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Trump brags that his new regulation enables taxpayer-funded religious discrimination against LGBT people, women

At Thursday’s National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden at the White House President Donald Trump bragged to the faithful that thanks to him new conscience rights protections have been implemented today for “for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students and faith-based charities.”

Those “conscience rights” actually are designed to allow medical and education professionals, charities, and others, to refuse service to, and refuse to work with or do business with those people they hold a religious or moral objection to.

Among the Americans who will be discriminated against by the President’s new regulations are LGBTQ people, women seeking abortions, women seeking contraception products and services (even if not for abortion), same-sex couples, unmarried couples, and others.

View the complete May 2 article by David Badash from The New Civil Rights Movement on the AlterNet website here.

Republicans Are Trying To Kill An LGBT Bill In Congress By Arguing It Hurts Women

“Women, lesbians, and families become the collateral damage.”

An LGBT rights bill needs to die — to help women.

That was the message Republicans brought to a rowdy congressional hearing on Tuesday, when conservative lawmakers and think tanks denounced the nondiscrimination bill with increasingly uniform charges of sexism.

The bill’s protections for transgender people, they contend, advance a “radical gender ideology” that will erase and victimize women.

“Women, lesbians, and families become the collateral damage of identity politics,” said Republican Doug Collins of Georgia, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.

View the complete April 2 article by Dominic Holden on the BuzzFeed News website here.

Boogeywomen — GOP vilifies big-name female Dems

The following article by Melanie Zanona was posted on the Hill website August 18, 2018:

Republicans have made attacks on high-profile Democratic women a key part of their strategy for holding onto congressional majorities.

The GOP aims to cast rank-and-file Democrats as puppets of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and other Democratic boogeymen, calculating that suburban and rural voters won’t want to replace their Republican lawmakers with Democrats beholden to the party’s power brokers.

But while those tactics fire up President Trump’s conservative base, it risks turning off the suburban and college-educated women seen as crucial voting blocs in the fall — especially since so many of the GOP targets happen to be women.

View the complete article here.

Women and independents drive advantage for Democrats ahead of midterm elections, Post-ABC poll finds

The following article by Scott Clement was posted on the Washington Post website January 22, 2018:

A Post-ABC poll released Jan. 22, found Democrats have an advantage ahead of 2018 congressional elections. (Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post)

Strong support from women and independents is fueling Democrats’ large early advantage ahead of this year’s congressional elections, a sign that two groups that have recoiled from Donald Trump’s presidency will play a decisive role in November, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The ongoing government shutdown and rising economic optimism are just two factors that could shuffle preferences over the nine months before Election Day, with Republicans hoping to take more credit for economic growth and cast Democrats as anti-Trump obstructionists. Continue reading “Women and independents drive advantage for Democrats ahead of midterm elections, Post-ABC poll finds”

Do women matter to international security? Trump just changed the U.S. government’s answer to that question.

The following article by Hilary Matfess was posted on the Washington Post website January 4, 2018:

Congolese women and their children, who fled from rebel group attacks, work in a field farmed with the help of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Tshikapa in the Kasai Region, Congo, in July. (AFP/Getty Images)

Does the status of women elsewhere in the world matter to U.S. national security? On Dec. 19, President Trump released his answer in the latest National Security Strategy (NSS), one of his first opportunities to outline what an “America First” foreign policy will look like.

While there are several notable changes from those released by previous administrations, one of the most striking is the sharp turn away from recent policies — backed by a significant amount of research — that treat the well-being of women around the globe as critical to peace and prosperity.

A short history of the U.S. government’s position on women, peace and security Continue reading “Do women matter to international security? Trump just changed the U.S. government’s answer to that question.”