Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumClinton's 1st speech as nominee will be at Planned Parenthood, No center pivot here
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Hillary is a candidate who carries with her the stories of women she has met all across the globe. Our successes and struggles, our joy and heartbreak. And she doesnt see us as a special interest group, but as half the worlds population. Of which she is a part.....
No other candidate in this election has articulated so clearly a vision of a world in which women are given, must be given, every opportunity to participate, fully and on our own terms.
No one else would make Planned Parenthood their first port of call.
This is what a feminist presidential candidate looks like.
http://bluenationreview.com/hillary-speech-planned-parenthood/
DemonGoddess
(5,123 posts)You know, given the feminist aspects of her speech Tuesday, I wasn't exactly expecting much of a swing to center. Sure, she'll do it a little bit because she has to, but I don't think she will on this part.
TwilightZone
(28,833 posts)where she is on the scale in the first place.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)shadowandblossom
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Her Sister
(6,444 posts)This is a dead serious issue. We cannot lose them. We cannot go back! We cannot lose this fight!
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,572 posts)Perhaps it's my age and my gray hair, but I don't see what's so left-wing about Planned Parenthood. I'm old enough to remember a time when trying to give poor women access to reproductive and obstetric care was a bi-partisan matter, not a belief solely confined to Democrats and progressive.
Of course, that was before Republican opportunists invited in the Religious Right and turned the GOP into a party of social reactionaries with a public health policy "worthy" of the most squalid right-wing oligarchical dictatorships of the first half of the last century.
For the life of me I STILL don't understand why thoughtful men and women who love babies and their own children would allow obscuritan and indifferent Republican politicians to make decisions about public health.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)But times are different. States are rapidly eroding this right, from govts that were elected by majority. I agree it shouldn't be exclusively left wing, but there you have it. It has to be addressed strongly.
Hekate
(94,726 posts)...PP has had a long history of violence perpetrated against it. As far as I can tell that had settled down a lot when I was a kid in the 1950s-1960s, but there must have been a lot of ugliness simmering just under the surface of our apparent progress.
The opposition to abortion, contraception, and the whole gamut of women's reproductive health choices has never been about protecting women and children and has always been about sex, from Margaret Sanger's time until now. Bad, dirty, unauthorized sex. For women who have unauthorized sex, the results should always be considered their just punishment.
I know supporting PP used to be bipartisan, but somewhere along the way the GOP made some extremely cynical choices, and choosing to exploit and amplify a whole host of social issues among those frightened of change was certainly right up there on the cynicism scale.
tanyev
(44,530 posts)tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,833 posts)This is an important issue and I'm glad to see that she's taking it on.
ismnotwasm
(42,462 posts)Exactly --none of that "agree to disagree" horseshit.
sarae
(3,284 posts)niyad
(120,028 posts)her commitment to women's and children's rights is something that many people seem to forget.
wysi
(1,514 posts)Right out of the gate. Awesome.
Princess Turandot
(4,824 posts)DemonGoddess
(5,123 posts)LOVED it!