Women, their reproductive decisions and the coming election

This coming election will certainly be decided by several groups including Hispanics and women.
These groups decided the election in 2008, and women switched their vote in 2010 during the mid-term elections.
This November there will be two clear options in terms of how they view women.
President Obama’s first legislation was the equal pay for equal work, or, as the law is called, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The Republican Party voted against this legislation because they say that this will only help trial lawyers. When Mitt Romney was recently asked in a phone conference if he supported his camp did not have an answer.
During the whole Republican primary the candidates out gunned each other on how much they would control women's sexual and reproductive decisions. Republican Governors across country together with their state assemblies and senates passed all kinds of restrictions and outrageous legislations deciding on women reproductive systems.
Republicans are saying that what women really care about is just the economy, and that President Obama is guilty for having women displaced in the workforce. They seemed to have amnesia because the financial collapse happened under the Bush Administration.
Women, in most cases, are involved with the family's health care decisions.
Republicans are trying to bring down a legislation that would cover more people, with pre-conditions, and college students who receive coverage under their parent’s health coverage.
I was talking to a relative that I have in the UK, and has lived there since 1958, about all these issues, and she could not believe that we are still arguing about reproductive and contraception issues in 2012. She is 88 years and looks at these trivial things as part of the past. These things have been settled in the 60’s and 70’s. How long more are we going to talk about sex? We have a real unemployment close to 20% and we think that what is important is that people be straight. We have people sleeping under bridges or in cardboards, and we still want to argue if the pill should be included in the health care bill. The rest of the world is laughing at us.