Women of America Unite!

For anyone who was watching the last debate on Monday night, you may have heard Mitt Romney talk about the necessity of gender equality in the Middle East. My first reaction to that was, "wait, Mitt Romney said what?" because, of course, he's not one who tends to advocate for women's rights. My second reaction was, "how full of bs is this guy?" Mitt Romney, and especially Paul Ryan, have never been a friend to women's rights. Hell, if Mitt Romney couldn't even answer if he supported the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, really, what does that mean for our female future if he became president?

Richard Mourdock, a GOP senate candidate in Indiana, said in his debate last night, that if a woman gets pregnant from rape, it is "something God intended to happen." I mean, is it really? I don't think so. I think Republicans are just sick creeps who have a genuine disdain for women. Oh, and guess who just released a campaign commercial, proclaiming his support and adoration for Mr. Mourdock? Yeah, Mitt Romney. Isn't that nice? (but of course, Mr. Mitt "backed away" from Mourdock's comments. I bet.) These kinds of comments are not just out of the blue, once in awhile, off the cuff quips. This attitude has been a common theme with the GOP for a very, very long time. It just seems like this election cycle, it's been more solidified. They are becoming more open with their misogynist message. They've simply given up on caring whether or not the American public finds that kind of message acceptable.

We really need to ask ourselves a serious question - Do we want someone who, in one of his first acts as president, signed a law for fair pay? Someone who passed a healthcare law that made being a woman NO LONGER a preexisting condition? Someone who supports a woman's right to choose? Who supports women struggling to pay for school and find jobs? A president who treats us as equals? The answer is, of course, a resounding YES!

Mitt Romney and his campaign PUSHED for a personhood clause in the GOP platform at the Republican National Convention. If you haven't noticed, since then, Mitt has taken on a few interesting positions on birth control and abortion. In the second debate with President Obama, Romney said he wants women to have access to birth control. Uh...really? Because the last time I checked, he and Paul Ryan are fervently anti-choice. They play up to their extreme base very well, and it pays off for them. It's gross, and it's wrong, but that's the GOP for you.

What is really unfortunate, is that a lot of women will be voting for Mitt Romney this year. One of the Romney campaign cornerstones is repealing the Affordable Care Act. That legislation single-handedly put women back in control. Insurance companies could turn us away, our natural biological functions considered a "pre-existing condition." Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan want to go back to that, and no matter how many times Romney switches his position, we know that above everything, he wants to get rid of the ACA, and along with that goes pre-existing condition coverage. I don't know about you, but I don't want insurance companies to once again be allowed to tell us that our periods are grounds for denying us health care. It's not like we some how have the power to just shut that whole thing down.

Obama/Biden 2012!