Trump Dismantled Reproductive Rights Around The World

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First, the president appointed Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, whose conservative record suggests that moncler sale he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 abortion rights decision. Gorsuch hastwice sided against Planned Parenthood funding and birth control access.

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“[Pence] is the real mastermind in the White House, systematically trying to undermine women’s reproductive rights,” she said. “While the president is tweeting and saying crazy things, Pence is executing a campaign to really dismantle health care for women.”

Trump has stumbled and wavered on the issue of reproductive rights throughout his career. He once called himself “very pro choice,” and he defended Planned Parenthood during a GOP primary debate in 2016, conceding that “millions of women are helped” by the organization. He then angered the anti abortion movement when he said at a town hall event during his Moncler Outlet presidential campaign that if abortion became illegal, women should”face some sort of punishment”for undergoing the procedure. Many viewed him as playing into a progressive narrative about Republicans aiming to punish and patronize women.

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cheap moncler jackets But the Trump administration has so far failed to make good on two of his biggest campaign promisesdefunding Planned Parenthood and repealing the Affordable Care Act despite Republicans having control of the House and Senate. Richards offers that as a glimmer of a hope and a sign that women may have more power to resist Trump’s agenda than he realizes. cheap moncler jackets

“You couldn’t go to a single town hall meeting without facing angry women in pink hats and T shirts,” Richards said. “That was something we’ve never seen on that level.”

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