.

Whether its religion or politics its always the same.



The freedom that today's women hold was hard won, we were jailed, beaten, force fed, just for wanting to vote in this country.

We've been blown up, killed and blinded by extremists who want to tell us when to have a baby. The milder ones just hurl invectives at you when you go to the Ob-gyn for a checkup.

If we just accept the idea that it won't change, it will, and we will again be reminded of what it was like when abortion was illegal, and you couldn't get the pill even when married. I really hope women understand that what we took can be taken away if we ignore it, or pretend its a petty annoyance compared to the economy.

A dead woman isn't a petty annoyance.

Answer 4

Democrats want you to think we have gone back in time, and they have been repeating the same mantra for the past 50 years.



No access to birth control for women? First off, when did birth control become only a woman's responsibility? Ridiculous!



Abortion will become illegal? Really? It's was settled by the most conservative Supreme Court in history.



Don't listen to the fear mongering.

Answer 5

I just wonder is all these MEN that decide they don't want to fund birth control and abortions are the same MEN that passed the laws to cover Viagra too? Can we stop funding those kinds of medications so they can all suffer from limp *****? Just curious...

Answer 6

It is frustrating that party line votes are based on social issues. We have an economy to fix but that doesn't matter because we would have to sacrifice women's issues to actually have a choice.

Answer 7

No, absolutely not! Anytime a politician forgets or chooses to ignore their mandates, I am more than happy to help them. Lately a lot of them seem to forget they are meant to be governing the US as a whole, not what happens inside individual citizens and happily there is an election coming up soon.

Answer 8

im not upset. its a totale propaganda Hype, that women are being targeted to think they are abused.

remember, women didnt have the right to vote until the 20th century. and for good reasons.

the proof is real. that said, i have always believed in equal rights, however, economically, i have come to believe that women should not be in the work force, because every woman that works, takes away the jobs of a man that needs to feed his family. everyone woman that is not married should be cared for by their father. women in the work force take away jobs.

that said,

some women need to work for survival the right to work is acceptible also under extreme circumstances. however, every job i have had where i have the same job as a woman, they usually do nothing and men are still left to work harder than women and sometimes women get higher wages than men, for less work, so while i say i believe in equal rights, women get special rights and privelages which unequally yoke men to do most of the heavy lifting and the hard job duties.

Answer 9

Feminism assaults specific factors of many non secular texts that they locate objectionable, no longer Christianity as an entire. to boot which, i do no longer bear in mind any magnificent Jewish feminists ever being something greater effective than nominally Jewish. there is not any case for bringing nonexistent non secular war into your already misguided arguments. EDIT: definite, i'm Jewish. returned, nominally. The answerers above and under me are patently antitheists, that's their appropriate, yet such ideology isn't a necessary element to feminism and by no skill has been. to boot which, nearly all of the 1st actual feminists have been Christian. EDIT: positive then, i'm an atheist Jew. Feminism isn't a in truth Jewish ideology. the reality that some (no longer all) of its substantial proponents have been Jewish is beside the point and is only used to hearth up non secular debate. And please word that Zelda made it very sparkling that no longer all Christians have faith in what feminists tend to locate incorrect with the Bible. Did you omit the "those denominations" bit? EDIT: you only spoke back your individual question. on the grounds that under 2% of the inhabitants is Jewish, approximately ninety 8% of people who adhere to the old testomony are Christian. it fairly is why it may look to a great variety of those that those suggestions are Christian ones. And after having spent 19 years as a feminist and a Jew, i can think of of no longer something that could desire to make one synonymous with the different.

Answer 10

Agreed.

Answer 11

Yes, republicans always try this in election years, but the past 3 years have seen more legislation against women's rights than ever before in our nation's history. It has been so bad that republican women have spoken out against their own party, saying that their party "is setting women's rights back 50 years". Olympia Snowe (R) ended up retiring versus having to defend her own party.

Answer 12

I think women should have access to birth control, but not at the expense of the American taxpayer. If the government should pay for a woman's birth control pills, why shouldn't they pay for my condoms?



As for abortion, I feel it should be illegal except in the most extreme cases. It is not an application of one's moral thought process onto the rest of America. It is a moral opposition to murder.

Answer 13

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Answer 14

thats all the voting is any more is party lines. Maybe try the libertarian party, its the party of principles.

Answer 15

Women have the same issues as men. We need a better economy and a lot more jobs.



The rest is a distraction, part of Obama's divide and conquer strategy to distract from his failed record.

Answer 16

Social issues have played a role for some time...



I agree with 2amend.

Answer 17

Created by Democrats to scare you into voting for them.



If birth control / abortion are your top concerns, then yes, you are a Democrat.

Answer 18

Yeah. If a woman is casting her vote based on whether or not she free condoms, we've got huge problems.

Answer 19

The left have forced these free condom issues back in the limelight for political reasons. They have to try to get support somehow in this dreadful economy.



I wonder if Sandra Fluke will have balloons drop after her speech ... or blown up condoms. LOL

Answer 20

No, but we need to go back. Back to before abortion was legal and back before we were slaughtering millions of the unborn.

Answer 21

I'm so tired of the democratic party using women as tools. You are being used ladies. But I'm a conservative so obviously you won't listen to me.

Answer 22

if romney becomes president i'll never have sex again because there's no way i'm having a baby just because the condom broke.