Tag: Abortion

Mike Pence’s New Neighborhood Gets Plastered With ‘Trust Women’ Signs

Posted on December 27, 2016January 2, 2017 by Kelly Dittmar

Emma Gray, Huffington Post – December 27, 2016

Vice President-elect Mike Pence recently rented a home in DC’s Chevy Chase neighborhood. Soon after he moved in, residents of the area began hanging rainbow flags in his neighborhood in solidarity with the LGBGTQ community. (Pence has a notable history of supporting legislation that results in LGBTQ discrimination.) Now the neighborhood has embraced another symbol of quiet resistance by putting up “This neighborhood trusts women” signs, supplied by reproductive rights organization, NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Trump Said Women Get Abortions Days Before Birth. Doctors Say They Don’t.

Posted on October 20, 2016December 4, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Pam Belluck, New York Times – October 20, 2016

In the presidential debate Wednesday night, Donald J. Trump expounded on pregnancy and abortion, asserting that under current abortion law, “You can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month, on the final day.” Doctors say the scenario Mr. Trump described does not occur.

Clinton’s Unapologetic Defense of Abortion Rights

Posted on October 20, 2016December 4, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic – October 20, 2016

Even in a presidential campaign that has become so intensely focused on gender, there was something surreal about watching Hillary Clinton’s response to a question about abortion in Wednesday night’s debate. Here was the first woman nominated by a major party for the United States presidency, standing on the debate stage in “suffragette white,” and talking in no uncertain terms about her strong commitment to protecting a woman’s right to “make the most intimate, most difficult in many cases, decisions about her health care that one can imagine.”

Hillary Clinton Speaks About Women in a Way No Presidential Candidate Ever Has

Posted on October 20, 2016October 30, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan – October 20, 2016

Last night, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton didn’t so much play the gender card as simply show up on the debate stage a woman. What a difference it highlighted between her and her opponent. And how incredible it was to hear a female candidate talk about women’s issues not as abstractions, but as deeply personal, as fundamentally normal, and just as universal as men’s experiences.

Hillary Clinton’s Debate Answer on Abortion is Why We Need More Women in Politics

Posted on October 19, 2016December 7, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Christina Cauterucci, Slate – October 19, 2016

Finally, for the first time in their presidential debates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off on abortion on Wednesday night. As one would expect from a candidate who’s not quite sure what he thinks about the procedure, Trump stumbled over his response. He claimed he’d nominate pro-life justices to the Supreme Court but refused to say whether he’d wish to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Mike Pence has Own Woes with Women

Posted on October 8, 2016October 11, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Tom LoBianco and Eric Bradner, CNN – October 8, 2016

Mike Pence has emerged as a popular alternative for top Republicans looking to replace Donald Trump as the party’s presidential nominee, but the Indiana governor’s own record with women could make it a short-lived courtship that doesn’t change the result in November.

Abortion Returns to the Debate

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Emma Green, The Atlantic – October 5, 2016

In a debate filled with yelling and interruptions, it was the moment when Tim Kaine and Mike Pence finally got quiet: They were talking about their struggles with faith. Kaine spoke about having to preside over executions while he was governor of Virginia, even though he’s morally opposed to the death penalty. Pence, however, turned the question around and brought up an issue no moderator has dared to ask about: abortion.

Trump Steps Up Anti-Abortion Stance, Taps Dannenfelser

Posted on September 16, 2016September 17, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Rebecca Berg, Real Clear Politics – September 16, 2017

With less than two months until Election Day, Donald Trump is ramping up his outreach to a reliable Republican constituency: anti-abortion advocates. Trump plans to name a Pro-Life Coalition on Friday, RealClearPolitics has learned, with Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser as its national chairwoman. The GOP nominee will also adopt a new pledge to protect the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits Medicaid funding for most abortions — a law Democrat Hillary Clinton opposes.

Abortion and Gay Marriage Are Absent from Donald Trump’s Appeal to Evangelicals

Posted on September 9, 2016September 11, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, New York Times – September 9, 2016

Donald J. Trump pleaded Friday with Christian conservatives to rally to his candidacy, but in a high-profile speech to evangelicals made no mention of issues of central importance to them, like abortion, same-sex marriage and Israel.

Hillary Clinton Denounces Donald Trump as Untrustworthy on Women’s Issues

Posted on June 10, 2016June 11, 2016 by Kelly Dittmar

Alan Rappeport, New York Times – June 10, 2016

Hillary Clinton assailed Donald J. Trump on Friday as untrustworthy on women’s issues, sharpening her tone against him in her first major speech since becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Finally free to focus on the general election, Mrs. Clinton signaled that she planned to hit her likely Republican opponent in an area of perceived weakness while working to mend fissures within her own party by focusing on issues dear to progressives, such as protecting abortion rights and funding for Planned Parenthood.

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