The most recent 'Corporate Empowerment' by the conservative-leaning Supreme Court in their Hobby Lobby decision IS offensive. Offensive for a variety of reasons, including:
-- Corporations think that your 'family planning' is their prerogative.
-- Corporations want to get between you and your doctor's advice.
-- that Corporations can even have Religious Views, which by this decision, simply trump yours.
The silver-lining in it all, as crass as it might be, is that it is something that serves to unite and motive women, from all walks of life, to stand up and say: Enough!
Enough of these conservative, bloviating men, trying to tell women 'What's good for them'.
Enough of women, from all walks of life, just sitting there and accepting it.
Especially that growing demographic otherwise known as "Single Women" ...
As Numbers Grow, Single Women Emerge as Political Powerhouse
by Jakie Calmes, NYTimes.com -- July 2, 2014
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With their Senate majority at stake in November, Democrats and allied groups are now stepping up an aggressive push to woo single women -- young and old, highly educated and working class, never married, and divorced or widowed. This week they seized on the ruling by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, five men, that family-owned corporations do not have to provide birth control in their insurance coverage, to buttress their arguments that Democrats better represent women’s interests.
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Half of all adult women over the age of 18 are unmarried -- 56 million, up from 45 million in 2000 -- and now account for one in four people of voting age. (Adult Hispanics eligible to vote, a group that gets more attention, number 25 million this year.) Single women have become Democrats’ most reliable supporters, behind African-Americans: In 2012, two-thirds of single women who voted supported President Obama. Among married women, a slim majority supported Mitt Romney.
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Single women, Democrats say, will determine whether they keep Senate seats in states including Alaska, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan and North Carolina -- and with them, their Senate majority -- and seize governorships in Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, among other states.
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There's a lot at stake in this next election. Will we have
more of the same -- of bloviating conservative men, telling us all what to think and do? As they trot out
their edicts, according to their own 'Do-as-I-Say' hypocritical beliefs?
Will we let them continue on this money-is-speech slippery slope, that Corporations are MORE important than people?
Or will Women, from all walks of life, stand up and say "No More" ... that it is time, that these ultra-conservative ideologues have Got to Go!
And it's not like the knife-edge that the conservative bloviators are now walking -- has crept up on them unnoticed.
It's just that they are hoping, beyond hope, that hectic hard-working under-paid women, won't notice the life-impacts being dished out, by this conservative activist court (impacts that the GOP is now quietly cheering):
Dems attack as confident Republicans tread carefully after Supreme Court birth control ruling
by Associated Press; foxnews.com -- July 01, 2014
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"The thought of your boss telling you what kind of birth control you can and can't get is offensive and it certainly is motivating to women to vote," said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which plans to spend several million dollars this year to campaign for Senate candidates.
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But Republican leaders such as Priebus were careful to avoid mentioning the impact on women and their reproductive rights, underscoring the delicate balance the GOP must strike as it works to improve its image among women. The party is still recovering from a series of insensitive comments made by GOP candidates in the 2012 election, including Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin, whose campaign crumbled after he said women's bodies were able to avoid pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape."
"Republicans have to be careful about not appearing as though they're anti-contraception. This is a constitutional issue," said Katie Packer Gage, a GOP strategist whose firm advises Republicans on navigating women's issues. "We have to be very, very cautious as a party."
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'Don't make it about contraception GOP' -- that strategist warns. Talk about freedom and first amendment and the 'evils of Obamacare' mandates ... just don't let that hard-working and underpaid woman realize,
that their conservative philosophy just took away from them (America's Women) their newly acquired insurance-covered birth-control.
All because their Boss might object. On supposed 'moral grounds', they NOW CAN instruct 'their binders-full of women employees' how to live.
Well the Former Speaker of the House, had another contrary keen insight into these working women -- one exactly the opposite of keeping them in the dark ... Nancy Pelosi is saying that America's Women are smart enough to know "what's good for them" -- without conservative religious mandates, getting in their way ...
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“A lot of these are single moms, they’re young, and young people don’t know when there’s an election,” said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, during a recent four-state bus tour to raise awareness. “It isn’t any lack of civic-mindedness. They’re just living their lives in a different way than, say, seniors are.”
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And if enough of these over-worked women, from all walks of life, can be helped to realize
what's really at stake in the next election -- well that Former Speaker of the House, may just end up
being "former" no more.
When enough like-minded women of the nation, step up and tell these conservative men, 'What's good for them' -- that their tyranny is up ... Enough ... Enough of the pontificating bloviating, already. Time's up. Next!
Adiós, amigos.