There has been much public hand-wringing over, "women's health v. religious freedom", in the last few weeks, as pretty much everyone except the extreme right wing of the Republican Party has tried to wrap their collective brains around why the GOP seems so hell-bent on self-destructing over a seemingly settled issue like women's rights. Instead, it's been one incongruous visual after another of Right Wing religious men attempting to interject themselves into the most intimate areas of women's lives. And Rush.



You can see the stunned amazement on the faces of women under 40, wondering how professional male politicians, whether in their state legislature or Congress, could think for even a single moment that they could possibly have the right to tell women whether or not they should be able to get birth control? Or, yes, even have the right to tell them whether or not they can get an abortion?



It's preposterous on it's face that there is an actual, concerted effort to roll back woman's rights, and not just to a pre-Roe v. Wade era, but all the way back to before the 1965 Supreme Court ruling that established that it was none of the state's business to tell women whether or not they could use birth control, Griswold v. Connecticut. It can't be true, it's too nuts. Why are they doing it?



98% of women use birth control, and a solid majority of American women -- and men - support the right of women to make their own decision regarding all of their reproductive choices, including abortion. Why would even the most extreme Republicans be so incredibly tone deaf as to think that trying to roll back women's reproductive rights is any kind of good idea?





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