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In reply to the discussion: "The energy around what Bernie is doing is insane" ... [View all]Pris
(176 posts)That's why he refused to leave the race when we had the first woman running who was about to become the nominee. A woman with a record of women's and children's rights. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/hillary-clinton-campaign-press-release-7-hillary-clintons-biggest-accomplishments:
As first lady of the United States, Hillary fought to help pass health care reform. When that effort failed, she didn't give up: Hillary worked with Republicans and Democrats to help create the Children's Health Insurance Program. CHIP cut the uninsured rate of American children by half, and today it provides health care to more than 8 million kids.
Standing in front of a U.N. conference and declaring that "women's rights are human rights" was more controversial than it sounds today. Many within the U.S. government didn't want Hillary to go to Beijing. Others wanted her to pick a less polarizing topic (you say polarizing, we say half the population). But Hillary was determined to speak out about human rights abuses, and her message became a rallying cry for a generation.
As secretary of state, Hillary made LGBT rights a focus of U.S. foreign policy. She lobbied for the first-ever U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on human rights and declared that "gay rights are human rights." And here at home, she made the State Department a better, fairer place for LGBT employees to work.