Women could come flying off the bench in 2012 over health issues
(NEWSER) - Forget the mama grizzlies. In 2012, Hell may hath no fury like a woman voter scorned by the right, reports Politico . Between Rick Santorum's call for states to be able to ban birth control, Komen's defunding of Planned Parenthood , Catholic bishops' contraception brouhaha , a Santorum backer who defined birth control as a "Bayer aspirin" between "the gals'" knees, and various states instituting personhood laws or mandating vaginal probes for women seeking abortion , this election cycle suddenly has the potential to clear the women's rights' benches. “If women feel they are being targeted again, that women’s health is on the line—that’s not an argument you want to make in an election year,” says one expert. More»
