Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:04 pm
Hillary Clinton put an exclamation point on her great week with a speech that completely dismantled Donald Trump.
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While speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Clinton said:
All the issues we’re talking about today are connected. They intersect. And that’s why I’m grateful to the reproductive justice leaders in this room and across America. Because you know that all those issues go straight to that fundamental question: whether we believe women and families of all races and backgrounds and income levels deserve an equal shot in life.
Now that’s what I believe and you won’t be surprised to hear – Donald Trump believes something very different.
He actually thinks guaranteeing paid family leave would leave America less competitive. He says if women want equal pay, we should just – and this is a quote – ‘do as good a job’ as men – as if we weren’t already.
He wants to appoint justices who want to overturn Roe V. Wade. He of course wants to defund Planned Parenthood. And he wants to go after so many of the fundamental rights we have, including safe and legal abortions. And he actually said, ‘women should be punished for having abortions.’ Now, once he said that there was an outcry, as there should have been, and he tried to walk back his comments. He’s doing that a lot lately.
But 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 is someone who doesn’t hold women in high regard. Because if he did, he’d trust women to make the right decisions for ourselves.
But don’t worry. Donald assures us that, as President, he’ll be – and I quote again – ‘the best for women.’
Anyone who wants to defund Planned Parenthood, and wipe out safe, legal abortion has no idea what’s best for women.
And after all this is a man who has called women ‘pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ and ‘disgusting animals.’ Kind of hard to imagine counting on him to respect our fundamental rights?
When he says pregnant women are an ‘inconvenience’ to their employer, what does that say about how he values women – our work, our contributions?
We’re in the middle of a concerted, persistent assault on women’s health across our country. And we have to ask ourselves and ask everyone we come in contact with: Do we want to put our health, our lives, our futures in Donald Trump’s hands?
Now, these questions aren’t hypothetical. Every woman – and everyone who cares about women – will answer them when they vote in November.
When I talk like this, Donald Trump likes to say I’m playing the ‘woman card.’ And I like to say, if fighting for equal pay, Planned Parenthood, and the ability to make our own health decisions is playing the woman card, then deal me in.
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The late, great Maya Angelou said: ‘When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.’
Donald Trump has shown us who he is. And we sure should believe him.
Hillary Clinton has a had a great week. She clinched the Democratic nomination on Monday, scored a big win in California on Tuesday, got the endorsements of President Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday, and in between Donald Trump and the Republican Party has been in a state of near warfare with one another.
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