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I've seen the speech where she got thunderous applause saying that about gay rights in a more friendly venue, but just as important.
Saying that where the practice of killing baby girls was literally taking place then as well as forced abortion, that took the strength of one's beliefs and principles. But then, elling the truth emboldens us.
She changed the world for some of the most oppressed women. Her reputation for this and other works abroad is never discussed in media seriously. It's just 'women stuff.'
And the work is not over yet. I believe that empowering women will end so much evil in the world. Controlling women - as the means of reproduction - is a factor in wars, famine, ecological damage through overpopulation and is not being in tune with the Earth.
The possibilities are endless, it is a world view never imagined by most and deeply resisted by Power. Her words on voting in Texas have already changed it. The rightwing knows she means business about Rights.
Her record shows she can be the second feminist POTUS:
The First Feminist President, Barack Obama
by Mandy Van Deven
March 23, 2009
On January 20th the first self-identified feminist was named President of the United States of America. Just two days after taking office, Barack Obama performed his first presidential act of solidarity with women around the world by repealing the Global Gag Rule. Established in 1984 by President Reagan, the Global Gag Rule denies aid to international groups "which perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning."
The Global Gag Rule has come to be seen as a litmus test of the current US President's stance on women's rights, though it is just one aspect of the complicated story of the impact of American reproductive rights policy in countries around the globe. [17]
After witnessing the impact of President Bush's reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule, Michelle Goldberg, journalist, author, and long-time critic of the Bush Administration's policies on sexual and reproductive health, decided that a book about the global battle for reproductive justice was long overdue. So she wrote The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World. [17]
The cover art depicting a woman holding the Earth on her shoulders is more than appropriate for this deeply-researched, historically-informed examination: fifty years worth of research about four continents has convinced Goldberg that women's oppression is at the crux of many of the world's most intractable challenges. She illustrates how US policies act as a catalyst for or an impediment to women's rights worldwide, and puts forth a convincing argument that women's liberation worldwide is key to solving some of our most daunting problems.
"Underlying diverse conflicts - demography, natural resources, human rights, and religious mores - is the question of who controls the means of reproduction," she writes. "Women's intimate lives have become inextricably tied to global forces."
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2009/03/23/controlling-means-reproduction-an-interview-with-michelle-goldberg/
The war on women is not just a war on women, but on men, too. Men who don't support women's rights are sealing their own fate.
Not just an American problem. It is about global control and reducing all of mankind to commodities.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110212801
More on that thread, including a male prosecutor's denunciation of anti-abortion laws and the right.
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