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“The Romney camp is happily fanning the flames of the “mommy wars” — the way society pits working moms against stay-at-homes moms by accusing each of never being good enough — to twist Hilary Rosen’s stupid statement into a dig at Ann’s “choice,” as she put it. Of course, this has become a kerfluffle precisely because the GOP knows it has taken a hit with women after all their birth control nuttiness, abortion banning and slut-calling and it’s grabbing for straws. As Hilary Rosen herself wrote in a Huffington Post blog last night, “If they want to attack me and distract the public’s attention away from their nominee’s woeful record, it just demonstrates how much they just don’t get it.”

This Ann Romney victimhood tale of woe is just a sideshow. Instead of these real or perceived grenade launched yesterday into the mommy wars, let’s focus our attention on the more salient issues that effect working women. Pay equity. Living wages. Affordable childcare. Maternity leave. Paternity leave. Access to birth control. Planning pregnancy.”