Lesley Gore recorded the single “You Don’t Own Me” in 1964, yet there has been a roll back on women's rights (along with other social achievements) since then.
Women constitute more than half of the population. In 2008, 60% of voters were women. It is estimated that 10 million more women than men will vote in this election. Despite this, women make up only 16% of Congress. Women earn only 70 cents to each dollar men make. Women of color and undocumented women make less than white citizens. Mitt Romney and the Republican Party are determined to overturn Roe V. Wade. Romney has not supported equal pay for women (The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act). Romney has vowed to defund Planned Parenthood. Romney has vowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Romney doesn't want health care to cover birth control. Romney says same sex marriage should be banned with a Constitutional Amendment.
It is the entire Republican party, at all levels, that has worked overtime to become the enemy of women.
ReplyDeleteNot just American women, although we're the closest group of people they can try to dominate.
The Right wants to do the same thing worldwide, cutting any contribution to other countries or to the U.N. that provides family planning, including contraception and abortion.
They want foreign women who are raped, even young girls, to have to endure that pregnancy too.
They are hateful, evil people who pat themselves on the back for their moral superiority while being neither moral nor in any way superior.