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sheshe2

(83,355 posts)
Mon Sep 21, 2015, 08:19 PM Sep 2015

Jane Fonda: My question for the candidates

Last edited Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:00 AM - Edit history (1)



(CNN)Over the past year, the ERA Coalition has launched a renewed campaign to put women into the Constitution. Thursday is Constitution Day, marking the day our Constitution was signed in 1787. Our founders wrongly denied women full citizen status despite the plea some years earlier from Abigail Adams to "remember the ladies."

It took more than 100 years for women to get the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, and nearly a century later women still do not have equal rights under the Constitution. I would like to put a simple yet fundamental question to candidates in the upcoming CNN debate: Do they support the Equal Rights Amendment?

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~Malala



~Gloria Steinem and Kierra Johnson


~Sunny Clifford


The ERA was originally drafted by a Republican woman, Alice Paul. In the campaign for its ratification, the ERA was supported by Republican and Democratic presidents alike: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter. I remember Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter all in Houston in 1977 joining together for women across the country at the National Women's Conference.

We came so very close to success, with ratification by 35 of the 38 states needed, when the deadline expired in 1982.

Today, both parties are courting the women's vote. We have shown that women can make a difference at the polls, and as voters I think we should know where all the candidates stand on constitutional equality for women. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said it is one of her greatest wishes to see the ERA in the Constitution in her lifetime, for the sake of her granddaughters.

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It's time to take a stand and establish the fundamental principle of sex equality in the Constitution. What I want to know from the candidates running for president is whether they stand with us.

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BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
1. Women sometimes have the same problem as men have. Some in our gender are either sociopaths..
Mon Sep 21, 2015, 09:15 PM
Sep 2015

...or not exactly the brightest lights in the room or beaten down by the system..

sheshe2

(83,355 posts)
5. Hmmmm~
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:24 AM
Sep 2015
Women sometimes have the same problem as men have. Some in our gender are either sociopaths..
...or not exactly the brightest lights in the room or beaten down by the system..


Yet men never have the same problem women have. They are never paid less than a woman. Your bodies rights are not regulated by the government. Ours are. So no, we don't suffer the same problems.

FYI you are posting in HoF.

icarusxat

(403 posts)
10. Never say never...
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:37 AM
Sep 2015

Not sure about the pay scale under slavery, or the right not to have your body whipped under that institution...but, I would have to think that someone else had at least 2/5ths more rights than the man subjected to said slavery had...

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
12. My words were meant to point out that the men who are more likely to not support the equilization..
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:48 AM
Sep 2015

..of women/women's rights are the "Problem people" I speak of in my post. And yes, I feel that women have the same problem..of course...being that some women don't "want to get involved in all that feminist stuff" I used the term We to mean that fighting/voting for your (You) rights requires women and men to get with the program and move their ass up to the 21st century.
You took my post in the wrong way, which you should...considering what a lousy deal your gender has had so far.
Cheers.

sheshe2

(83,355 posts)
3. You are so correct.
Mon Sep 21, 2015, 11:53 PM
Sep 2015

And hell yes she would ace it!

Sadly you missed that has been asked, and answered over and over. It is all part of her legacy as a woman.

Would your candidate?

Hillary Clinton talks equal rights at Manhattan ‘Women in the World’ summit, gushes over granddaughter

http://static1.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2197125.1429860488!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/usa-women-world-summit.jpg

Hillary Clinton mixed the stern and the sentimental at a Manhattan women’s forum Thursday, showcasing her revamped campaign-trail tone as she reached out to critically important demographics — and jabbed at her rivals and detractors.

“It is outrageous that America is the only country in the developed world that doesn’t guarantee paid leave to mothers of newborns,” the former Secretary of State said at the sixth annual “Women in the World” summit — before softening moments later to gush over her “most amazing, fabulous, unbelievable granddaughter.”

Democrat Clinton threaded a personal tone through her address at Lincoln Center, using her mother's hard upbringing and her own experiences as a mom and grandmother as the spine of an address that took on the hot-button issues of unequal pay, health care, and “the continuing scourge of sexual assault.”

More http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hillary-clinton-talks-equal-rights-women-forum-summit-article-1.2197129

Hillary Clinton: Women's Rights Are Men's Responsibility, Too



WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says that men are also responsible for advancing rights and opportunities for women around the world.

The former secretary of state says "it's not a women's issue" but, in her words, "a responsibility that we all share."

On Tuesday, Clinton presided over Georgetown University's annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards for Advancing Women in Peace and Security. She says it's not a mistake but a message that all three winners are men.

Clinton is contemplating a run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.

The former first lady says that everyone suffers when women are marginalized and that everyone benefits when women and girls have a chance to participate fully alongside men and boys in all facets of life, including politics.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/hillary-clinton-womens-rights_n_4856091.html

Hillary Clinton's Greatest Speeches on Women



Cha

(295,929 posts)
9. "Hillary Clinton talks equal rights at Manhatten 'Women in the World" summit, gushes over
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:37 AM
Sep 2015
Granddaughter"

Mahalo for the article, she.

We know Hillary's stand on Equal Rights for Women!





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Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
11. I worked on the ERA the last time.....
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:41 AM
Sep 2015

Back when it involved calling state legislatures to push for passage.

It's personal and I am NOT attacking Hillary. I want to know if she will use her political capital to get it done.

It passed the house and the senate and we were just a few states short.

Fill the galleries in state houses with women and DARE the bastards to go on record with a "No" vote.

Cha

(295,929 posts)
6. "Hillary Clinton Wants Constitutional Amendment That Requires Equal Rights For Women"
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:25 AM
Sep 2015

Here's Hillary's answer, Jane. From April 9, 2014..

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton weighed in on a proposed Oregon constitutional amendment that would require equal rights for women, saying Tuesday “it would be nice to be in the constitution.”

Speaking in Portland, the former first lady, New York senator and secretary of state said a debate in Oregon about equal rights might spread beyond the state’s borders.

“Some people say, ‘It’s only symbolic,'” Clinton said. “Well, yes, but symbolism is important.”

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/04/09/hillary-clinton-wants-constitutional-amendment-that-requires-equal-rights-for-women/

Thank you, she! "Both parties are courting the Women's Vote".. but this is how the repubs are going about it.













http://my.democrats.org/Keep-Republicans-Out









sheshe2

(83,355 posts)
7. Your images are broken.
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:34 AM
Sep 2015

I can not see them.

Yet thank you Cha. You have always been a true supporter of woman, as is Hillary.

Thanks, love ya sweets.

Cha

(295,929 posts)
14. Ah, that's too bad you can't see them, she.. I see them perfectly. Maybe they'll load later?
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:54 AM
Sep 2015

Big Graphics saying Scott Walker may be dropping out but his horrible ideas aren't going anywhere.. and it shows pics of all the gop candidates and their big "ideas"..

[font color=red]Attacking Workers

Repealing Obamacare

Opposing a Minimum Wage Increase

Defunding Planned Parenthood
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