WomenHealth Execs Applaud Biden’s Executive Order on Women’s Health (3/19/2024)Anti-abortion extremists in the US are waging a holy war against women (2/24/2024)Why does the Barbie movie have Republicans in such a tizzy? (7/20/2023)From Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin, authoritarians celebrate machismo, denigrate the troublesome women who defy them, and appoint male-dominated governments to restore the country's (alleged) lost glory. Plenty of women espouse anti-democratic attitudes, but removing women from power and sending them back to the domestic sphere is part of the dictator's playbook. The Right to be Elected: Jennifer M. Piscopo and Shauna L. Shames Sadly, the Trump administration’s disregard for maternal and child health is not limited to its foreign-aid policies. Unlike many other countries, the US has actually experienced an increase in maternal deaths in recent years, and now has the highest rate of maternal mortality among developed countries. Nevertheless, Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps to bar federal- and state-level funding for Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides vital health-care services to millions of pregnant women and mothers. Anne-Marie Slaughter , Elizabeth Radin (3/19/2019) The Supreme Court knows who is a woman and who isn’t. Women are those people the government gets to force to bear children against their will. Women are those people who can’t make their own decisions about their own lives. Women are those people whose bodies belong to the state. Ophelia Benson Hear Me Roar (with Nina Burleigh), Notes on the Post-Patriarchy by Greg Olear (8/5/2022)
According to a UN report from 2014 surveying 185 countries and territories, only two did not guarantee any paid maternity leave; Papua New Guinea and the United States. The United States is also one of only a handful of countries that don”t guarantee their workers any paid time off for illness – others include Angola, India and Liberia.
Republican attack on Women's Rights. Women DO have a choice. Defeat Republicans or lose rights.
Republicans have a right to practice their religion, but not to impose it on anyone else.
Keep religion out of medical practice.
Small government Republicans think they can legislate women's most sensitive personal decisions instead of trusting them to make their own most informed choice. Hypocrisy is on full display as Republicans advocate for the unborn, but find that paying for basic needs for survival like food, healthcare, or education are too expensive. They don´t seem to care much for the living, only the unborn. Their treatment of migrants and children at the border is proof of their disregard of human rights. So is torture. Bear in mind that the Evangelicals, the Catholic Church, and the Republican warriors in the culture war are a serious danger to democracy, a motivator of violence, and insofar as they are unwilling to acknowledge climate damage and overpopulation they are a danger to the habitability of the planet. Republicans belief in 'small government' allows imposing their religious beliefs on women and the rest of us. Even if it means apocalypse. After all, they are expecting it, it validates their deepest beliefs, and, being climate deniers, they may accomplish it.
Republicans claim to value liberty, but won't allow choice if it is at odds with their ideology. If they really valued liberty, they would stay out of individual personal medical decisions of all kinds. Instead they would repeal the ACA with no replacement throwing 32 million off healthcare. Republicans
don't believe in family planning, birth control, a women's right to choose, gay marriage, sex education, or
other population limiting policy.They
are, in many ways, like the Taliban. They are sometimes violent about it. Human population has grown
beyond earth's sustainability, the kids will inherit a hostile planet.
But Republicans
do not acknowledge a problem, oppose a women's right to choose, family planning, reproductive rights or even sex education.
Yes, we’ve become Gilead. (4/25/2022)What We See in the Shameful Trends on U.S. Maternal Health (11/21/2021) NYTTrump advisory board member: Women should strive to be “handmaidens,” stay out of the workplace (11/18/2019)The Philosopher of #MeToo: Kate Manne and the fight against misogyny. (11/13/2019)
Committee on CEDAW (6/2021) Gender and Education Association Musings of an Inappropriate Woman Wom*n’s Department of the University of Melbourne Student Union
Republican War on Women
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So it’s true: Republicans really do hate women (10/5/2018)The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America (8/4/2018)U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials (7/9/2018)Trump’s Judicial Nominees Are Bad for Women (12/7/2017)Trump on Hot Mic: ‘When You’re a Star … You Can Do Anything’ to Women (10/7/2016)This photo sums up Trump’s assault on women’s rights (1/24/2017)Trump responds to Megyn Kelly's questions on misogyny – with more misogyny (8/6/2015)
The bible is anti-woman, blaming women for sin, demanding subservience, mandating a slave/master relationship to men, and demonstrating contempt and lack of compassion: "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." Gen. 3:16
“Do you have any idea what year it is? Did you fall down, hit your head, and think you woke up in the 1950s or the 1890s? Should we call for a doctor? Because I simply cannot believe that in the year 2015, the United States Senate would be spending its time trying to defund women’s health care centers. You know, on second thought, maybe I shouldn’t be that surprised. The Republicans have had a plan for years to strip away women’s rights to make choices over our own bodies. Just look at the recent facts.” Elizabeth Warren (8/5/2015)
The Convention to End All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international bill of rights for women that has set the standard achieving equality between men and women around the world. One hundred eighty six countries have ratified CEDAW since the United Nations' General Assembly approved it on December 18, 1979. Of all the UN treaties, only the Convention on the Rights of the Child boasts more signatories. Seven member-states of the United Nations have yet to ratify it: Iran, Nauru, Palau, Somalia, Sudan, Tonga - and the United States. This makes the US the only industrialized democracy in the world that has not ratified CEDAW. Why? Why hasn’t the US ratified CEDAW? What impact would CEDAW has in the US? While few Americans have even heard of this treaty, CEDAW has been on the American political agenda for the past thirty years. President Carter signed it in 1980 and since then Senate has held hearings on CEDAW ratification five times - in 1988, 1990, 1994, 2000 and 2010. Each time senators have failed to bring the ratification question to a vote on the Senate floor. The failure to ratify CEDAW surprises those who assume that the United States is a world leader when it comes to women’s rights." Lisa Baldez 2011. (Download her paper.)
"I did try and f*ck her. She was married. And I moved on her very heavily" Donald Trump
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