What Kind of Freedom Confuses Women, Exactly?

So let me get this straight......Now as a woman, I'm easily confused by non marital sexual experiences????? What effing Century are these people living in???? Listen sweetie, just because you're so weak and demure doesn't mean the rest of us are. If this is the best republicans can do with the jobs that they have been elected to do, then the Democrats definitely have my vote in the coming election.

I am 65 and raised three smart kind successful daughters. I pray that common sense and wisdom prevails and everyone who can vote will ensure that women put their votes where their mouths are. We must vote for CHOICE, for personal freedom over our bodies and our minds, so the dinosaurs in the GOP do not prevail. Until women walk their talk and speak out against this kind of ignorance, or worse, planned maneuvers to put us back in the kitchen, barefoot, pregnant with no rights of equality, I fear for the future of our young women.

The first freedom that I'd like to talk about is sexual freedom... I have yet to meet a woman who's thriving with that particular freedom.

Hiya dippitydo, glad to meet ya.

Maybe you should try something other then missionary, then you could "thrive"..

Support for the Blunt amendment, which would allow insurers and employers to deny coverage of health services they find morally objectionable, truly has me concerned. This nonsense has gone from state to state and now to the US congress. Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia explained over 20 years ago: ” In other words, so long as a law does not single out people of faith for inferior treatment, they have to follow the same laws as everyone else”. The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment commands that "Congress shall make no law . . . prohibiting the free exercise [of religion]." No one is preventing Catholics from following their religious beliefs. If the Catholic Church is going to employ individuals (especially in secular businesses) they need to provide these individuals with the same benefits required of other employers. While the current barrage of new laws clearly tries to impose religious beliefs on all American women, it cannot be legal to deny 90% of Catholic women (that use/will use/have used) contraceptive alternatives. Listening to a bishop answer a question about concern for employees of Catholic or Catholic affiliated institutions not having access to this medical coverage, my draw dropped! He said he “would hope anyone working there would have the same views as his”. What century is he living in? Our current economic environment doesn’t exactly give someone the opportunity to just quit a job. Catholic hierarchy has been losing the contraceptive fight among its parishioners for decades. I know because I am one of them. I chose to exercise my sexuality without bringing a child into this world that I simply could not afford to raise or educate properly. I see that as responsible not sinful. My mother applied for and received a special dispensation to take birth control due to a medical condition in the 80’s. Do they no longer grant these? If they do, how can they say it is outside their religious beliefs? Or maybe, like everything else, it just comes down to money…who pays for it. I hope the Catholic Church is being paid well by the insurance companies. It is worthwhile noting, there is a division among the women and men in leadership in the church. As further proof that conservative efforts to paint President Obama as the enemy of religion are a red herring, nearly two dozen leading Catholic nuns filed a brief in the Supreme Court last week supporting the president’s signature legislative accomplishment. The Catholic sisters who joined the brief include the leaders of many prominent religious orders providing health care and other services to the needy.