Edwards Promotes Women's Rights in NH

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MERRIMACK, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards told high school students Tuesday that the United States has a moral and legal obligation to treat women as equals to men.

During a brief appearance at Merrimack High School, several members of a women's studies class asked the former North Carolina senator to identify and propose solutions to the most prominent issues surrounding women's rights.

Edwards said the issues he has focused on, such as ending poverty and creating universal health care coverage, are women's issues because they affect more women than men.

"I want to be the president who is the most aggressive about enforcing our laws against discrimination against women," he said. "It's about time we actually treat women equally in the United States of America as a moral matter and matter of equality under the law."

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1. Run John Run

True it is the women of the n ation that need the most help, if a man get out of work, he can pick enough on the side, to cover his expense ,that would be so much harder for a woman, especially one with children. I think John being raised in the south , knows that women in the south were always expected to share the weight of the family just as much as our men folk, Roselyn Carter , realized that fact when she was the first lady. She spoke on the subject, I think she said something about Southern women always sharing the part of being bread winner for the family, something like that)