Can I just say again how little I was offended by the comments Hilary Rosen made about Ann Romney?
That woman has never had to deal with the economic circumstances that make some of us feel like we're being crushed under the weight of our responsibilities. She has never had to think about merely having children as an economic decision. There was never the deep, nagging fear that if you do decide to have children that you won't be able to provide for them. The feeling I get when I think I can't have children, because I won't be able to give them as good a life as I had growing up. This is a truth for many women, and many couples out there today, who would love to have children but feel as though they are financially suffocating already.
How cruel is it to say you have struggled while promoting policies that would make it harder for working women to obtain health care for themselves and their children, without which women with similar conditions to Mrs. Romney's would risk bankruptcy or even death? While advocating the reversal of policies that provide income assistance and childcare for working mothers around the country? This to me seems to be the ultimate in hypocrisy - attacking a woman who wants to continue programs that enable millions of children to go to bed with full stomachs, simply because she had the audacity to mention that Mrs. Romney can't relate to them?
If she wants to be taken seriously, she should spend more time promoting the stories of real women she's met on the road, and the struggles she sees in their lives. She is a brave survivor of serious illnesses, for which she deserves some credit - but some are not so lucky. She should become an advocate for those less fortunate, and not belittle those who see her struggles as facile compared to those of women who lack the resources to fight those same battles.
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