Let's leave it up to the states, because that makes it easier for backwards states like Oklahoma to screw with women's rights even more than they already do.

Fuck you, Romney. Go back to being irrelevant.

Yes.

Fuck you, Romney. You lost the election and American women overwhelming rejected you! Get over it and shut up!

55%-45%, so I would hardly call that "overwhelming". In my book you have to at least crack 75% for an "overwhelming" anything.

66%-74% is "substantial".

56%-65% would be "marginally"

50.1%-55% would be "barely"

If we want to discuss the change between 2008 and 2012, then yes, a 50% increase in women voting for Obama is "significant" However, the discussion was the aggregate vote, which was 55%-45%, which does NOT constitute "overwhelming" rejection by women by any reasonable definition of the word "overwhelming".

apples and oranges.

The original context was "women" as a whole rejecting Romney "overwhelmingly".

They didn't. They rejected him 55%-45%.

Why does anyone, state or federal, need to pass legislation to tell women what to do about reproduction? I'll go along with it the day they legislate the proper use and maintenance of a man's dick . . . And then fucking enforce it like they mean it.

Why does the government, federal or state, have to make such laws in the first place? The right of women to obtain birth control is innate as far as I'm concerned.

Does the government have to make a law saying that men can take Viagra? No, because everyone understands that it's strictly up to a man and his doctor to make that decision. The government need not say anything about it one way or another.

Anytime anyone even suggests that there should be laws putting restrictions on birth control, they should be jeered at and have rotten fruit thrown at them. Women should not put up with such shit. They need to claim their innate rights to do as they like with their own bodies.

Please don't hurt me.

that passing certain laws don't substantially interfere with religious exercise yet government doesn't have to prove that passing certain laws doesn't substantially interfere w/reproduction, sexuality, etc.

States grant privileges.

Birth control in any form is not a "privilege", but a right, one of those Unalienable Rights (life, liberty and pursuit of happiness applies to women as well as Obscenely wealthy old white Republicans).

collectively is the best way, imo

We all start with rights, that many others are trying to take away.
If you don't assert control on your life (and your rights), someone else
will happily do it for you.

All we have to do is claim them. People need to see it that way.

Rights are granted by being alive.

Romney doesn't want the Federal Government getting between a patient and their doctor,
but State Government is somehow okay? Huh?!?

I'm a big fan of the quote: Your rights end where another's begin

Put another way, why is Mitt relevant?

Thanks for your opinion, Mitt, but there are a hell of a lot of us who believe that women should have access to contraception and, yes, abortion services. No one needs to "...grant those rights to women." Those rights are essential for women. Go back to your life of luxury, shut the hell up and leave women alone!

I seem to remember a Mitt Romney. Can't place it.

Being brought up on racketeering charges? Just saying . . .

Still an asshole. So F'n glad he LOST that election!

That's why my dad always said rarely does anyone ever remember who came in second.

Would he nominate SCOTUS justices who would overturn Griswold v. Connecticut?

It's not at all a red herring gotcha line of questioning, as conservatives claimed at the time.

lost the election. Idiot.

(or try to halt recognizing) those rights. PERIOD.

now shut up and retire to that oblivion you so richly merit.

what utter horseshit

Pisses me off. also.
But, I have to stay sane....
So I try to change minds at a time.. when I see an opening.

Go sit in your mult-million dollar homes and leave us poor people alone.

p.s...take a ride on your "car elevator" for us.

Hell. I'd pay two months of cable for the right to see that!

getting gummit outta our biness. Unless, of course, it's a woman's right to choose or who people want to marry each other. Then it's different. Those things will make the baby Jesus cry.

"Grant" women the "right" to birth control? What the fuck? And I'm betting he still cannot figure out how he lost a presidential election. You are a dickhead, Mitt, that's why.

My uterus is not a state. It is mine. Back off, bug.

and off my bedroom, my doctor's office, and my child's school prayer..

nobody can take it away.

But what do I know - I'm not a man,

See here, ShittWitt, wtf do you think you are that you can
"grant women rights" at any fecking level? And, wtf is this
asshole doing back on the scene? Are they going to try to
install this crook as pResident, again?

Rant over, for now. Gotta get over to SCE's lulz for a fix.

I think it's downright time to turn the table on these domineering pieces of shit.

I think all men should be castrated at the state level - (see how sweeping this crap can be?)

Fuck you, Rmoney and the house you rode in on.


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because you can't be forced to have kids or not to have kids

can grant or take away birth control rights to their citizens. Does that follow that Romney believes states own their citizens?

Another reason to be thrilled he lost the election.

Keep spouting the sort of stuff that alienates the "reasonable" Republicans and motivates Democratic voters!

About reducing women's health care.

First, why on earth should anyone care what Mitt Romney has to say about anything? He has no public role now.

Second, what's up with states granting women rights to access birth control? Seriously? Let's put Mittens concept in place ... and watch even MORE jobs move from floundering red states to blue states.

And another puzzler ... The Catholic Church has been in a tizzy over the ACA and birth control. They apparently were happy as clams with the provisions in Massachusetts. Huh. What's up with that?

And one more thing ... What Republican plan for health care?

The mistakes that were made in Massachusetts were dealt with on a state level.

The biggest mistake made in Massachusetts was electing Mitt Romney in the first place.

clowns currently declaring themselves the Hope of the GOP in 2016. In a sad way, he may be right, although I believe Christie's bellicose in-your-face bullying actually endears him to a big part of the dependable GOP base.

what next dick-head.

4th Amendment and all that. AND Griswold v. Connecticut, in case you never got that at Harvard, Mitt you shithead.

Mitt you irritate the hell out of me...go away for good...

that we got a second Obama term. Even if you're disappointed in him for not being a complete liberal, he's a lot better than we would have had if that heartless weirdo had gotten in.

It is not up to the state or federal level for me to decide. This may be how it works in the Morman faith where the bishop gets to decide but not in the world of women.

...how can a state ''grant'' it?

- Aren't rights, by definition, inalienable?

You lost. That means we don't want to hear from you again. Go away. Disappear. Get lost. Amscray.

Women's rights and equality are among the most important human rights issues facing the human race.

Choice and repro/bc rights are among the most front and center of cherished freedoms of a truly free society. I'm a gay guy but I fully understand the need to vote to protect women's human rights and freedoms.

I vote against Republicans always. Even if I have to hold my nose for a moderate Dem. I prefer radical progressives.

OMG Mitt you lost 14 months ago. Shut up!

Women should not have to have legislative permission from anyone to take care of their bodies and to make decisions which are the domain of themselves and, if in a sexual relationship, their partners. Health Care for Everyone!! Maybe men should have to have permission for their needs??

Thanks for sharing.

old white man to get in to the business of women's birth control. Mitt just shut the fuck up.

Now go away and do whatever it is you do when you are not on Teevee.

Could this be that guy who made those offensive comments? I'm trying to remember if he got pulled over for drunk driving

I think you should be nominated again, as you present a less scary target than some of your ReThug cronies. Yeah, Go Mitt!

in effect (not a quote) Powers not delegated to the Federal Government, not prohibited to the states are reserved to the states, or to the people.

1. Nothing in the Constitution delegates it to the federal government.

2. So is it a state or an individual issue? Griswold v. Connecticut would suggest the state lacks a compelling interest to put it in the state bit-bucket.

However, that's regarding state prohibitions affecting individual privacy, not really about requiring the ACA mandates, or how they are or are not affected by competing individual & group rights.

And has he divested himself of the abortion remains transport company that he was making bank on?

Doubt it.

OK people, no one jump on me please.

I hate that prick, but to be fair, I don't think the word 'grant' was used in connection with states granting women the right of birth control, I think he used it in connection with requiring all insurance plans to provide birth control to women.

I believe that birth control should be included in all insurance plans, so I disagree with that asshole, thank god for that.

But I just wanted to focus the discussion in the right direction because after reading some comments on here, people are getting pissed off thinking he said that a state can decide if a women uses birth control period.

I still hate the mofo though.

He's been out and about, mouthing off, a LOT lately....

And I'll bet he still wonders why he lost.

since they can just travel to a civilized state for the procedure. The poor won't be able to afford rights, which is how it should be"

- Willard