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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2016 Democratic Party Platform re: Women's Reproductive Rights
Securing Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
Democrats are committed to protecting and advancing reproductive health, rights, and justice. We believe unequivocally, like the majority of Americans, that every woman should have access to quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortionregardless of where she lives, how much money she makes, or how she is insured. We believe that reproductive health is core to womens, mens, and young peoples health and wellbeing. We will continue to stand up to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood health centers, which provide critical health services to millions of people. We will continue to opposeand seek to overturnfederal and state laws and policies that impede a womans access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde Amendment. We condemn and will combat any acts of violence, harassment, and intimidation of reproductive health providers, patients, and staff. We will defend the ACA, which extends affordable preventive health care to women, including no- cost contraception, and prohibits discrimination in health care based on gender.
We will address the discrimination and barriers that inhibit meaningful access to reproductive health care services, including those based on gender, sexuality, race, income, disability, and other factors. We recognize that quality, affordable comprehensive health care, evidence-based sex education and a full range of family planning services help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and thereby also reduce the need for abortions.
And we strongly and unequivocally support a womans decision to have a child, including by ensuring a safe and healthy pregnancy and childbirth, and by providing services during
pregnancy and after the birth of a child, including adoption and social support services, as well as protections for women against pregnancy discrimination. We are committed to creating a society where children are safe and can thrive physically, emotionally, educationally, and spiritually. We recognize and support the importance of civil structures that are essential to creating this for every child.
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2016 Democratic Party Platform re: Women's Reproductive Rights (Original Post)
ProudLib72
Aug 2017
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"I have been for the Hyde Amendment. And I have not changed my position on that, -Tim Kaine July'16
PoliticAverse
Aug 2017
#1
Polls show about 71% of those that identify as "Democrat" also say they are "Pro Choice". n/t
PoliticAverse
Aug 2017
#8
And they certainly shouldn't be parroting the religious right "culture war" crap in the GOP platform
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2017
#11
I agree. I encourage everyone to read our 2016 platform, and then compare it to the GOP's.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2017
#10
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. "I have been for the Hyde Amendment. And I have not changed my position on that, -Tim Kaine July'16
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2. Not so fast
In comments this week to CNN and Bloomberg News, the Clinton campaign has signaled that Kaine now had indeed checked it out and stands with Clinton on public funding of abortion. He has said that he will stand with Secretary Clinton to defend a woman's right to choose, to repeal the Hyde Amendment, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told CNN.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/tim-kaine-now-backs-lifting-hyde-amendment-banning-abortion-funding-n618246
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/tim-kaine-now-backs-lifting-hyde-amendment-banning-abortion-funding-n618246
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)4. "Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told CNN". n/t
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)6. Even if he didn't
The Hyde Amendment is just about federal funding. It's ancillary. Yes, I get your point, but it's not like drawing a big red X through this whole section, which is what the DCCC now wants to do.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)3. May I point out...
this would be the losing party platform and we now have a Republican House, Senate and President picking Supreme Court justices and drafting pro-life legislation?
Let's not ponder that.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)5. Baby with the bathwater
And let's not get into the discussion of how come we lost. I don't think it had much to do with this issue.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)7. Yes, we can see it's not an issue.
We are pro-choice.
Let's move on.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)8. Polls show about 71% of those that identify as "Democrat" also say they are "Pro Choice". n/t
Weekend Warrior
(1,301 posts)9. And we believe the members of the party...
Should fit within most of the platform.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)11. And they certainly shouldn't be parroting the religious right "culture war" crap in the GOP platform
.....wouldn't you agree?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)10. I agree. I encourage everyone to read our 2016 platform, and then compare it to the GOP's.
https://www.democrats.org/party-platform
https://www.gop.com/the-2016-republican-party-platform/
So, if someone finds themselves spewing any of the shit that is contained in the GOP platform, well...
as far as I'm concerned, they don't belong on this site, do they.
https://www.gop.com/the-2016-republican-party-platform/
So, if someone finds themselves spewing any of the shit that is contained in the GOP platform, well...
as far as I'm concerned, they don't belong on this site, do they.