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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is the fuss? Women's rights are human rights... once and for all.
"Women's Rights Are Human Rights" is a term used in the women's rights movement and is the name of a speech given by Hillary Rodham Clinton, at the time the First Lady of the United States, on September 5, 1995, at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
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I would like to see one Democrat stand up and tell me this is wrong. Our right to speak freely and our right to be heard. Our Right, Our Bodies and Our Voice. Sing it sisters.
We are not wedge issues, we are giving feeling human beings that birthed you and loved you and raised you.
Hell we birthed this entire Nation!
We women are the revolution, do not ever forget that.
It's really that simple.
sheshe2
(83,887 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)sheshe2
(83,887 posts)We are the movement. We are the revolution. Past time when old men need to step back and let our voices be heard. It is our time.
brewens
(13,620 posts)be pro choice, and say what needs to be said. Don't be chickenshit because it will make right-wingers mad. Especially when it should make perfect sense to a lot of people, especially fiscal conservatives.
Safe, free, and easily available abortions save us a shit ton of money! If some young woman, even underage finds herself in trouble, has nothing going for her, wants nothing to do with the guy that got her pregnant, fix it! Get rid of it! That's right! "It"! And yes for free for the girl. Paid for by us taxpayer but leaving us way in the black. Saving us in many cases a fortune in social services and medical expenses, for what might after several months, eventually become someones unwanted child.
Make it easy on the girls and we prevent almost all late term abortions.
Plus we also know that wealthy people with connections have these things happen to them (their daughters), and what happens? They get it taken care of as they always have and will continue to do.
William769
(55,147 posts)You all have saved our asses more than once.
sheshe2
(83,887 posts)Hey sweetie...
most of you guys have our back and we damn well know that. We are not a piece of the pie, not a wedge you can cut out and push aside and save for a later day. We are what makes that pie complete.
Hill said we are stronger together. She was right.
Cha
(297,625 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 22, 2017, 04:47 AM - Edit history (1)
Party and specifically Black Women historically
And, speaking of that..
Link to tweet
Michelle Obama An Egyptian Queen In New South Side Mural
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170421/south-shore/michelle-obama-mural-gofundme-south-side
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Cha
(297,625 posts)sheshe2
(83,887 posts)Thank you Cha.
Cha
(297,625 posts)You're Welcome!
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Thanks Cha!
Cha
(297,625 posts)Aloha, Riff!
all american girl
(1,788 posts)Cha
(297,625 posts)all american girl
(1,788 posts)Love you Cha!!!!!!
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Because then you can write off half the population.
Cha
(297,625 posts)sheshe2
(83,887 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)They think that their personal morality should rule everyone, even as they freak about about "Sharia Law". The believe that their views about abortion and such should be everyone's views. They don't get it that sex education and birth control are genuinely positive things, because they believe that ignorance is good, and that if a woman gets pregnant she's the only one at fault.
Pro choice is the true pro life stance.
sheshe2
(83,887 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)who are making laws concerning women's bodies.
Cha
(297,625 posts)we've worked so hard to attain will not be undercut or diminished.
Thank you for the Vid of Hillary! Perfect!
Another Strong Woman for Women's Rights..
Link to tweet
Michelle Obama An Egyptian Queen In New South Side Mural
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170421/south-shore/michelle-obama-mural-gofundme-south-side
sheshe2
(83,887 posts)Thank Cha...
Cha
(297,625 posts)sheshe2
(83,887 posts)athena
(4,187 posts)(snip)
The deprioritization of reproductive rights was part of the strategy that helped Rahm Emanuel, chair of the DCCC, win the House for Democrats in 2006. But Ilyse Hogue, head of NARAL Pro-Choice America, argues that we should evaluate that strategy now with an understanding of its longer-term implications: It did not result in more progressive legislation or in a durable governing coalition, she says. It depressed the base and predicated the rise of the Tea Party.
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Open your eyes to where the resistance is really coming from, Hogue urged on Thursday. There are literally millions of women who have been pouring calls into Senate offices, House offices, going to town halls, filing to run for office; we are literally three months out from the largest protest in U.S. history that was overwhelmingly women, in the name of women; thats where the resistance is. This is the Democratic party base. So why is the place to start negotiating the place that pulls the heart out of the resistance?
We women have to put a stop to this new attempt to sacrifice our rights and interests once again in a futile attempt to win over white male Republicans.
Cha
(297,625 posts)they better stop listening to whomever try to make the Dem Party Regressive.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)This so-called Unity Tour is sowing major disunity.
Wounded Bear
(58,704 posts)In the final analysis, if someone somewhere is not totally free, neither am I.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)"unless you believe that women aren't human."
And now we're being told that economic issues are more important than human rights.
sheshe2
(83,887 posts)Sad isn't it.
niyad
(113,550 posts)says, or acts, otherwise.