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Thursday, 04/19/2018 12:37:39 AM

Thursday, April 19, 2018 12:37:39 AM

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Yup, I like what is going on despite all the roadblocks and constant resistance to what Trump wants to do.

How do you like your irony? Rare, medium or Melania????

At UN, Trump officials.. pushed the idea that women should be expected to observe lifelong chastity

Here we are--Trump pushing idea for women from the 1800s!! Damn

Trump officials used closed door-meetings to push the idea that women should be expected to observe lifelong chastity, except for the rare occasion that they intend to make babies.



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Trump officials used closed door-meetings to push the idea that women should be expected to observe lifelong chastity, except for the rare occasion that they intend to make babies. https://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/un-meeting-trump-administration-abstinence?utm_term=.vu6jMOLdbg#.ck5Z493OG6

Members of HHS, USAID, and the US Mission to the UN asked for references to contraception, abortion, and comprehensive sex education to be struck from a document on international gender equality, calling the US a "pro-life nation."
Originally posted on April 17, 2018, at 12:11 p.m.

Updated on April 17, 2018, at 1:15 p.m.

In closed-door meetings at the United Nations in March, Trump administration officials pushed socially conservative views on women’s rights issues — including abstinence-based policies over information about contraception — that were further to the right than those expressed by most other countries present, including Russia and the representative for the Arab states, UN officials who attended the meetings told BuzzFeed News.

The Trump officials’ approach at the UN meeting makes it clear that the administration intends to extend its views on abortion, contraception, and sexual education beyond US borders to an extent that is unusual even for Republican administrations.

The comments came during the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women, a two-week session described by a spokesperson for the US Mission to the United Nations as the UN’s “most important meeting on women’s empowerment.” The main event is a closed-door negotiation on language to include in an annual UN document that sets global standards and outlines potential policies pertaining to gender equality efforts in all member countries.

Early in this series of meetings, Bethany Kozma — a senior adviser for gender equality and women’s empowerment at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and anti-transgender activist — emphasized that the US was a “pro-life nation,” sparking a strong reaction from delegates in the room, two officials in the room confirmed to BuzzFeed News.

“When she said that there was sort of a record scratch and silence,” one UN official who participated in the negotiations but asked not to be named so as to maintain a working relationship with the other member states present told BuzzFeed News. “Everyone was like, ‘are you kidding me?’”

Shannon Kowalski, the director of the International Women’s Health Coalition, said that the Trump administration’s stances on women’s health presented in the meeting were “further to the right” than they were at last year’s commission, or even under George W. Bush’s administration. While the Bush administration implemented anti-abortion policies abroad, the scope was limited to family planning programs. Trump’s policies already expand beyond those limits................
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210512920

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