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Rose Siding

(32,623 posts)
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 08:36 AM Jun 2016

Clinton's 1st speech as nominee will be at Planned Parenthood, No center pivot here

At the Planned Parenthood National Conference in DC, Hillary Clinton delivers her first speech after clinching the Democratic nomination. That’s right: Hillary’s first post-victory speech as the first female presidential nominee of a major party in the nation’s history will be to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
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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 doesn’t see us as a special interest group, but as half the world’s population. Of which she is a part.....
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.

http://bluenationreview.com/hillary-speech-planned-parenthood/
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Clinton's 1st speech as nominee will be at Planned Parenthood, No center pivot here (Original Post) Rose Siding Jun 2016 OP
K&R! DemonGoddess Jun 2016 #1
The only people who think she's going to pivot hard to the center are people who don't understand TwilightZone Jun 2016 #2
Agreed. nt BobbyDrake Jun 2016 #10
I think so too shadowandblossom Jun 2016 #15
Women's reproductive rights are just too damn important! Her Sister Jun 2016 #3
Brilliant, symbolic tactical choice. Bravo Team Hillary! Surya Gayatri Jun 2016 #4
Perhaps It's My Age But Vogon_Glory Jun 2016 #5
Goldwater's own wife was a co-founder of a PP clinic Rose Siding Jun 2016 #7
You & me both. But considering how Margaret Sanger was thrown in prison for trying to educate women Hekate Jun 2016 #13
BAM! tanyev Jun 2016 #6
Not at all surprised, but sadly, it will dominate GOP talking points for the next few weeks. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #8
True, but many Republican women see the need for reproductive health, including abortion services. Arkansas Granny Jun 2016 #9
"This is what a feminist presidential candidate looks like" ismnotwasm Jun 2016 #11
K & R!!! sarae Jun 2016 #12
k and r niyad Jun 2016 #14
Brilliant choice! wysi Jun 2016 #16
Here it is: Princess Turandot Jun 2016 #17
I finally watched the speech earlier today. DemonGoddess Jun 2016 #18

DemonGoddess

(5,123 posts)
1. K&R!
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 08:42 AM
Jun 2016

You know, given the feminist aspects of her speech Tuesday, I wasn't exactly expecting much of a swing to center. Sure, she'll do it a little bit because she has to, but I don't think she will on this part.

TwilightZone

(28,833 posts)
2. The only people who think she's going to pivot hard to the center are people who don't understand
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 08:47 AM
Jun 2016

where she is on the scale in the first place.

 

Her Sister

(6,444 posts)
3. Women's reproductive rights are just too damn important!
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 08:47 AM
Jun 2016

This is a dead serious issue. We cannot lose them. We cannot go back! We cannot lose this fight!

Vogon_Glory

(9,571 posts)
5. Perhaps It's My Age But
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 08:54 AM
Jun 2016

Perhaps it's my age and my gray hair, but I don't see what's so left-wing about Planned Parenthood. I'm old enough to remember a time when trying to give poor women access to reproductive and obstetric care was a bi-partisan matter, not a belief solely confined to Democrats and progressive.

Of course, that was before Republican opportunists invited in the Religious Right and turned the GOP into a party of social reactionaries with a public health policy "worthy" of the most squalid right-wing oligarchical dictatorships of the first half of the last century.

For the life of me I STILL don't understand why thoughtful men and women who love babies and their own children would allow obscuritan and indifferent Republican politicians to make decisions about public health.


Rose Siding

(32,623 posts)
7. Goldwater's own wife was a co-founder of a PP clinic
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 08:59 AM
Jun 2016

But times are different. States are rapidly eroding this right, from govts that were elected by majority. I agree it shouldn't be exclusively left wing, but there you have it. It has to be addressed strongly.

Hekate

(94,643 posts)
13. You & me both. But considering how Margaret Sanger was thrown in prison for trying to educate women
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 11:17 AM
Jun 2016

...PP has had a long history of violence perpetrated against it. As far as I can tell that had settled down a lot when I was a kid in the 1950s-1960s, but there must have been a lot of ugliness simmering just under the surface of our apparent progress.

The opposition to abortion, contraception, and the whole gamut of women's reproductive health choices has never been about protecting women and children and has always been about sex, from Margaret Sanger's time until now. Bad, dirty, unauthorized sex. For women who have unauthorized sex, the results should always be considered their just punishment.

I know supporting PP used to be bipartisan, but somewhere along the way the GOP made some extremely cynical choices, and choosing to exploit and amplify a whole host of social issues among those frightened of change was certainly right up there on the cynicism scale.

Arkansas Granny

(31,827 posts)
9. True, but many Republican women see the need for reproductive health, including abortion services.
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 09:53 AM
Jun 2016

This is an important issue and I'm glad to see that she's taking it on.

ismnotwasm

(42,454 posts)
11. "This is what a feminist presidential candidate looks like"
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 10:44 AM
Jun 2016

Exactly --none of that "agree to disagree" horseshit.

niyad

(119,911 posts)
14. k and r
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 12:42 PM
Jun 2016

her commitment to women's and children's rights is something that many people seem to forget.

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