[quote=SK in CV][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
As to the “War on Women”: Are we discussing the actual war on women, or the vote-getting scheme as practiced by the Democratic Party?[/quote]
The actual one. Whereby more anti-abortion laws were enacted in the last 3 years than had been enacted in the previous 10 years combined. And that was only through last year. The harshest restrictions have been passed this year. And more recently, the attack on contraceptives. But only contraceptives for women. A third of women in this country live in counties without abortion providers. A dozen states have only have a small handful of providers in the entire state. Unless it’s changed recently, Kansas has 1. For the entire state, due to legal restrictions. It’s a real thing, not an imaginary one.[/quote]
SK: I never said it was imaginary, hence my use of the word “notional” and quotation marks. I very much believe that there is a war on women, just as I believe, and have argued, that there is a war on the poor and less fortunate.
I also believe that the Democratic Party uses this as an issue to pander for votes. Not saying that the Republican Party doesn’t pander as well, just that this isn’t their issue.
As I said to Scaredy: I don’t have an ax to grind here, I was simply pointing out that I felt there were flaws in his argument. Much of the reportage surrounding this decision has been fairly breathless and somewhat at odds with the facts. Given this is an election year, one might suspect that there is a point to that approach.
