Your Say: For Romney, uphill battle for female vote?

From readers on Facebook:

Romney and the GOP deserve to lose the women's vote. They have made it very clear that they have no respect for women's rights of conscience and religious freedom. They want to impose on all women the malicious medieval misogynist morality pushed by the Catholic bishops (but not by most Catholics) and the televangelists.

Edd Doerr

Mitt Romney's campaign waffled on whether he would have signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. It seems to me he thinks of women as second-class citizens who should get less pay.

Dorothy Herman

How are dependence on food stamps and free birth control a path to strength and "independence"? The Democrats should be ashamed of themselves.

Austin Keenan

Obama and the left are fabricating a "war on women" in order to stir up emotions. Although we live in the most liberated country in the world, where 99% of sexually active American females ages 15 to 44 have used birth control, and 1.2 million abortions occur annually, Democrats claim Republicans are waging a war on women and keeping them from accessing these services.

Milt Cross

I'm so tired of the government thinking women are stupid enough to fall for President Obama's garbage. I'm a woman who is more concerned about the state of our economy and the security of our nation and our future.

Tracy Yeoman

As a country, health insurance companies spend more money on women. Women have longer life spans than men. These are facts. Can someone tell me how women are getting the short end of the stick here?

Joseph MacLean

What would Ann Romney say to a woman who just turned 26, can no longer stay on her parents' health insurance, and has MS? Her employer says she has to wait a year to get insurance and she is uninsurable on the individual market. What then? Health issues are women's issues.

Karen McMullen

Letter to the editor:

Why do I keep hearing that Mitt Romney has a "gender problem" with women? Wouldn't that mean Obama has a "gender problem" with men? If I were running against another man, and I wasn't getting over 50% of the male vote, I would be embarrassed. Obama caters to the female vote, hoping they'll still buy the hope and change garbage. If Romney has a problem with single females, doesn't Obama have a quandary with married females? As a 56 year old, I've never been called by a pollster and asked who I was voting for.

Scott Durham; Haddonfield, N.J.