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Ed Schultz opened his show on MSNBC this Thursday evening with a montage of news stories showing how Republicans celebrated International Women's Day -- with more of their war on women.

From TPM -- Female Dem Senators Call On Boehner To Drop Birth Control Bill:

All twelve female Democratic senators wrote a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Thursday asking him to halt movement on House legislation aimed at rolling back the Obama administration's contraception mandate.

The letter, obtained by the Washington Post's Greg Sargent, reflects an effort to force House Republicans to publicly concede defeat in the contraception wars -- the battle was effectively over when the Blunt amendment was struck down in the Senate last week.

From Video Cafe earlier today -- Georgia Women Senators Walk Out, Protesting 'War On Women'.

From Think Progress -- Republican Lawmaker Now Supports Obama, Says GOP Presidential Candidates ‘Would Take Women Back Decades’:

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About a thousand women turned out to march on International Women's Day Tuesday in Cairo to demand "fair and equal opportunity for all Egyptian citizens -- beyond gender, religion or class."

The activists in Egypt, who had called for a "Million Woman March," were disappointed when some men chanting anti-feminist slogans caused the rally to degenerate into a shouting match.

"Men are men and women are women and that will never change and go home, that's where you belong," was one of the chants heard at the march.

"As the women stood there and they chanted, suddenly this group of young men started chanting things, that women should go home, that they should stay in the home and the proof of that is that God didn't make any female prophets," NBC's Anne Thompson reported from Cairo Tuesday.

In a Facebook post, organizers of the March said they were not after minority rights.

"We are not after symbolic political representation," they said.

"The bodies of women, so often used as ideological battlegrounds, have withstood all kinds of police violence, from tear gas to live bullets. The real battleground did not differentiate between women and men."

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