Every day I read about another attack on women's health and reproductive rights which unfortunately reminds me of a famous painting, "Susanna and the Elders". In 1610, a 17 year old Italian girl, Artemisia Gentileschi, painted the bible tale of Susanna, a virtuous young woman sexually stalked and harassed by the elders of her community.

In Botticelli’s 14th century painting, “The Birth of Venus”,  the Goddess is emerging from the sea with the winds blowing her to shore.  But this isn’t the fresh female's fate today.  There are blowhards in suits now blustering her rights away.  Are the pontificating politicians so afraid of the liberated female they must claim control of her body?

There is an American role-reversal going on.  “Women the new breadwinners” said a 2012 USA TODAY analysis of Census Bureau data, while a recent Nielsen study reported that women will control two-thirds of the consumer wealth in the U.S. over the next decade. There are even more women voters now! Wow. The Feminine is emerging as a power to be reckoned with.  But if you’re in doubt, you’re right!