“All issues are women’s issues.  We are half of this great nation,” said Carly Fiorina to enthusiastic applause and a standing ovation at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference.

“I accept and respect that not all women agree with me, “ she said, “what I’m not prepared to accept is that we are waging war on women, just because we know that abortion at five months is inhumane to both mother and child.”

For Democrats to say Republicans are waging a war on women just because they want to restrict access to abortion and birth control is an insult to women, Fiorina added.

This piece isn’t about Fiorina, but it’s interesting to make note of her impressive career, especially the fact that she became the first female officer of AT&T’s male-dominated Network Systems Division at 35 years of age.

While I imagine she is no longer concerned about gender disadvantages in her own future, she is surely aware that those disadvantages still persist for other women, and often speaks of the role of women from the conservative viewpoint.  In her view, “it is liberals who believe they know what is good for you.”

Democrats focus on abortion and birth control to distract from the real issues facing women where they have utterly failed – jobs, pay, the economy and, yes, health insurance.

Remember Sandra Fluke’s 15-minutes of fame two years ago when she sorrowfully told a House committee that 40 percent of female students at Georgetown Law were struggling financially because contraception can cost over $3,000?  Seizing on her message, liberals chose to make her the party’s poster woman and she was invited to speak at the Democratic National Convention in September 2012.

“During this campaign, we’ve heard about the two profoundly different futures that could await women, and how one of those futures (Romney-Ryan) looks like an offensive relic of our past, “she said.  She went on to speak of pregnant women dying of preventable deaths in emergency rooms,  invasive ultrasounds and a GOP America where men decide what rape is and who deserves domestic violence help.  How absurd.  Of course she followed with her view of women in America with a messianic Obama administration.

As recent as President Obama’s State-of-the-Union Address, he again advanced  the Democrat’s narrative that women are in a victim class in need of solutions and protection that only big government can provide.

Two years ago, the Obama administration depicted its view of women on a website featuring “The Life of Julia,” a composite of a typical woman’s life from three through 67 years of age; enjoying Obama’s welfare granny state programs at various points of her life.  Democrats clearly want to see women as dependent on the government.  What an insult!

Admittedly, there have been Republicans who have made foolish remarks, including candidate Todd Akins’ bazaar explanation of rape and Gov. Mike Huckabee’s recent remark about women’s libidos.  But liberals too, including Nancy Pelosi, have matched them with hair-brained statements. And need I surface the names Anthony Weiner and Robert Filner?

Desperate Democrats continue to dishonestly declare Republicans are waging a war on women, but it’s beginning to backfire.  Many women manage their household finances and many of them are working outside the home if they are fortunate enough to have a job.

Young women currently seeking minimum wage jobs could actually be hurt if a minimum wage hike is approved as unemployment among 18-19 year-old women is already at 19.1 per cent. Those 20-24 years of age, including recent grads, face a 10.3 percent unemployment.  And now, if the president gets his way with overtime pay, women in managerial positions will lose advancement opportunities.  It’s another “hey, let’s try this” scheme from the Obamanomics Manual.

Women involved in making health care insurance decisions while managing the household budget are beginning to see how ObamaCare is hurting them.  Some women are paying higher premiums with higher deductibles in order to pay for the subsidies of others.  And others are finding their hours cut as companies deal with ObamaCare.

I find it ironic that the very person who women seem to think is fighting for them – President Obama – thinks of them more as his subjects.  And, a woman – Kathleen Sebelius – is complicit in promoting ObamaCare.

Writer Mary Kate Cary calls the Democrat’s claim of a Republican “war on women” as “all frosting, no cupcake,” and quoted Gertrude Stein, “there is no there there.”  To that I say, hear, hear.

 

“When people say we should raise the minimum wage, I worry abut what that does to job creation.” – Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder, speaking to the American Enterprise Institute.