Make no mistake: Trump has declared war on women
The Guardian‘s Lucia Graves lays into the misogynist-in-chief:
In the mass of protesters thronging the National Mall in Washington DC on Saturday, one sign stood out to me. It was a wire close hanger mounted on cardboard, held by a young woman of color in pigtails. “Never again,” it read.
As it turns out, for poor women overseas, never was only as far away as Monday.
Donald Trump used his first full day as president to reinstate a Reagan-era executive order that will have a devastating impact on those with the fewest resources: women and girls in impoverished parts of the word. The order, best known as the “global gag rule,” will strip funding from any international NGO that provides abortions services, or even discusses abortion with patients seeking educational materials or referrals.
Study upon study has shown eliminating access to abortion services doesn’t eliminate abortions, it just forces women underground into dangerous situations.
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Because Trump has been outspoken with regard to the other executive orders he signed off on Monday – instituting a federal hiring freeze, and withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But he hasn’t made a point of talking about abortion access unless asked. While it’s true executive’s implementation of the “global gag rule” has historically been reversed as soon as the opposite party takes over the White House, previous proponents – Ronald Reagan and George W Bush – ran on platforms of social conservatism. Trump was less easy to pin down. As he told Howard Stern of his stance on abortion in 2013: “it’s never been my big issue.”
Trump seemed to have outsourced the question to his running mate Mike Pence, a staunch anti-abortion advocate whose selection by Trump was widely seen as a peace offering to evangelical voters alienated by Trump’s lifestyle. The peace offering worked and Trump won evangelicals in a landslide.
But illusions Trump would, as he put it in a fleeting election night gesture, “be the president of everybody,” just went out the window. “The president, it’s no secret, has made it very clear he’s a pro-life president,” his spokesman Sean Spicer said in the first White House press briefing. “He wants to stand up for all Americans including the unborn.”
It’s quite the way to describe the gutting of a policy that’s spared an estimated 289,000 women from pregnancy- or childbirth-related deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
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If Trump’s desire to “punish” women sounds familiar, that’s because, well, it should. In March of last year he said those seeking abortions should endure “some form of punishment” for doing so. And while yes, he walked back his tone-deaf statement in the explosive political aftermath, his actions Monday spoke louder than words.
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20 responses to Make no mistake: Trump has declared war on women
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Suzanne McFly January 24th, 2017 at 10:52
I think the signing of the gag rule proves we need to get rid of pence first. This wasn’t even in rumps mind, he wants to appease his audience and this decision will not do that. This idea was all pence, he is as evil as rump and he has a brain, much worse than rump in multiple ways.
fahvel January 24th, 2017 at 11:31
oh Suz, you are so right. Never give up the fight against ignorance and putain tyranny.
Red Mann January 24th, 2017 at 10:56
Just following Gawd’s Holy Word.
Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
fahvel January 24th, 2017 at 11:30
andf fk that particular god too!!!!!!
Red Mann January 24th, 2017 at 11:37
Good idea, but you can’t f*ck something that doesn’t even exist.
Larry Schmitt January 24th, 2017 at 11:45
It’s called fantasy sex.
oldfart January 24th, 2017 at 12:20
of which Herr tRumpster appears to enjoy
granpa.usthai January 24th, 2017 at 14:28
I’m hearing he gets off dancing in the ur-ine?
granpa.usthai January 24th, 2017 at 14:26
hey, if you ever get hungry, you can eat the kid!
Biblical but true!
(still not clear if they have to be dead first or not?)
just be sure to say grace beforehand.
Larry Schmitt January 24th, 2017 at 11:26
“…stand up for all Americans including the unborn.” Uh, if they’re unborn, they’re not Americans yet. How about standing up for those women who will be forced to have children they don’t want and can’t afford?
granpa.usthai January 24th, 2017 at 14:19
better yet, why not just allow them to decide for themselves ~
you know, like in
you’re FREE to decide for yourself
?
makes sense to me….
fahvel January 24th, 2017 at 11:30
sadly, the idiot in the maison blanche is a fkn puppet and hasn’t an original thought or idea in his ugly head. Hopefully the women of the usa will unrelentingly never stop opposing the ahole.
oldfart January 24th, 2017 at 12:26
“it’s no secret, has made it very clear he’s a pro-life president,”
It’s also no secret that he was also pro-choice…
“He wants to stand up for all Americans including the unborn.”
He wants, somebody…ANYBODY, to like him…And he’s willing to do anything, like lie.
granpa.usthai January 24th, 2017 at 14:14
from what a friend of a friend of Bond James Bond is saying, he’s quite clear on video as a Ponme kinda guy too!
granpa.usthai January 24th, 2017 at 14:17
well,
at least he has a record of not actually doing anything about UNDECLARED WARS except limp around til it’s over.
William January 24th, 2017 at 15:09
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The Original Just Me January 24th, 2017 at 21:58
trump is Definitely going Insane ! There is No Doubt about IT !
Mensa Member January 24th, 2017 at 22:53
Insane? He’s a raging narcissist but that’s not considered insane.
Bunya January 27th, 2017 at 13:47
What do you mean, “going”?
Lyndia January 25th, 2017 at 01:33
Four more years of this chit.