Yesterday was the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz recently got criticized for suggesting that young women have gotten complacent post Roe v. Wade.
Now Ms. Wasserman-Schultz is a lightning rod for a whole host of reasons. I like her myself though I have to say that if she did give us fewer less profile debates to help Hillary it was not necessary and somewhat counterproductive as HRC is a very good debater.
You could argue that one reason the polls have tightened during January is HRC was out there a ittle less in December. She has been doing better the last few weeks.
But whatever you think of Ms. Schultz- think she's judged too harshly-you have to say that she might have a point about complacency.
Bernie made one comment at the end of the Iowa Black and Brown Forum that I found a little arresting. He said that he thinks we have had more progress against sexism than racism.
In fairness. he was asked this and as it was the Black and Brown Forum maybe he felt this was the safer answer than saying race has made more progress.
I kind of think it was a trap question. But in my mind the right answer is that they both remain big problems but you can't really quantify which has made more progress.
I actually think there's a good case to be made that there has been less progress on gender and I say this based on how racial vs gender issues are discussed in public.
People still feel free to dismiss women's issues as 'identity politics.' A lot of Bernie supporters simply dismiss those who support Hillary as engaging in 'identity politics' which sort of echoes the notorious Maureen Dowd slur that Hillary 'exploits her gender.'
Comments like this say a lot more about Dowd and friends than they say about Hillary-they actually say nothing about her.
But if Bernie sees the issue of sexism of making more progress perhaps he will focus less resources and political capital on them.
It is kind of ironic that this flak has come up in conjunction with the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
No young women or anyone else concerned about women's issues should be complacent. Many feminists argue that the war on women is over and they've lost. It's not hard to see it that way. In many red states access to safe abortion and other birth control services are all but nonexistent.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/planned-parenthood-abortion-the-war-is-over
Roe v. Wade exists on the books but not in the reality of many women, especially for poor women and women of color in red states across the country.
"Stephanie Schriock, the president of EMILY's List and a former board member for pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA, published a Medium piece late Thursday declaring Clinton the "only candidate in this race — from either party" who's a champion of abortion access for women. Not Sanders, Schriock wrote."
“I was as shocked as many of my progressive friends were when Bernie Sanders dismissed Planned Parenthood as part of the establishment he’s fighting against — just because they endorsed Hillary. It was petty, it was counter-productive, and it was wrong,” she wrote. “Bernie Sanders just doesn’t get it.”
"For Sanders, changing the conversation was an imperative given the historic backdrop of the day – and the counter-programming he was up against. At one Hillary Clinton event Friday, she was accompanied by Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. On Thursday, Hogue had also taken to Medium to criticize Sanders ‘establishment’ remark."
“Senator Sanders delivers remarks multiple times a day, every day, but he has yet to make the crisis facing America’s women and families with regard to abortion access a meaningful part of his campaign,” Hogue wrote, noting that his health care plan did not mention women or reproductive health.
"At Clinton’s town hall at the Rochester Opera House here Friday, while the candidate herself avoided allusions to Sanders on reproductive rights, New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen did it for her in her introduction of the former secretary of state."
"She did not back down on women's rights around the world and she is not going to back down on women's rights here at home," Shaheen said. The senator noted other 2016 candidates couldn't have handled the grilling Clinton took before the Republican-run House Benghazi Committee."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/bernie-sanders-abortion-218123#ixzz3y4xQD6fj
Who do you trust to turn the tide against choice in this country? The answer is pretty clear.
Now Ms. Wasserman-Schultz is a lightning rod for a whole host of reasons. I like her myself though I have to say that if she did give us fewer less profile debates to help Hillary it was not necessary and somewhat counterproductive as HRC is a very good debater.
You could argue that one reason the polls have tightened during January is HRC was out there a ittle less in December. She has been doing better the last few weeks.
But whatever you think of Ms. Schultz- think she's judged too harshly-you have to say that she might have a point about complacency.
Bernie made one comment at the end of the Iowa Black and Brown Forum that I found a little arresting. He said that he thinks we have had more progress against sexism than racism.
In fairness. he was asked this and as it was the Black and Brown Forum maybe he felt this was the safer answer than saying race has made more progress.
I kind of think it was a trap question. But in my mind the right answer is that they both remain big problems but you can't really quantify which has made more progress.
I actually think there's a good case to be made that there has been less progress on gender and I say this based on how racial vs gender issues are discussed in public.
People still feel free to dismiss women's issues as 'identity politics.' A lot of Bernie supporters simply dismiss those who support Hillary as engaging in 'identity politics' which sort of echoes the notorious Maureen Dowd slur that Hillary 'exploits her gender.'
Comments like this say a lot more about Dowd and friends than they say about Hillary-they actually say nothing about her.
But if Bernie sees the issue of sexism of making more progress perhaps he will focus less resources and political capital on them.
It is kind of ironic that this flak has come up in conjunction with the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
No young women or anyone else concerned about women's issues should be complacent. Many feminists argue that the war on women is over and they've lost. It's not hard to see it that way. In many red states access to safe abortion and other birth control services are all but nonexistent.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/planned-parenthood-abortion-the-war-is-over
Roe v. Wade exists on the books but not in the reality of many women, especially for poor women and women of color in red states across the country.
"Stephanie Schriock, the president of EMILY's List and a former board member for pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA, published a Medium piece late Thursday declaring Clinton the "only candidate in this race — from either party" who's a champion of abortion access for women. Not Sanders, Schriock wrote."
“I was as shocked as many of my progressive friends were when Bernie Sanders dismissed Planned Parenthood as part of the establishment he’s fighting against — just because they endorsed Hillary. It was petty, it was counter-productive, and it was wrong,” she wrote. “Bernie Sanders just doesn’t get it.”
"For Sanders, changing the conversation was an imperative given the historic backdrop of the day – and the counter-programming he was up against. At one Hillary Clinton event Friday, she was accompanied by Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. On Thursday, Hogue had also taken to Medium to criticize Sanders ‘establishment’ remark."
“Senator Sanders delivers remarks multiple times a day, every day, but he has yet to make the crisis facing America’s women and families with regard to abortion access a meaningful part of his campaign,” Hogue wrote, noting that his health care plan did not mention women or reproductive health.
"At Clinton’s town hall at the Rochester Opera House here Friday, while the candidate herself avoided allusions to Sanders on reproductive rights, New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen did it for her in her introduction of the former secretary of state."
"She did not back down on women's rights around the world and she is not going to back down on women's rights here at home," Shaheen said. The senator noted other 2016 candidates couldn't have handled the grilling Clinton took before the Republican-run House Benghazi Committee."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/bernie-sanders-abortion-218123#ixzz3y4xQD6fj
Who do you trust to turn the tide against choice in this country? The answer is pretty clear.
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