Women’s health clinics from Iowa to Kenya have been forced to close their doors. International nonprofits have lost the ability to provide birth control, HIV testing and fistula surgeries in the poorest communities around the world. Half a million U.S. teenagers no longer have access to sex education programs.
In a single year, President Donald Trump has already decimated reproductive rights and access to family planning in the U.S. and around the globe. He reinstated and massively expanded the Global Gag Rule, restricting $8.8 billion in U.S. foreign aid funding for international health programs that provide or even mention abortion. He defunded the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a global maternal health organization that provides contraception and pregnancy care to low-income women in 150 countries. The group had relied on U.S. money to help to prevent 295,000 unsafe abortions ― a leading cause (13 percent) of maternal deaths around the world.
International health workers are already seeing the effects of Trump’s policies on women and girls.
“Girls aren’t able to get contraception, and they’re starting to come back pregnant, suicidal, bereft,” said Lisa Shannon, a global women’s rights advocate who works with reproductive health clinics in East Africa. “They’re desperate, and they’ll do whatever it takes. The only difference here is that the women will die from unsafe abortions.”
Donald Trump loves women when they look like Stormy Daniels, dress pretty for him, or constantly kiss is tangerine colored ass, but when it comes to supporting polices that help them, Trump simply does not give two shits.
Trump follows the GOP talking points and labels himself "pro-life," but in reality, living breathing people, who are not unborn fetuses, are already dying unnecessarily on his watch, and he has no intention of doing anything to protect them.
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/21/n-womens-march-finale-las-vegas-rally-kicks-off-voter-drive.html
ReplyDelete"Half a million U.S. teenagers no longer have access to sex education programs. "
ReplyDeleteHave you ever heard the term 'parenting"?
jhc- it is just not that hard to not get pregnant and avoid stds without breaking the bank.
Way to be flippant. Children should suffer because their parents are deluded into thinking their precious little ones wouldn't dream about having sex? Worked so well for the palins
DeleteThis is in kenya,where it is possible the parents do not use birth control!
DeleteTRUE FACTS>"PUBLIC schools are the best opportunity for adolescents to access formal information. "
Delete"When only 13 states in the nation require sex education to be medically accurate, a lot is left up to interpretation in teenage health literacy. Research published by the Public Library of Science External link shows that when sex education is comprehensive, students feel more informed, make safer choices and have healthier outcomes — resulting in fewer unplanned pregnancies and more protection against sexually transmitted diseases and infection.
“Sex education is about life skills,”<THAT~YOURS
https://nursing.usc.edu/blog/americas-sex-education/
'The chart ABOVE compares the legislative policies of all 50 states, including how they mandate specific aspects of sex education like contraception, abstinence and sexual orientation.'
Take a lOOk.
7:12 “Have you ever heard the term 'parenting"?
DeleteHave you met or heard of the Palins?
7:28 AM "This is in kenya,where it is possible the parents do not use birth control!"..... Did you even read the post 7:28 lol.
DeleteProtect boys too>
ReplyDelete"the unidentified wrestler attempted to escape but his assailants ““yanked him back, and they threw him on a bench.”
“One kid held his legs, two other kids held his arms, they put a towel over his head, and one kid said,
‘Let’s p*ss in his mouth’” the accuser recalled."
PEE IN HIS MOUTH
" the attackers told the victim that if he told anyone they would waterboard him again. The sources also stated that the attack was recorded on Snapchat, but then images were gone after 24 hours."
"wrestling coach Travis Peak was questioned, and later called the victim’s family and told them the attack couldn’t have happened because the boys weren’t left alone in the showers long enough." “extreme bullying,” <YA THINK?
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/wyoming-high-school-wrestlers-accused-waterboarding-freshman-teammate-horrific-hazing-attack-report/
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/melania-trump-was-the-first-casualty-of-the-sag-awards-with-a-subtle-shot-from-the-host/
ReplyDeletePS-tHIS tOO:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/ecuador-president-calls-julian-assange-a-problem/
BLM!
ReplyDelete'“personnel matters for which NASA doesn’t provide information,” '
"“My sister Dr. Jeannette Epps has been fighting against oppressive racism and misogynist in NASA and now they are holding her back and allowing a Caucasian Astronaut to take her place!” "
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/nasa-astronauts-brother-blames-racism-for-her-removal/
Oh for Christs sake. EVERYTHING is called racist these days. She is an astronaut! Hello! Does that sound racist? People get re-assigned all the time.
Delete“Outside ‘the system.’”“But, as it’s been said before, maybe what students need is someone who doesn’t yet know all the things you ‘can’t do.’”“The bottom line is simple: Federal education reform efforts have not worked as hoped.”
ReplyDelete'My writings include a 2016 book titled “Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform.”
"Ronald Reagan campaigned on the TOTAL elimination of the department when he defeated President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election." Secretary Margaret Spellings put together the Commission on the Future of Higher Education. That commission positioned the Education Department as the savior of a higher education system that was “threatened by global competitiveness pressures, powerful technological developments, restraints on public finance, and serious structural limitations that cry out for reform.” Secretary DeVos has flipped that particular script."
“Washington bureaucrats and self-styled education ‘experts’ are about as far removed from students as you can get.” Although DeVos sought to temper her message by insisting that she had not come to “impugn anyone’s motives,” her descriptions of the educational bureaucracy were derisive. For instance, she called defenders of the federal role in education “chicken littles” and “sycophants.”
https://theconversation.com/devos-speech-shows-contempt-for-the-agency-she-heads-90424
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zXPXBhiF7A
ReplyDelete'Women's March in Gustavus, Alaska Pop. 588'
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/01/21/large-crowd-attends-womens-march-on-anchorage-in-solidarity-with-national-events/
https://www.facebook.com/EPWomensMarch/photos/a.1569594773155958.1073741830.1561939633921472/1573139199468182/?type=3&theater
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ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaEHFxlmf-k
"In The Tale, Fox takes an experience that’s far, far too common — and newly visible in American culture — and mines it for its emotional heft, turning it into an interrogation of how those who’ve experienced assault and abuse go on to navigate their lives. It is a story of a woman taking her life back, nested in a film serving the same purpose.
ReplyDeleteLike any good memoir, it provides a pathway on which women who’ve had similar experiences might find some space to do the same. The Tale is not easy to watch"
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/22/16920036/the-tale-review-sundance-jennifer-fox-laura-dern-teen-rape
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/22/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-speaks-times-sexually-harassed.html
Delete"“For so long women were silent, thinking there was nothing you could do about it, but now the law is on the side of women, or men, who encounter harassment and that’s a good thing,”"
"She then recalled the sexist treatment she’d been subjected to during her years as a student as well as when she was a law professor. One incident took place while she was a student at Cornell"
"He offered her a practice exam. When it came time to take the test the next day, she realized the professor hadn’t given her a “practice exam” — he’d given the actual exam in advance."
“I knew exactly what he wanted in return,”
FYI
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