Hillary Clinton’s First Speech as Presumptive Nominee Puts ‘Women’s Issues’ Front and Center

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Hillary Clinton’s First Speech as Presumptive Nominee Puts ‘Women’s Issues’ Front and Center

http://time.com/4364304/hillary-clinton-planned-parenthood-womens-issues/


June 10, 2016

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Alex Brandon—AP Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a Planned Parenthood Action Fund membership event in Washington on June 10, 2016.



In her first speech since she became the first female major party presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton put several traditionally sidelined “women’s issues” front and center.

Speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund Friday, Clinton made clear that issues that affect women and families would be central to the messaging of her general election campaign against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

“For too long, issues like these have been dismissed by many as ‘women’s issues’ – as though that somehow makes them less worthy, secondary,” she said. “Well, yes, these are women’s issues. They’re also family issues. They’re economic issues. They’re justice issues. They’re fundamental to our country and our future.”

She also made clear that she will contrast that message with Trump’s record of comments about women................................


Hillary still working and talking about important issue. So proud of her.




http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-10/clinton-keeps-pressure-on-trump-at-planned-parenthood-gathering


Clinton Keeps Pressure on Trump at Planned Parenthood Gathering
The address was a sharply symbolic choice for her first public appearance since Tuesday’s victory speech.



Jennifer Epstein

June 10, 2016 — 1:26 PM CDT
Clinton: We Won’t Let Trump Turn Back the Clock


Hillary Clinton continued outlining her case against Donald Trump on Friday, charging he “has no idea what’s best for women” during a speech to a key progressive group.

“Do we want to put our health, our lives, our futures in Donald Trump’s hands?” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee asked a Washington gathering of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. “These questions are not hypothetical.”

Clinton’s address was a sharply symbolic choice for her first public appearance since Tuesday’s victory speech after clinching the nomination: a predominantly female crowd, waving bubblegum-pink signs bearing her name, defending a women’s health group that’s under constant threat from Republicans.

Running against Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, this election isn’t just about the usual partisan contrasts, it’s “about who we are as a nation,” she said.

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Drawing on a rhetorical tool she effectively used a week ago during her San Diego foreign policy speech, Clinton sought to use Trump’s own words against him. In March, he said “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions, a statement that Clinton challenged at the time and that drew hisses from the Planned Parenthood crowd as Clinton recalled it.

“Anyone who would so casually agree to the idea of punishing women like it was nothing to him, the most obvious thing in the world, that’s someone who doesn’t hold women in high regard because if he did he would trust women to make the right decisions,” she said.

Clinton also assailed Trump's comments on paid family leave and pay equity for women. “He says if women want equal pay, they should just, and this is a quote, ‘do as good a job as men,’” Clinton said. “As if we weren’t already.”

While Clinton saved her harshest words for Trump, other Republicans weren’t spared. “If right-wing politicians actually cared about protecting women’s health, they’d join me in calling for more federal funding for Planned Parenthood,” she said.

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2. A great speech

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3. Planned Parenthood deserves HUGE RECOGNITION for all t heir incredible aid they've provided to our

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4. Obama, the only sitting pres to address PP

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Obama, the only sitting pres to address PP, didn't say “abortion” in his 2013 speech. Today Clinton said it 16 times

[BootinUp]

5. Hillary is not afraid to stand up for important issues nt

[democrattotheend]

6. I finally got to watch her victory speech Tuesday night

And I was pleasantly surprised that she focused so much on the history of women's rights and embraced her role as the first female nominee. After watching that speech and reading this one, I am starting to get a little bit excited to vote for her in November.

[riversedge]

8. Good to hear. And thank you for the post.

[Spazito]

7. K & R!

[okasha]

9. Marvelous speech.

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10. k&r