Obama's Statement on Women's History Month

[Hope And Change]

Obama's Statement on Women's History Month


By Sarah Ramey - Mar 1st, 2008 at 1:48 pm EST


Senator Barack Obama today released the following statement on Women's History Month:

Women's History Month isn't just a chance to celebrate women's history; it's a chance to honor the extraordinary role women have played in shaping American history. From midnight journeys on the Underground Railroad to marches for women's suffrage and civil rights, from the bomber assembly lines of World War II to the boardrooms of today, women have always shown us what we can achieve when we refuse to settle for the world as it is and choose to remake the world as it should be.

But despite the achievements we honor this month, we know we still have challenges to overcome. We need to build an America where women earn the same pay as men for the same work, and have time off to care for a loved one who's sick; where women have control over the health care decisions that affect their lives, and don't have to choose between their kids and their careers. It's not enough to have a holiday that honors women if we don't also make sure our laws value women.

This holiday is particularly meaningful to me because I would not be the person I am without the women in my life. I was raised by a single mother across two continents, and by a grandmother who instilled in me her own Midwestern values. And my wife Michelle - a woman who's overcome a number of challenges as a lawyer and hospital executive - continues to make me a better man.

Every night I'm home, Michelle and I tuck two little girls into bed. And we want to make sure that they have the same opportunities as every little boy in this country. That's the dream that women have fought for throughout our nation's history, and that's the dream I'll fight to make real as President of the United States.

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[bicentennial_baby]

1. Very nice

:thumbsup:

[adoraz]

2. bu-bu- Barack is a man so he is clearly sexist

don't believe this BS article. He is a man so that makes him sexist.

Hillary 08

(joke post, btw. just a reaction of what is to come)

[Eileen]

3. What I find very disappointing - and forboding -

is the fact that he uses the non-committal phrase "control over their health care decisions" but nowhere either in his site or in this piece does he say what no politician seems to have the balls to say. This makes him a harbinger of more of the same!

I really don't care for his, or any other candidate's mealy mouth platitudes. What I want to know is what he intends to do so that women have control of their own bodies turned back over to them and what he intends to do about the slew of legislation, especially in the current fascist regime, that has weakened, or in some instances eliminated, bodily autonomy from women.

What I'd like to see is a constitutional amendment which adds the right to bodily integrity for all citizens and precludes the ability of the State to interfere or abridge that right.

I am, of course, referring here to anti-choice and anti-woman legislation which has been slowly eroding a womans right to decide whether she wants to gestate a pregnancy or terminate it; whether she wants to deliver her pregnancy at term vaginally or by forced caesarian; whether she has the right to demand a doctor perform the safest surgical procedure, given hir abilities, rather than a surgical procedure mandated by non-medically trained theological fascists in some legislature.

So how about it Obamanauts!! can you point me to an unequivocal statement from your candidate that advocates not only the right to bodily autonomy for all but also the intent to roll back legislation that has abridged that right and to veto any future legislation that will erode the rights of women especially.

Will he also undertake to increase the number of justices appointed to the SCOTUS and appoint new members that are more interested in protecting the rights of the citizenry than the activist judges currently on that bench who are believers that law is based on morality and not on the consensus of teh legislated. By this measure he might protect whatever rights are still in our hands.

It is not time for a change for women - it is time to roll back the changes already instituted which are rushing women into the status they held at the beginning of the 20th century.