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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you know one of these "undecided" women pondering giving up control of her body to repub rule?
My 24 year old daughter can't imagine it, my 81 year old mother can't imagine it - and this father and son can't imagine it!!!
Not just the women of course, but the men too. Yet it's the women who will become criminals for seeking out reproductive freedom for their bodies if Romney wins and appoints anti-choice justices to the SCOTUS.
For those that drank the kool-aid already, "stupid is as stupid does" (said Forrest).
Yet when I think about the so called "undecided" women at tonight's debate, who are they and what the hell is so damn hard to decide?
When you challenge your fence-sitting women friends or relatives and ask them are you willing to give up control of your bodies? What do they say?
Rambis
(7,774 posts)or can you? Don't ask one of the fence sitters- Clearly it is a good thing the breathing is both a voluntary and an involuntary muscle reaction or these people would be in trouble!
Armstead
(47,803 posts)I can understand why a woman with strong anti-abortion views might choose Romney for a freason.
But any other women who is at all concerned with those issues but supports Romney because he did well in the debate is not paying any attention whatsoever.
Only explanation i can think of.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)she won't be able to control anything. Jobs? Forget your college degrees, nice portfolios, when MEN will be hired OVER A FEMALE, because she could become PREGNANT.
I head it ALL as a young woman in the corporate world decades ago. Older women who have experienced this really need to make THIS CASE to the younger generation of women. All Romney's millions of jobs won't matter shit if the men won't hire WOMEN because they can make BABIES.
RiverStone
(7,228 posts)No doubt, turning the clock back to the 1950's. Lose/lose for everybody.
HockeyMom, maybe I'm out of the loop here - but I don't know or understand who these women (and men) are that can't see the ramifications!
Do you know any and how do they justify it?
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)who are Independents in Texas or Arizona. Young or old. So exactly WHO these women? Stepfort Wives like Queen Ann?
catbyte
(34,438 posts)damn lazy or too damn stupid to reproduce.
I hate being embarrassed by my gender
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)BUT, their husbands don't go into the voting booth with them. I know of Republican women who vote the opposite of their husbands and keep it quiet, except to their female friends. Remember...she's a woman first, a wife second. We would never expose them.
bowens43
(16,064 posts)the whole idea that undecided voters will be swayed by the issues is nonsense. If there really are any undecided voters they will swayed only by appearance. Who do I like? Who would I rather drink a beer with? Which candidate looks most confident. Who has the best hair? etc
This why Obama's performance in the last debate was such a monumental fuck up. He looked unprepared and worried. Not good
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Yes, she gets it. Besides her own issues of civil rights and marriage equality, she, too, understands that ALL FEMALES will be at the mercy of these Fundie Men. She certainly believes that her younger, married sister deserves to control HER her own reproduction, and not some man in congress who thinks "sex must have consequences", and that she and her husband should have as many babies as some god thinks.