托福阅读机经背景：全美运动向女性宣战.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料 托福阅读机经背景：全美运动向女性宣战   备战 托福 考试的人必须关注美国的“举动”，有利于更好的进入美国的场景。最近全美国掀起一场运动：向女性宣战。到底是怎么回事呢，以下文章：考托在美国：全美运动向女性宣战。  Spring came early to most of the 50 states this year─and with it, at least in the political fields, the usual crop of mixed truths, untruths, and wildly growing falsehoods. Lets yank up one of those weeds for a little inspection: the idea that a national war on women is afoot.Its an ideological whopper that demands more scrutiny than it has so far gotten, because underneath it are solid rocks of myth concerning what are called the social issues. Lets turn over a few of these to see what facts they hide.  Myth No. 1: The war on women consists of tyrannical men arrayed against oppressed but pluckily united women.In the first place, womankind, bless her fickle heart, is not exactly united on…anything.  Public opinion polls show women to be roughly evenly divided on the question of abortion. This same diversity of opinion was also manifest in the arguments over the proposed new federal mandate forcing employers to pay for birth control, including abortifacients.Over 20,000 women, from all walks of life, signed an open letter to President Barack Obama and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius objecting to the federal mandate. Co-written by lawyers Helen Alvare and Kim Daniels, that letter alone answered the taunting question of supporters of the measure, Where are the women? The answer: in impressive numbers on the opposite side of the dispute.Other leaders hailing from the XX side of the chromosome gap also took public stands against the mandate, including politicians, pundits, professors, editors and authors who dont seem to have gotten the message that they are victims in all this. They considered the unexpected federal fiat a violation of religious liberty and individual conscience, but they didnt think these wrongs had anything to do with themselves qua women. Many men shared their view.