You want to talk about women's rights and Democrats? Democrats have abandoned reproductive/pro-choice rights. It's out of the business of being pro-choice because it's trying to turn the Democratic Party into the old Republican Party, grow the Democratic Party by attracting into the party anybody it can. It hasn't actually announced it publicly, but it only goes through the motions of seeming to be champions of women's reproductive choice. When it comes to actually championing the issue, Democratic politicians are AWOL, not only at the top, at the party organization, but absent also are the politicians whose talk as women's champions don't match the walk.
At the national headquarters, there have been the party's leaders, like Howard Dean, who have failed to serve women's issues.
Howard Dean's a nice guy, but he's not a liberal and definitely not 'married' to what I would say are sacrosanct Democratic Party positions, like pro-choice and public healthcare. He's a politician, just like all the rest of them.
You do not rise within either political party unless you have run the gauntlet and proven you're one of the team. You have to buy into the group think, and that group think accepts the status quo that they are beholden to transnational corporations.
Political parties have platforms, written documents, that state clearly what the party stands for, with an agenda and list of goals. The Democratic Party's platform is crystal clear on reproductive rights and ab0rtlon; Democrats Democrats "unequivocally support R0e v. W@de and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal ab0rt!on, regardless of ability to pay, and oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right".
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