Republicans Brought the Gender Gap Upon Themselves

Ms Marshall,

Before you wigged out and wrote this, perhaps you should have placed yourself in another's shoes and looked at it from their perspective. Why should I pay for your "free" contraceptives? Why should I also pay for your "free" food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, welfare, etc? Your problem is that just like the President you voted for, you believe in Socialism to the extreme. Socialism works only so long as you have someone else's money to spend. Well, right now, we are all out of someone else's money and I'm tired of being asked to pay up to cover someone else's poor choices, including yours.

Dan of MO 12:34PM April 09, 2012

Leslie Marshall is so right -- there most certainly is a Republican War on Women, and they are going to lose that war, massively, starting in November.

However, Ms. Marshall did make one error. She writes "As a woman, you can't win with the GOP. They don't want you to have sex, get pregnant, or prevent pregnancy; and if you want to avoid pregnancy, don't use birth control. And if you're going to use birth control, they don't want to pay for it". But in fact, no one's asking them to pay for anyone else's birth control. All the Affordable Care Act is asking is for employers not to sabotage the normal and customary coverage (already required by State law in some cases) by job-related heath insurance. In other words, it's saying: don't let heath insurance companies rob a woman by taking her insurance premiums, and then refusing to cover her contraception.

This is a simple matter of fairness in insurance supported by insurance premiums; this is NOT a matter of taxpayer dollars paying for contraception --though rabid Republican propagandists like Limbaugh have tried to deceive people into believing otherwise.

The Republican politicians and media have lied until their noses were miles long trying to mislead people into thinking that this is somehow about employers' religious freedom; or about taxpayers subsidizing contraception. It just isn't. Those are all lies.

Mike 1776 of NJ 11:11PM April 04, 2012

Etch a sketcher will show his true colors after he drowns Sanitorium in Corporate donated, and Mormon money.

The Mormon church is Romney. For those of you that care to know what the Mormon church does, and preaches, should look into it. Start with how many small businesses they have started, and hired illegal aliens to do the work. Don't have to pay benefits, withold taxes, but don't submit them.

EVERYTHING is done for the church, and only their own members. When they speak, they only hear themselves. Try having a two way conversation. GOOD LUCK

n lei of MI 9:33PM April 04, 2012

It is all too easy to pick out a member of the Democrat Party, particularly these days, when there is little or no credible documentation attached for reference, proof, or evidence (that is, with the exception of a biased reference from some known leftist media source) ....but there certainly are a lot of assuptive and "emotional only" responses!

IE: Leslie Marshall has admitted in a previous blog, "My husband was raised Muslim and his parents are Muslim." http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/leslie-marshall/2011/12/14/boycott-lowes-over-all-american-muslim-intolerance

....so we all know where she is at!

bruce b of NV is renouned for his consistant assumptions and unproven leftist propaganda, as is Carl of FL, AKA, "It's true because I said so".

Sorry, people! If there is no reliable accompanying documentation to back yourselves

....it's made-up junk!

Have a terrific day everyone ; )

Karen W. of IL 7:42PM April 04, 2012