Cokie Roberts, etc. / War on Women

If anyone made it to any of the recent events - please post about it.

The HT's write up about Cokie Roberts was that she was pushing for compromise.

What can happen there - is that you get each side going farther from the middle so they can 'compromise' back to their original intention. Like Used car salesmen - or probably a lot of other negotiable situations.

Most of us are aware that the Republicans have been going way out from normal (and from equality) - and insisting we follow them. That, of course, is not going to happen.

Compromise and consensus only work when people are trying to be reasonable to begin with - and share some common goals.
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From NUVO - on the (United against the) War on Women Rally at the Statehouse in Indianapolis:

Despite threatening weather, over 100 protestors gathered in support of women's health and equal pay on the South Lawn of the Statehouse. This rally coincided with 49 others across every state. 

Organizers wrote, before the rally:
"From Indiana Rep. Bob Morris attacking the Girl Scouts and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell advocating for transvaginal probes, to bills that restrict birth control, enact "personhood" laws, and intrude into the relationship between a woman and her physician, it's clear that lawmakers — predominantly male — have gone too far in their efforts to restrict women's rights and choices." 

Speakers at the Indiana We Are Women rally included John Gregg, Democratic candidate for governor of Indiana; Betty Cockrum, president and CEO, Planned Parenthood of Indiana; Heather Maddox, communications director of the 51% Club; Rev. Stephen Sinclair, Unitarian Universalist Church of Indianapolis; Dr. Terri Jett, chair, Department of Political Science, Butler University; Vi Simpson, Indiana State Senator (D); and Jean Breaux, Indiana State Senator (D).

Standing next to Gregg in one of the photos is our own Shelly Yoder .