Stephan:   At a time when our world is falling apart and, maybe, because we are in such a time our Presidential contest instead of debating climate change, sea rise, drought, financial collapse, insane wars from military to marijuana, the great issues of our day, has instead expended all its energy in a struggle over suppressing and controlling the sexuality and bodies of women. From an historian's point of view this is one of the most extraordinary public spectacles in the American narrative.