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In reply to the discussion: "I Am A Woman" [View all]jamesatemple
(352 posts)but you can bet your sweet bippy that they have concerns about the result.
Don't you remember the first "fight" you won as a kid? I try not to remember the ten or twenty that I lost before I came involuntarily into the first one I won. It didn't amount to a popcorn fart but it gave me an increased confidence in myself and a willingness to speak up...which led me into another round of losses.
When women, the 52%, win this fight over contraception, I feel that that victory, added to the few others that they've labored for, fought for, struggled for, will compel them to take on other issues...ones that the 1% will fear to lose. At the moment, women are uniting, hopefully, against the assault on their freedom of making choices for themselves. A victory in that fight might mean that representatives opposed to women's rights won't remain in office much longer. That desired result might be the very thing that brings more progressive men and women into Congress. I feel certain that a majority of progressive representatives won't be single issue oriented but will take up issues that affect us all. And I have no doubt that Demopublicans will suffer the same fate as women-repressing Republicans.