{"id":9187,"date":"2012-10-18T11:19:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9187"},"modified":"2012-10-18T11:19:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:19:46","slug":"willard-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/willard-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Willard on Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Perhaps three of Willard Romney\u2019s biggest debate lies related to Women\u2019s Rights.&#160; He said that he supports equal pay for women.&#160; He said that he supports the right of women to have access to birth control.&#160; He said that, after he was elected, he was presented with all male cabinet candidates, so he instituted a search for qualified women.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"18RomneyHeygirl1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"18RomneyHeygirl1\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/18RomneyHeygirl1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/>It has dawned on Mitt Romney that he has a problem with female voters. He just has no idea what to do about it, since it is the result of his positions on abortion, contraception, health services and many other issues. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/17\/us\/politics\/obama-and-romney-turn-up-the-temperature-at-their-second-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\">On Tuesday night<\/a>, he bumbled his way through <strong>a cringe-inducing attempt to graft what he thinks should be 2012 talking points onto his 1952 sensibility<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>In the midst of their rancorous encounter at Hofstra University, President Obama attacked Mr. Romney for vowing he would end federal support of Planned Parenthood and for criticizing the provision in the health care law that requires employers \u2014 except churches and religiously affiliated institutions \u2014 to provide insurance coverage for contraceptives. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"18RomneyHeygirl2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"18RomneyHeygirl2\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/18RomneyHeygirl2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/>Clearly agitated, Mr. Romney said in response, \u201cI\u2019d just note that I don\u2019t believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not, and I don\u2019t believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care or not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Mr. Romney forgot that <strong>he vetoed a bill as Massachusetts governor in 2005 that would have given women who were raped access to emergency contraception, or that he supported an amendment this year that would have allowed any business to opt out of the contraceptive mandate, or that he has said he would support a state constitutional amendment that would declare that life begins at conception \u2014 potentially making some kinds of contraceptives illegal<\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added]<\/em>&#160;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/18\/opinion\/mr-romneys-version-of-equal-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/emilyslist.org\/blog\/hey-girl\" target=\"_blank\">Emily&#8217;s List<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Alex Witt talked to Romney campaign advisor Kerry Heally, who tried to conflate the religious freedom of employers to refuse birth control with women&#8217;s right to access birth control. They also discussed the infamous binders.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc68638f\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=49450850^0^431632&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc68638f\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=49450850^0^431632&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She actually contradicted Willard\u2019s lie about seeking out binders of women, although he is still making that claim on the stump. Note how she insists that two mutually exclusive positions are both true. Note how she changed the subjected and parroted lies whenever Alex tried to pin her down.&#160; I don\u2019t think a woman in Heally\u2019s position could be stupid enough to believe that providing universal access to birth control and allowing employers to deny birth control on religious grounds do not contradict each other.&#160; Therefore, she is learning to lie at the feet of master, the Lord of Lies.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps three of Willard Romney\u2019s biggest debate lies related to Women\u2019s Rights.&#160; He said that he supports equal pay for women.&#160; He said that he supports the right of women to have access to birth control.&#160; He said that, after he was elected, he was presented with all male cabinet candidates, so he instituted a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/willard-on-women\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}