I have questions I would certainly like to know the answer to: Are women going to take it? Is this all going to run through the two-week news cycle and be forgotten? Do women care that Republicans hate women's freedom so much that they will threaten to jam something up a woman's vagina without her consent just because she had the temerity to seek pertinent health care?
I admit I hate the radical right-wing agenda, and I have for years. It was distressing to see people so indifferent to the consequences of not voting in 2010. Did they really believe that Republicans would ignore their base's desires, fix the economy, and improve the job situation?
It seems that some women are paying attention, but do they believe that the Komen debacle was about abortion and not women's access to health care? Do they believe that the states that have pending personhood bills won't enact them to outlaw hormonal contraception?
Since the beginning of the women's movement there has been an unrelenting hatred on the right for all the advances women have made. Fundamentalist Christians believe that men's proper place is to rule over women. The idea of women making their own decisions threatens the men who cling to their traditions most strongly. When those men have control of legislatures, when they have all the power, their top priority is to rollback women's gains.
If women who understand the implications of all this get active in the November elections, the right wing will be dealt the humiliating defeats they so thoroughly deserve. But will American women remember the events of January and February? Will Rick Santorum keep reminding them, or will he fall by the wayside and see women's outrage fade with him?