http://www.thenation.com/article/168833/obamacares-women
These days the only progressives who aren’t declaring Obama a huge disappointment are the ones who insist they never believed him in the first place. I wish I had a dollar for every woman who blames Obama for giving lip service to women’s rights while throwing them under the proverbial bus whenever convenient.(I shared some of that outrage in numerous columns here, so I guess I’d be paying one of those dollars to myself.) He made noted sexist Larry Summers director of the National Economic Council and invited the even more sexist Rick Warren to preachify at his inauguration. He compromised abortion care right out of healthcare reform. When HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected her medical committee’s recommendation that Plan B (emergency contraception) be sold over the counter, the reaction from feminists (including me) was instant and ferocious. It didn’t help that Obama called it a “common-sense” law that he supported “as the father of two daughters.” If he’d been the father of two sons, would he have wanted condoms available to those 16 and under only by prescription?It’s right that we hold the president accountable—any president, because by now Hillary Clinton, to say nothing of John Edwards (!), would surely have let us down. But ladies, let’s give the guy some credit. This president took on the combined power of the Catholic, evangelical and fundamentalist churches only a few weeks after the Plan B fiasco by insisting that religious institutions get only a narrow exemption from birth control coverage requirements in the Affordable Care Act.That was a bit of a surprise, wasn’t it, coming from a man widely castigated as weak, timid, temporizing and eager to make deals with conservatives? Obama took a huge political risk for women’s health and rights—and in an election year. It’s not at all clear how this will play out in November, either, now that opponents are reframing the issue as “religious freedom.” I’d say the president deserves a hearty round of applause.The fact is, progressive women should be more enthusiastic about Obama. After all, he got through Congress a massive expansion of healthcare—something the Democrats have been trying to do since Truman. Bill Clinton, in retrospect everyone’s favorite shrewd and savvy politician, tried and failed, spectacularly. Yet the “weak and timid” Obama succeeded. How about that?
yes Ladies right and left give him his props, name another that has done as much to insure your health well being and over all respect of you as equal and mostly more capable of handling anything they can and probably better. don't vote that status away by punching Romney's name or any other right wing wanna be. it's your future that you are deciding, who are you for "YOU" or Romney's getting rid of all that's there specifically for you, your daughters and mothers?
you know who's on your side and who just disrespects you like it's 10,000 BC
