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[yallerdawg]

3 Foreign Women Visited The U.S. To Assess Gender Equality. They Were Horrified.
The Huffington Post, by Laura Bassett

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The most telling moment of the trip, the women told reporters on Friday, was when they visited an abortion clinic in Alabama and experienced the hostile political climate around women's reproductive rights.

"We were harassed. There were two vigilante men waiting to insult us," said Frances Raday, the delegate from the U.K. The men repeatedly shouted, "You're murdering children!" at them as soon as they neared the clinic, even though Raday said they are clearly past childbearing age.

"It's a kind of terrorism," added Eleonora Zielinska, the delegate from Poland. "To us, it was shocking."

In most European countries, she explained, abortions are performed at general doctors' offices and hospitals that offer all kinds of other health services, so there aren't protesters waiting to heckle the women who enter.

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"The lack of accommodation in the workplace to women's pregnancy, birth and post-natal needs is shocking," Raday said. "Unthinkable in any society, and certainly one of the richest societies in the world."

Another main area of concern for the delegation is violence against women -- particularly gun violence. Women are 11 times more likely to be killed by a gun in the United States than in other high-income countries, and most of those murders are perpetrated by an intimate partner. While the Obama administration has talked a lot about combatting violence against women, its efforts have been frustrated by Congress' inability to pass new federal gun restrictions.
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Read the rest at: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/3-foreign-women-visited-the-us-to-assess-gender-equality-they-were-horrified/ar-BBnBad9?li=BBnb7Kz&OCID=HPDHP

[Thinkingabout]

1. These are two areas of concern. Having committees of men to determine

Women's issues and probably those same men think guns is not a problem is not exactly a good decision. Made by men and misunderstood by men.

[NCTraveler]

2. "It's a kind of terrorism"

It is terrorism.

[yallerdawg]

3. And this!

More "American exceptionalism"?

While the delegates were shocked by many things they saw in the U.S., perhaps the biggest surprise of their trip, they said, was learning that women in the country don't seem to know what they're missing.

"So many people really believe that U.S. women are way better off with respect to rights than any woman in the world," Raday said. "They would say, 'Prove it! What do you mean other people have paid maternity leave?'"

[niyad]

4. and yet, even on this board, we have people insisting that women here have it great--and have

no business complaining, because women in other countries have it so bad. of course, they never look at the countries where women have it better.

[2naSalit]

6. +1!

[yallerdawg]

7. Yes, you don't have to look far...

to find this!

[SoapBox]

9. Yup.

And it's disgusting.

[Starry Messenger]

13. I know.

Silence today from the wag who rebukes us for not being in Saudi Arabia. I'm sure they'll find some other way of putting us in our place.

[cali]

5. Wait, what. The criticism from the woman from Poland is a bit odd considering

that abortion rights there are close to nonexistent.

[niyad]

10. you mean, like here???

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you DID forget the sarcasm thingy, yes???

[MeNMyVolt]

12. Cali, come on. I know you're better than this.

What's up woman?

[cali]

14. Better than what?

Simply pointing out a fact.

[jalan48]

8. I started waking up to the good ole USA in the 60's.

I was shocked the more I learned about our racist, war like country. It's not how most American's see the country, they want to believe in the mythology that we are only trying to help other countries to be free and the rest of the bull shit put out by the main stream media.

[George II]

11. Unbelievable that one of the presumably progressive countries in the world....

...has never had a woman leader.

Canada, Great Britain, France, and Germany have all had at least one female leader, among many other countries. Why not the US?

[yallerdawg]

15. It is really remarkable.

Then consider the one female candidate who has ever had a realistic chance to win election as the President of the United States is one of the most demonized and vilified characters in American political history.

This means something.

[Cal33]

18. And the fact that Elizabeth Warren, who has a good following and a good chance of winning,

but declined to run for president, in spite of the large numbers of people urging her, could
also mean something.

[JRLeft]

16. Another vote for Hillary because she is a woman thread.

We should all ignore her Wall Street friendship and kiss the ring. SMFH.

[yallerdawg]

17. She is "friends with Wall Street."

I appreciate meaningless platitudes. They bring so much to the discussion.

Since millions of Americans are "friends with Wall Street" I have to assume your issue is with the "she" part?

[Cal33]

20. If "friends with Wall Street" is meaningless to you, something must be missing somewhere.

[JRLeft]

22. And people wonder why income inequality continue to grow no matter

which party is in power. Republicans and corporate dems are pulling in the same direction.

[LexVegas]

19. We obviously need another white man to save us. nt

[Cal33]

21. A woman like Elizabeth Warren would have done fine, but she declined the offer. I sure

would have voted for her. Would you? Bernie Sanders is fine with me, too. Gender
doesn't matter.