I am so disappointed that Trump won. Worse, Clinton did have more votes, but the system doesn't go by popular vote, but by each state having a certain number of votes in the electoral college
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I fear for so many different areas in this. Roe vs Wade is in danger. To me no one should have power over another person's body, health or choices. I've read about some countries that are so strict against a woman having a choice that if they miscarry, the woman is investigated to see if she ended her pregnancy and could be charged with murder.
The things he wants to drag us back to just aren't going to fly. At least I sincerely hope not. Too many younger people aren't familiar with what life was like back in the day.
I grew up in the time where women had few choices. So many of the younger Americans know of the horrible things done to women in countries outside of America, but know nothing about how women were treated her just a few decades ago. It hasn't been so long ago women were just their father's or husband's property.
It isn't just male politicians. Many women voted for Trump. One of my fears is that someone will take Trump out and then we will have to deal with Mike Pence. Pence wanted to end funds for HIV and use them to fund conversion therapy. He is against rights for LGBT. He also voted against Medicare Part D which is for drugs. Trump is horrible, but Pence hides behind Religion and uses it to deny others human rights.
I agree. Pence would be worse, and he would have more Republican members of Congress behind him.
There are, alas, many women who oppose abortion rights. I remember reading the riot act to a woman I used to work with, aprox. my age, who marches in the January March for Life every year. She asked if I was going and was shocked when I said if I did, I'd be on the other side of the street protesting. Now, this woman was/is a twit. But she was very sincere (good Catholic) that abortions would cease if they weren't legal. By the time I finished telling her about the real world in the 50s and 60s, how and where women who needed them got their abortions and why that wasn't going to go away just because it became illegal again, she was white as a sheet. She'd apparently never heard from anyone with real information to share. I doubt I changed her mind about her religious beliefs that they were a sin, but I opened the hell out of her eyes in terms of what she'd be doing to other women by voting to make them illegal again.
That is one of the problems. Many have never lived during the times where to have an abortion was difficult or even dangerous. Most have never known about back alley abortions or women who take drugs to cause abortions or even how women would try to hurt themselves to cause an miscarriage. When I was a teen, wealthy people could afford to travel to places where they could have an abortion in a safe place. Those who couldn't often would seek out someone who claimed to be a doctor or nurse, but wasn't really trained. It usually ended very badly.
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There are, alas, many women who oppose abortion rights. I remember reading the riot act to a woman I used to work with, aprox. my age, who marches in the January March for Life every year. She asked if I was going and was shocked when I said if I did, I'd be on the other side of the street protesting. Now, this woman was/is a twit. But she was very sincere (good Catholic) that abortions would cease if they weren't legal. By the time I finished telling her about the real world in the 50s and 60s, how and where women who needed them got their abortions and why that wasn't going to go away just because it became illegal again, she was white as a sheet. She'd apparently never heard from anyone with real information to share. I doubt I changed her mind about her religious beliefs that they were a sin, but I opened the hell out of her eyes in terms of what she'd be doing to other women by voting to make them illegal again.
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