There Is No GOP War On Women. It's Much Worse
You declare war on people you despise. To despise, you have to feel. The GOP has declared a Jihad to restore what they might call traditional values: right-wingers have never come to grips with Roe v. Wade (which, by the way, was meant to protect doctors from criminal prosecution, not especially to identify a woman's right to choose). Apparently some in the Republican Party also haven't quite come to terms with the notion of contraception, either. But the common thread isn't a hatred of women. The hate is directed elsewhere. Women don't matter. And that's much worse. What's the proof? When the Obama Administration stepped in it by in-artfully engaging the Catholic Church over contraception coverage in the health care plans for the employees of their secular enterprises, the GOP had a winning hand. You can't just treat a protected class like anyone else -- heck, religious institutions don't even pay property taxes. Whenever you have more than one