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Hillary's historic statement at the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 that "women's rights are human rights" still echoes worldwide. As a lawyer, advocate, First Lady, and senator, Hillary has fought for issues important to women here at home and around the world for decades.
Today, despite the progress women have made, they earn only 77 cents for every dollar men earn -- and women of color earn even less. Hillary is leading the charge in the Senate to strengthen equal pay laws and end pay disparities between men and women. She introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act to strengthen the penalties associated with wage discrimination, to ensure that the federal government sets a higher standard, and to increase oversight of employers. Hillary has also worked to increase access to capital and other support for women-owned businesses.
When it comes to each woman's ability to make the most personal of life decisions, Hillary has stood firm as an advocate for a woman's right to choose. She has expanded access to family planning services, including for low-income women. She spoke out forcefully against the Supreme Court's April 2007 decision that -- for the first time in decades -- failed to recognize the importance of women's health.
Hillary has worked to empower women throughout the world, especially low-income women. She has advocated for access to microfinance programs that enable women to start their own businesses and spoken out strongly against the tragic practice of sex trafficking.
As president, Hillary will continue her lifelong fight to ensure that all Americans are treated with respect and dignity.
Ready to Lead
Hillary has fought the relentless and insidious efforts by far-right Republicans to limit the protections of Roe v Wade, while also working hard to expand access to family planning services.
Hillary has seen what happens when governments try to control a woman's reproductive health decisions. Whether it was Romania under a dictatorship saying you had to have children for the good of the state or China saying you had to have only one child for the good of the state, governments have dictated the most private and important decisions that we as individuals or families can make.
She has championed the Prevention First Act, which expands access to family planning services for low-income women, requires health insurance companies to cover contraception, and provides a dedicated funding stream for age-appropriate, medically accurate, comprehensive sex education.
As First Lady, she helped pass the Family and Medical Leave Act and helped found the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancies, which established and achieved a goal of reducing teen pregnancies by one-third between 1996 and 2005.
In partnership with Senator Patty Murray, Hillary waged a successful three-year battle to get the Food and Drug Administration to accept the overwhelming recommendation of the medical community and make Plan B (the "morning after" pill) available over the counter.
Hillary's work to empower low-income women has changed lives. She fought for the elimination of school fees, which prevent poor children in some countries from attending school, and for investments in health care and education for women and girls. And she helped found Vital Voices, a not-for-profit organization that continues to work to support women's leadership around the globe.
Hillary's historic statement at the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 that "women's rights are human rights" still echoes worldwide. As a lawyer, advocate, First Lady, and senator, Hillary has fought for issues important to women here at home and around the world for decades.
Today, despite the progress women have made, they earn only 77 cents for every dollar men earn -- and women of color earn even less. Hillary is leading the charge in the Senate to strengthen equal pay laws and end pay disparities between men and women. She introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act to strengthen the penalties associated with wage discrimination, to ensure that the federal government sets a higher standard, and to increase oversight of employers. Hillary has also worked to increase access to capital and other support for women-owned businesses.
When it comes to each woman's ability to make the most personal of life decisions, Hillary has stood firm as an advocate for a woman's right to choose. She has expanded access to family planning services, including for low-income women. She spoke out forcefully against the Supreme Court's April 2007 decision that -- for the first time in decades -- failed to recognize the importance of women's health.
Hillary has worked to empower women throughout the world, especially low-income women. She has advocated for access to microfinance programs that enable women to start their own businesses and spoken out strongly against the tragic practice of sex trafficking.
As president, Hillary will continue her lifelong fight to ensure that all Americans are treated with respect and dignity.
Ready to Lead
Hillary has fought the relentless and insidious efforts by far-right Republicans to limit the protections of Roe v Wade, while also working hard to expand access to family planning services.
Hillary has seen what happens when governments try to control a woman's reproductive health decisions. Whether it was Romania under a dictatorship saying you had to have children for the good of the state or China saying you had to have only one child for the good of the state, governments have dictated the most private and important decisions that we as individuals or families can make.
She has championed the Prevention First Act, which expands access to family planning services for low-income women, requires health insurance companies to cover contraception, and provides a dedicated funding stream for age-appropriate, medically accurate, comprehensive sex education.
As First Lady, she helped pass the Family and Medical Leave Act and helped found the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancies, which established and achieved a goal of reducing teen pregnancies by one-third between 1996 and 2005.
In partnership with Senator Patty Murray, Hillary waged a successful three-year battle to get the Food and Drug Administration to accept the overwhelming recommendation of the medical community and make Plan B (the "morning after" pill) available over the counter.
Hillary's work to empower low-income women has changed lives. She fought for the elimination of school fees, which prevent poor children in some countries from attending school, and for investments in health care and education for women and girls. And she helped found Vital Voices, a not-for-profit organization that continues to work to support women's leadership around the globe.
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Re: Gender Equality and Womens Issues
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 10:55 AMHillary has fought the relentless and insidious efforts by far-right Republicans to limit the protections of Roe v Wade, while also working hard to expand access to family planning services.
She has championed the Prevention First Act, which expands access to family planning services for low-income women, requires health insurance companies to cover contraception, and provides a dedicated funding stream for age-appropriate, medically accurate, comprehensive sex education.
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I would definately like to see a continuation of the process of prevention. While I am pro-choice I believe abortion as birth control is a poor resolution to a growing problem. Abortion in and of itself is harmful to the mother and can lead to long term problems. I believe we should continue to pass legislation to fund prevention and counseling services to women of child bearing age. Some may think this is too costly but it isn't nearly as costly as the alternative. -
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Re: Gender Equality and Womens Issues
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 12:37 PMi just got doe telling people in one of the groups that the real solution is to work to make abortion archaic by fighting poverty, gender inequality, bad sex education, and sexual repression. didn't go over as well as one might hope.
Can't possibly do anything good to go about it the wrong way. We can stop 99 percent of them from happening if we go about fixing the core contributing root problems, all of which do deserve our attention and which can be legislated some. But trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their own wombs is just sick and crazy. So i want to be a part of ending abortion, but we have to do that the right way, not the wrong way; ie creating a divisive wedge issue and proposing a non fix that just victimizes women.
This is one of i think three hillary planks that didn't have obama equivalents. so its interesting to see the differences in what they focus on.
If i was obama, i'd have womens issue plank out there.. another bone headed miss on the er...marketing department.
ugh.
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Reproductive Rights
April 2006
Why have a Republican House and Senate never even offered one vote proposing a
Constitutional Amendment banning abortion? If the issue were truly important to them
as anything but a wedge issue, they would have. The truth is that Republicans have
hidden from an honest up or down vote on abortion and will never allow one to take
place in the Congress. Instead, they will continue fooling well-intentioned voters who
feel strongly about abortion that they "feel their pain," when clearly they do not. Even if
the Supreme Court were to do the unlikely and return abortion to the states, it would
merely mean that the rich could travel to blue states for abortion, while the poor would
have less access to terminating their pregnancies.
The fact is that most Americans, including myself, are uncomfortable with abortions and
feel there are too many of them. At the same time, the vast majority of Americans
recognize that there are circumstances in which a woman and her doctor should be
allowed to make this most difficult decision without government intervention. To return
to the days when woman could self-abort without penalty, but to imprison doctors who
would help them, seems senseless, especially recognizing that a new abortion law
would likely become known as "The Abortions for the Rich-Only Bill."
I have a plan to reduce abortions by encouraging family planning, including abstinance
training, combined with a full economic and health care plan that would clearly alleviate
the number of abortions. Voters have a choice: Choose Republican rhetoric that will
never allow the issue to come to a vote or a real plan to reduce the number of abortions
with a program of economic justice. Factually, all the Republican rhetoric and phony
issues surrounding abortion have never directly addressed the legality of abortion and
have had no or negilible impact on the number of abortions.
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abstainance training? it all sounds good other than that. Sexual repression is part of the problem, not part of the cure.
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Re: Gender Equality and Womens Issues
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 1:25 PMI don't agree with abstinance training. I do agree with prevention training.
I am not entirely sure how many people are aware that it was illegal not only to take birth control but also to disseminate information about birth control methods before 1920 in the US. Margaret Sanger was the woman who heralded this cause and even spent time in prison before she was finally successful in eliminating this archaic law. Before this point in time women faced prosecution and persecution if they attempted to control births.
We have come a long way since 1920. There are wide and varied solutions th at exist to prevent teen pregnancy and unwanted pregnancy at any age. I believe keeping this information out of schools based on some idea that there is something inherently wrong with sex or sexuality is a sign of religion interfering where it shouldn't be. If parents feel it is morally necessary for their child to remain abstinant that is something they need to address at home. I also feel that parents need to take a more active role. I have discussed sexual relations and birth control with my duaghter since she was about 12 years old. They need to be prepared for what is facing them in the real world.
I will be honest and admit that I encourage my 15 year old daughter to remain abstinant. As I have explained to her it is not that there is anything inherently wrong with sexual desire. It is simply that I feel she is too emotionally young to deal with the consequences of engaging in such action emotionally. I am also very active in my daughter's activities and what she is and is not allowed to do. I realize children can sneak around and do things they shouldn't but I believe this is much less likely if a parent is present on a regular basis.
This leads me to my next issue.
It is no longer possible for many families to have a stay at home parent. It takes the income of both parents just to get by. It has only been recently that I have been able to cut my work hours down to part-time as my husband can afford to take care of the rest. That may not remain the case if we don't do something about our sinking economy. -
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Re: Gender Equality and Womens Issues
Sat, May 17, 2008 - 12:56 PMi think that its good to encourage her to do that but silly to think you can keep a freeze for much longer.
On the other hand, i hit puberty at eight, and my take as a child was that i should have been allowed to have sex
and that it was unfair of anybody to stop me, bully me, shame me, or try to control me over it.
I still agree in general, and thats why sex education and safe sex are more important answers.
Certainly from a social engineering perspective things are mostly better if they wait longer. On the other hand, sexual repression
is also a contributing factor to a lot of problems also.
I think we should get over it and let humans have their sexuality; but make it safe and sane and not ultrahidden and thus more likely
to go wrong.
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well, this is a thing to think about.
i can dig deeper for ten pages all by myself. that may shoot myself in the foot AND waste my time by overwhelming people or giving them
the idea that i mean to go solo.
So what should i do?
Things reverse from my leadership to yours. The ball is in your court now, not mine.
the problem is, do you get the game or must i play alone still to demonstrate it?
This is complicated.
I have my own good answers for many of these issues. But merely standing on a soapbox doesn't make a great invitation to chat.
So heres me, with a shot in the arm which is a dead end if more people can't embrace this turn and run with it.
Heres one conversation which can mean almost nothing and fade into history, or, which can start the revolution if you will let it.
well, so what can i say? Here i am, talking to myself. I get used it its most of what i end up doing. thoughts drift to what i could do.
I could explore the good and bad in both platforms. I could run google searches to link to more info per plank. I could more fully introduce
other peoples ideas, such as kucinich, gravel, ron paul, ralph nader, and etc.
I could go to yahoo and post questions to their q and a. not that they ever give good answers to high order questions.
I could i could could but what should i do to be sincere here?
how can i serve you all in making this real?
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