The forgotten front
by digby
The war on women continues apace:
In a strongly worded speech, Sebelius said Republicans are not only working to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, but also want to take away benefits in Medicare, cut back Medicaid and eliminate health services provided by Planned Parenthood.
“We’ve come a long way in women’s health over the last few decades, but we are in a war,” Sebelius said at a NARAL Pro-Choice America luncheon attended by about 300 people, who gave some of their loudest applause at her mention of the Obama administration’s support for requiring insurance plans to cover birth control without copays.
“In other words, they don’t just want to go after the last 18 months, they want to roll back the last 50 years in progress women have made in comprehensive health care in America,” Sebelius said.
Well naturally. Viagra helps mostly older men achieve sexual pleasure, which is a fundamental right. Birth control, on the other hand, encourages the sluts to tempt them. Big difference. Huge.
On the larger issue, if you care about this keep an eye on it. While the Democrats are (mostly) seeing the usefulness of confronting the right on class issues, they are very likely to be searching madly for ways to find common cause with them on culture war issues. With all the successful anti- choice activity at statehouses around the country they may very well decide that women have to take yet another bullet for the team. It wouldn’t be the first time …
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