Romney implies women aren't concerned about access to birth control

4.1.12 An audience member at a town hall meeting in Middleton, Wisconsin, was given the opportunity to ask a question of Mitt Romney. Before asking his question, he stated that the Obama administration and the press are doing their best to "distract voters from issues like jobs, from debt, from 'Obamacare' by coming up with 'false issues'" such as a "war on women" and a "war on immigrants." He then asked Romney how he would persuade "women, hispanics, etcetera" that things such as "more jobs, less debt and less government" are women's issues. Romney responded by saying, "I wish Ann were here, my wife were here, for a lot of reasons I wish she were here." (Hah, hah, hah) "But I wish she were here to answer that question in particular, because she says that she's going across the country and talking with women and what they're talking about is the debt... and that's what they're talking about."

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