Take, for instance, the morning after pill. Nobody, not Democrats or Republicans, was willing to go to bat for the average woman to get access to this drug.

Now that it is becoming clear through the secret polling the parties are doing, that the white men who rule this nation are so out of touch (not to mention contemptuous of) with the majority of American women's thinking about their reproductive rights being auctioned off one by one to appease the extremely vocal minority of religious right voters, they decide to "silently approve" the over the counter sale during the quiet days of summer in an election year.

Are most Americans opposed to women having control over their own bodies? Opposed to women, and women alone having the right to make the medical decisions that will effect them and them alone? Are most Americans in favor of depriving women of their marital rights (as occurred with the Congressional intervention to "save Terry Schiavo") when they don't like the decision that is being made, and allowing the government to intervene to overturn that decision? Are most Americans opposed to women having complete, free access to birth control? Are most Americans opposed to any and all abortion, under any and all circumstances?

See, the problem is, the political establishment is guilty as charged of allowing/instigating all of the above, in an effort to appease the social and religious conservatives of BOTH parties. Women be damned.

Keep voting Democrat and Republican, ladies. Look where it has gotten you so far. "The Handmaid's Tale" is already your electoral reality.