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deminks

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Sun Jun 3, 2012, 01:35 PM Jun 2012

Romney adviser dismisses women’s issues as ‘shiny objects [View all]

Mitt Romney’s senior campaign adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, on Sunday said that social issues important to women, like contraception coverage and abortion rights, were “shiny objects” that were being used to distract voters.

David Plouffe, one of President Barack Obama’s top aides, last week told New York Magazine that Democrats needed to be clear about what a Romney presidency would mean for women’s rights and other social issues.

“Potentially abortion will be criminalized,” Plouffe said.”Women will be denied contraceptive services. He’s far right on immigration. He supports efforts to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/03/romney-adviser-dismisses-womens-issues-as-shiny-objects/

The GOP War on Women continues

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