In the video clip below, Rep. Chris Smith (R-New Jersey) conveniently forgets that the esteemed founding fathers of this nation were racists and misogynists too.
To this day, the hallowed U.S. Constitution is full of racist and sexist language, but never mind that. What's important is that Margaret Sanger was racist and how dare Hillary Rodham Clinton have anything whatsoever to do with Planned Parenthood!! The nerve of the woman!
I guess that's why women can't get into the history books. The Foremothers were just too racist. And if we removed a few racist founding fathers from the history texts? There might at long last be room for a few women of all color.
Needless to say, Secretary Clinton puts the sanctimonious male supremacist and hypocritical blathering fool in his place.
Michelle Goldberg: THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST SECRETARY OF STATE LOOKS LIKE -- Given all the taboos, controversy, and hypocrisy that have surrounded abortion as an international public-health issue, this was an amazingly brave statement:
When I think about the suffering that I have seen, of women around the world. I’ve been in hospitals in Brazil, where half the women were enthusiastically and joyfully greeting new babies, and the other half were fighting for their lives against botched abortions. I’ve been in African countries where 12 and 13-year-old girls are bearing children. I have been in Asian countries where the denial of family planning consigns women to lives of oppression and hardship. So we have a very fundamental disagreement. . We happen to think that family planning is an important part of women’s health, and reproductive health includes access to abortion, that I believe should be safe, legal and rare.
-- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Jodi Jacobson at RH Reality Check:
Clinton's statement was certainly the most courageous a Secretary of State--or any Administration official--has ever made on reproductive rights and one of the most courageous statements made by a Secretary of State of any kind, on any issue, ever, because it was made in the face of over 20 years of political silence on the issue. And it was made about an issue made increasingly taboo by the very stigma and silence that people like Smith have worked so hard to perpetuate.
Yesterday, today, tomorrow, and hopefully for years to come as Secretary of State, Clinton is and will be a heroine to women throughout the world and a path-breaking leader in an Administration that continues to make history.
TGW -- Hillary: Reproductive Health Includes Access to Abortion (Video)
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