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Related: About this forumThis is what a feminist presidential candidate looks like (Planned Parenthood speech)
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jess mcintosh ?@jess_mc 5m5 minutes agopreview from @melissamcewan on this speech and what a feminist presidential candidacy looks like: http://bluenationreview.com/hillary-speech-planned-parenthood/
At the Planned Parenthood National Conference in DC, Hillary Clinton delivers her first speech after clinching the Democratic nomination. Thats right: Hillarys first post-victory speech as the first female presidential nominee of a major party in the nations history will be to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
As Hillary pivots to the general election, speaking at the Planned Parenthood conference in the nations capital sends a strongand unmistakablemessage about her priorities.
First: That her commitment to women and familieswhich has been a centerpiece of her career from her time as an attorney to her tenure as Secretary of Stateis unwavering. Access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare has always been a crucial part of the polities shes championed. That hasnt, and will not, change.
Second: That she recognizes the importance of making sure all people who need access to abortion have it. Black women and Latinas, who are disproportionately likely to live in poverty, are also disproportionately likely to have their access to abortion limited by state-level abortion restrictions and by the inability to personally fund abortions. To that end, Hillary will reiterate her support for repealing the Hyde Amendment.
Third: That she has zero tolerance for Republicans hostility toward abortion and contraception accessor, for that matter, for Donald Trumps contemptible attitudes toward women generally. Get ready for her to bring the fire!
I am very excited that Hillary is making Planned Parenthood her first stop as the nominee. I am grateful to her for making reproductive rights such a visible priority.
This is why it matters that Hillary is a progressive woman. She understands, as a woman herself, as a person who had to balance family and career, as a mother, as a grandmother, as a boss to other working moms, how important it is to have control of ones reproduction.
She knows that because she listens. She listens to other parents, to their struggles. She listens to women who dont want children, to their fears. She listens to pregnant people, to their needs.
Here, for example, is Hillary at a Congressional hearing on reproductive rights in 2009, sharing a little bit of what shes learned by listening: We happen to think that family planning is an important part of womens healthand reproductive health includes access to abortion.
Hillary is a candidate who carries with her the stories of women she has met all across the globe. Our successes and struggles, our joy and heartbreak. And she doesnt see us as a special interest group, but as half the worlds population. Of which she is a part.
She recognizes our reproductive healthcare needs as both vast and urgentand, unlike every other person who has held the office to which she aspires, she does not have the luxury of pretending that these needs are somehow separate, and secondary, to all the other issues being discussed.
When she talks about economic justice, she knows that half the populations economic security is inextricably tied to our ability to control our reproduction.
When she talks about workers rights, she knows that half the populations employment opportunities and security are inextricably tied to our ability to control our reproduction.
When she talks about foreign policy, she knows that half the populations freedom, or lack thereof, which is inextricably tied to our ability to control our reproduction, can mean the difference between stability or extremism.
Over and over and over, Hillary has spoken about how women are key to peacekeeping. How we must be empowered to participate fully in every nation. How we are wasting half the worlds talent when we oppress women. And she knows that all of that is inextricably tied to our ability to control our reproduction.
No other candidate in this election has articulated so clearly a vision of a world in which women are given, must be given, every opportunity to participate, fully and on our own terms.
No one else would make Planned Parenthood their first port of call.
This is what a feminist presidential candidate looks like.
read: http://bluenationreview.com/hillary-speech-planned-parenthood/
watch: (live 1:00, or watch from beginning)
http://www.c-span.org/video/?410914-1/hillary-clinton-addresses-planned-parenthood-action-fund
Dana Goldstein ?@DanaGoldstein 8m8 minutes ago
pretty neat that HRC is linking birth control and abortion rights w/ women working & contributing to economic growth http://www.c-span.org/video/?410914-1/hillary-clinton-addresses-planned-parenthood-action-fund
Zerlina Maxwell ?@ZerlinaMaxwell 31m31 minutes ago
ICYMI here's a Transcript of @HillaryClinton's REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE speech at PPFA this afternoon. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/updates/2016/06/10/hillary-clinton-delivers-remarks-at-planned-parenthood-action-fund/
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This is what a feminist presidential candidate looks like (Planned Parenthood speech) (Original Post)
bigtree
Jun 2016
OP
did anyone ask about her support for constitutional curbs on reproductive rights?
Doctor_J
Jun 2016
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FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)1. K&R
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Hillary Clinton ?@HillaryClinton 1h1 hour ago
The Hyde Amendment restricts the reproductive rights of low-income womendisproportionately women of color. We need to repeal it now.
Hillary Clinton ?@HillaryClinton 1h1 hour ago
Ever notice the politicians who oppose birth control and abortion also oppose policies that make it easier to raise a childlike paid leave?
The Hyde Amendment restricts the reproductive rights of low-income womendisproportionately women of color. We need to repeal it now.
Hillary Clinton ?@HillaryClinton 1h1 hour ago
Ever notice the politicians who oppose birth control and abortion also oppose policies that make it easier to raise a childlike paid leave?
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)4. HillYes!!
It *is* pretty neat that HRC is linking birth control and abortion rights w/ women working & contributing to economic growth.
oasis
(49,370 posts)5. Thanks bigtree.K and R
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)6. K&R God Bless You Planned Parenthood!!!!!
TwilightZone
(25,456 posts)7. And a liberal, progressive one, as well.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)8. did anyone ask about her support for constitutional curbs on reproductive rights?
I'm mildly surprised to see pp supporting such a candidate. I would think that capital punishment and war and torture and for profit healthcare might lead them to a different candidate. I think her gender overrides her conservative outlook for many. I still support pp.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)10. You appear to be amazingly uninformed about Hillary's policies. n/t
bigtree
(85,986 posts)11. kick