I think she is great. I have always thought she is a great woman. She wants to defend women and return rights and esteem to them. There isn't anything wrong with that and if she is passionate about that issue, then we all should be grateful. The men that love women should be grateful, too. Men who love women should want their wives, girlfriends, fiancee, daughters and grand daughters to be held in esteem by granting them the right to carry out their own decisions and having financial equity to garner a successful life and retirement.
When women were demanding equal right before they were burning bras and holding demonstrations. They mattered. Their vote mattered. Women need a strong and passionate leader that inspires them and moves them to action. Hillary Clinton has been passionate about women and children most, if not all, her professional life. I trust her to bring women to the same camp as she and not alienate them. Women need to feel passionate again rather than accepting their second class citizenship the Republicans want to assign them.
August 27, 2015
By Samantha Lachman
...At a campaign event in (click here) Cleveland, Clinton criticized former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. She pointed out that Rubio said he wouldn't support exceptions to an abortion ban for victims of rape and incest, that Bush said Planned Parenthood should be defunded and that Kasich banned state funds from going toward rape crisis centers because they sometimes refer women to abortion clinics.
"Now extreme views on women, we expect that from some of the terrorist groups, we expect that from people who don't want to live in the modern world, but it's a little hard to take coming from Republicans who want to be the president of the United States," she said. "Yet they espouse out-of-date, out-of-touch policies. They are dead wrong for 21st-century America. We are going forward; we are not going back."
She added that she would like Republicans to recognize "the mom who caught her breast cancer early because she was able to get a screening for cancer or the teenager who didn't get pregnant because she has access to contraception."
Republicans immediately seized on Clinton's remarks, suggesting that they were inappropriate.
“For Hillary Clinton to equate her political opponents to terrorists is a new low for her flailing campaign. She should apologize immediately for her inflammatory rhetoric,” Republican National Committee Press Secretary Allison Moore said in a statement....
One of the reasons Republicans feel comfortable in removing federal support for women's health clinics is because they have witnessed some Planned Parenthood clinics earning money in supplying products such as fetal tissue. So, when they make their defunding rants as if a radical idea, they are simply throwing Planned Parenthood clinics into the world of Private Non-Profits or at least they believe so.
It is convenient for Republicans to appear to remove funding from Planned Parenthood as if it is going to destroy any clinic performing abortions. That isn't why they are stating that. They know there is a product within the clinics that can create an income so they don't need government funding. That is all it is. The clinics will continue to exist and practice and provide health care for women, but, it will be through private funding as well as sales of their products. Private non-profits such as Bloomberg Family Foundation will continue to keep women health clinics open.
Just a word more. Republicans want to change Medicare and Social Security while they deny women laws that insure their pay equity. The Republicans want to make many, many changes to entitlements. The entitlements our retired rely on are always under attack by Republicans. Yet, Republicans won't do anything about the working poor or improving the minimum wage.
I find it very interesting that Democrats want to uphold the entitlements with fairly simple adjustments to extend their viability for a significant period of time into the future. The Democrats realize retirement with SSI and Medicare at the center of quality of life means Americans have to earn more in their working years to have a comfortable retirement. It is the Democrats that see the 'real world' and not a fantasy of million-billionaires.
When women were demanding equal right before they were burning bras and holding demonstrations. They mattered. Their vote mattered. Women need a strong and passionate leader that inspires them and moves them to action. Hillary Clinton has been passionate about women and children most, if not all, her professional life. I trust her to bring women to the same camp as she and not alienate them. Women need to feel passionate again rather than accepting their second class citizenship the Republicans want to assign them.
August 27, 2015
By Samantha Lachman
...At a campaign event in (click here) Cleveland, Clinton criticized former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. She pointed out that Rubio said he wouldn't support exceptions to an abortion ban for victims of rape and incest, that Bush said Planned Parenthood should be defunded and that Kasich banned state funds from going toward rape crisis centers because they sometimes refer women to abortion clinics.
"Now extreme views on women, we expect that from some of the terrorist groups, we expect that from people who don't want to live in the modern world, but it's a little hard to take coming from Republicans who want to be the president of the United States," she said. "Yet they espouse out-of-date, out-of-touch policies. They are dead wrong for 21st-century America. We are going forward; we are not going back."
She added that she would like Republicans to recognize "the mom who caught her breast cancer early because she was able to get a screening for cancer or the teenager who didn't get pregnant because she has access to contraception."
Republicans immediately seized on Clinton's remarks, suggesting that they were inappropriate.
“For Hillary Clinton to equate her political opponents to terrorists is a new low for her flailing campaign. She should apologize immediately for her inflammatory rhetoric,” Republican National Committee Press Secretary Allison Moore said in a statement....
One of the reasons Republicans feel comfortable in removing federal support for women's health clinics is because they have witnessed some Planned Parenthood clinics earning money in supplying products such as fetal tissue. So, when they make their defunding rants as if a radical idea, they are simply throwing Planned Parenthood clinics into the world of Private Non-Profits or at least they believe so.
It is convenient for Republicans to appear to remove funding from Planned Parenthood as if it is going to destroy any clinic performing abortions. That isn't why they are stating that. They know there is a product within the clinics that can create an income so they don't need government funding. That is all it is. The clinics will continue to exist and practice and provide health care for women, but, it will be through private funding as well as sales of their products. Private non-profits such as Bloomberg Family Foundation will continue to keep women health clinics open.
Just a word more. Republicans want to change Medicare and Social Security while they deny women laws that insure their pay equity. The Republicans want to make many, many changes to entitlements. The entitlements our retired rely on are always under attack by Republicans. Yet, Republicans won't do anything about the working poor or improving the minimum wage.
I find it very interesting that Democrats want to uphold the entitlements with fairly simple adjustments to extend their viability for a significant period of time into the future. The Democrats realize retirement with SSI and Medicare at the center of quality of life means Americans have to earn more in their working years to have a comfortable retirement. It is the Democrats that see the 'real world' and not a fantasy of million-billionaires.
