Restrictions On Afghan Girls Will Increase Child Marriages By 25%: UN
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May 2024
• Restrictions On Afghan Girls Will Increase Child
Marriages By 25%: UN
• At Nuh Riots Epicentre, Women Ask, ‘Show Us First
That You Can Help Us, Then We’ll Vote For You’
• Iran Intensifies Crackdown on Hijab Removal, Targets
Young Women
• Instagram Celebrates African Women in ‘Made by
Africa, Loved by the World’ 2024 Campaign
• Hillary Clinton Has Some Tough Words for Democrats,
and for Women
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Restrictions on Afghan Girls Will Increase Child
Marriages By 25%: UN
According To The Joint
Brief Released By UN Agencies, Afghan Women Have Not Given Up Fighting For
Their Right To Live Life With Dignity Despite The Restrictions Imposed On Them
By Taliban | Photo: Shutterstock.Com
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May 26 2024
United Nations agencies have said that the
restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women and girls will increase the number
of child marriages among Afghan girls by 25 per cent, Afghanistan-based TOLO
News reported.
UN Women, the International Organisation for Migration
(IOM), and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) have
released a joint two-page brief. In the brief, the UN agencies have highlighted
the issues faced by Afghan women and their demands of the international
community.
According to the two-page brief, the continuation of
restrictions by Taliban on women and girls will impact child marriages by an
increase of 25 per cent, increase early childbearing by 45 per cent, increase
the risk of maternal mortality by 50 per cent. Currently, 82 per cent of Afghan
women consider their mental health to be bad, according to the brief.
It further noted that Afghanistan is the only nation
in the world that bans girls from studying in schools beyond the sixth class.
Moreover, Afghan women have been banned from attending university, according to
TOLO News report.
According to the joint brief released by UN agencies,
Afghan women have not given up fighting for their right to live life with
dignity despite the restrictions imposed on them by Taliban.
The brief said, "Afghan women are still forming
civil society organisations, still running businesses, and still providing
services to their communities; most importantly, Afghan women have continued to
find ways to make their demands to the international community clear."
In the brief, UN Women, IOM and the UNAMA have said
that Afghan women have urged international community to remain focused on the
situation in Afghanistan and restore the rights of women, including the rights
to education and work, TOLO News reported.
UN Women, the International Organization for Migration
(IOM), and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in the
brief said that Afghan women ask the international community to remain focused
on the situation in Afghanistan and to restore women's rights, including the
rights to education and work, in addition to women's participation in public
decision-making.
Meanwhile, a number of analysts stated that the world
does not have a policy to address these restrictions. Nesar Ahmad Sherzai, a
political analyst, stressed that forced marriages can be considered a very
small part of the obstacles preventing girls from continuing their educaation
"Forced marriages can be considered a very small
part of the obstacles preventing girls from continuing their education, but
what the United Nations Women's Section claims is not like that. The main and
significant obstacles to girls' education are known by the United Nations,
credible international institutions, and major powers, but they are wasting
time. They do not have fundamental and principled work in hand to remove these
limitations from the girls and women of Afghanistan," TOLO News quoted
Nesar Ahmad Sherzai as saying.
Soraya Paikan, a women's rights activist, said,
"Now that school and education have been restricted for girls and they
have been deprived, families are once again forcing their daughters into
marriage against the principles and civil law of Afghanistan, which sets the
minimum age of marriage for girls at 16," TOLO News reported.
Source: Business-Standard
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At Nuh Riots Epicentre, Women Ask, ‘Show Us First That
You Can Help Us, Then We’ll Vote For You’
Women's demands and grievances
surface as parties reach out to them seeking votes. (Express Photo: Aiswarya
Raj)
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by Aiswarya Raj
May 26, 2024
In Nuh’s Badkali Chowk, a loudspeaker blares at a
Nukkad Sabha occupied by men: “Raj Babbar ko vote do,” a woman’s voice
clamours.
Around 15 km away, in Ferozepur Jhirka, a 20-year-old
college student, Wasima Khan, is reaching out to those absent at these rallies
and Nukkad Sabhas: women.
A BCA student and Aam Aadmi Party worker, Wasima is
still new to the party and the electoral process. She will cast her first vote
in this election. Donning a sash with both party symbols – broom and hand —
Khan canvasses for Congress’s Raj Babbar, the INDIA alliance candidate.
In Ward 15, the village where demolitions took place
in August last year, Wasima takes the opportunity when she sees it. “Which
government did this to you? You have seen us come to help you even when we
aren’t in power. What will stop us from coming when we form the government,”
she asks.
In Ferozepur Jhirka, a line of houses was demolished
for allegedly encroaching upon forest land in the wake of Nuh riots. When
Wasima reaches out, women are vocal about their misgivings. “Show us first that
you can help us, then we’ll vote for you,” a woman in her 60s says. Wasima has
her answer ready: “Kejriwal has shown it in two states where AAP rule. Trust
us, elections happen every five years, you can pull us up if we fail to
deliver,” she says.
At Dhond village, concerns raised by women are
different. Kallo (80) claims that a police team raided their house and
ransacked their kitchen on suspicion that a buffalo was slaughtered. “We were
cooking chicken then and the police brandished their lathis. They told us they
would follow Yogi’s example if we slaughtered buffaloes. It is not even
illegal, but after the riots, police come to terrorise us. The law against cow
slaughter has always been in force, but this is gundagardi,” she added.
Radhey Shyam, the SHO of Ferozepur Jhirka police
station and whose name Kallo mentioned, denied the allegations. Kallo tells the
AAP team, “My vote is for hand (Congress), you don’t have to waste your time
here.”
Wasima joined the party in January after attending
national convener Arvind Kejriwal’s rally in Jind. That was the first time she
stepped foot outside Nuh. “I wanted to attend his Kurukshetra rally last week,
but I had my semester exam on the day,” she says, miffed.
In Sidhrawat village, Wasima and Wasim are joined by
another AAP worker, Chanda (35). Formerly with the BJP, she joined AAP a few
months ago and has been campaigning for the party since then. In the same
village, a group of women surround the two women and start listing out their
problems — water and electricity being their major woes. Rahila (35) says that
in her 40-member house, they purchase two tankers, each worth Rs 2,000. “We
have borewells, but the water is saline and we cannot even use it to bathe at
times. On top of it, our electricity bill for two months is around Rs 10,000,”
she adds. Rahila gets a bottle of water and brings it to Wasima. She drinks a
sip and spits it out. “This is what we have in our borewells,” Rahila
complains.
“Hindus don’t need convincing and we have counted them
in, but at Muslim homes, they ask us about various schemes and issues, we have
tried to win them over,” says 53-year-old Mamta, who is an anganwadi worker.
She added that while charting their outreach programme, the party had asked
them to focus on the Hindu votes in Mewat region.
At Sunita Devi’s house in Nuh, the woman says that
though the major problems are water and electricity in summers but the election
was about who comes to power at the Centre. “As a Hindu woman, I feel safer
now. Earlier, safety was not an issue, but Nuh riots left us scared,”
57-year-old Devi said.
At Kherla, the families living next to Arif Hatori,
the sarpanch affiliated with the BJP, have been consistently voting for the
party. Though Arif says certain speeches by Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath have
hurt the sentiments of Muslim population, he says he has been able to convince
700 voters of the total 3,500 eligible voters in the village to cast their
franchise for the party.
Rabina, a housewife, votes for the party her husband
Khalid tells her. The Kherla resident, who does not know her age and is
illiterate, voices the same concerns of women in Ferozepur Jhirka. “We pitch in
a lot just to get water from tankers. There is no water here and borewells have
also been futile. We are torn between water tankers or we will have to bring
them from a few km away, which is also impractical most of the time,” she says,
pointing at a large blue barrel and a few small tanks.
In Nuh, Neha Khan, vice-president of Mewat Youth
Congress unit, has been immensely popular, both offline and online. “A smear
campaign has been set against me by the youth alleging I roam around, sit with
men, wear certain clothes and even for getting detained while protesting, but
many people are supportive as there have not been many women in politics from
the region,” she says.
A PG student at a private college in Gurgaon, the
26-year-old has been dividing her time between campaigning for Raj Babbar and
taking semester exams. With over 30,000 followers on Facebook and Instagram, Neha
says the issues she primarily sees in Nuh are around education, especially of
women. “I was the only girl in my class, which has a strength of 60, at
Government College, Nagina. Though I didn’t face any difficulty, it was lonely,
and even boys don’t attend classes. This is when Nuh only has a few government
colleges. The district does not have a university and the handful of colleges
are either affiliated with Gurgaon University or MD University in Rohtak,” Neha
says, putting on a hijab to cover her frizzy hair with bleach-blonde streaks.
Neha is the oldest of five daughters in her family and
her sisters are pursuing higher studies at Delhi’s Jamia Hamdard University.
“Over the past 10 years, Mewatis have been punished for electing Congress MLAs.
There has not been any addition to the infrastructure in the district,” she
says, adding that this is the biggest problem in Mewat.
Source: Indianexpress
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/nuh-women-voters-9351822/
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Iran Intensifies Crackdown on Hijab Removal, Targets
Young Women
26-05-2024
Hossein Hosseini, the Chief Justice of Iran’s
Kordestan Province, has announced the establishment of a specialized branch at
the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court specifically designed to handle cases of hijab
removal.
Hosseini revealed that "a significant portion of
those who commit hijab removal are under the ages of 15 and 18,"
highlighting the state's focus on penalizing young women.
The initiative is part of the broader Project Noor,
which has ramped up enforcement of the Islamic Republic’s hijab laws, leading
to increased violent confrontations on the streets as authorities clamp down on
Iranian women. The forceful approach has sparked renewed global outrage.
Hosseini categorized individuals who remove their
hijab into three groups: the first receives only a verbal warning for
unintentional non-compliance; the second, includes those seen as encouraging
others to unveil and are actively pursued by the authorities; the third group
involves individuals accused of systematically challenging hijab, targeted by
security and intelligence forces for organized defiance.
The newly launched court branch shows Iran's decision
to criminalize what it perceives as “acts of rebellion” against its “moral
codes,” particularly focusing on the youth. This strategy reflects the
government’s desperation to assert control amid growing internal and
international criticism.
Further unsettling reports have surfaced since the
implementation of Project Noor, detailing police misconduct, including
extortion, theft, andsexual harassment by officers tasked with enforcing hijab
compliance. Such accusations exacerbate the already volatile relationship
between the public and the police, eroding trust and stoking fears among the
population.
Global human rights organizations, student bodies, and
activists are vocally condemning such measures, highlighting the infringement
on basic human rights and personal freedoms in Iran.
Source: Iranintl
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202405259860
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Instagram Celebrates African Women in ‘Made by Africa,
Loved by the World’ 2024 Campaign
May 25, 2024
In celebration of Africa Day on May 25, Instagram has
launched its international and pan-African campaign ‘Made By Africa, Loved by
the World’. In a first, this year’s Instagram campaign celebrates women of impact,
spotlighting four trailblazing women from the continent and diaspora – all of
whom have built a global presence through their exceptional talents and
passions across sports, entertainment and music.
Now in its fourth year, the women featured in this year’s
2024 campaign hail from Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and for the first time
Egypt. EniolaAluko, BontleModiselle, Victoria Kimani and Tasneem Elaidy tell
their inspiring stories in four beautiful short films highlighting their
successes, challenges and passions. Shot in collaboration with five rising
filmmakers, Haya Khairat from Egypt, Michael Rodriques from South Africa,
NyashaKadandara from Kenya and London based Nigerian Aaliyah Mckay alongside
co-director Shehroze Khan, these films amplify the unique voices and stories of
women who are changing the way Africa is viewed on the international stage.
As part of the campaign, Instagram is also partnering
with local African content creators to
host the third edition of its community challenge, ‘#ShareYourAfrica,’
bringing together emerging and established content creators to create a
movement and celebrate what it means to be African.
Speaking about the campaign, KeziaAnim-Addo,
Communications Director, Africa, Middle East & Turkey (AMET) at Meta, said,
“For the fourth year running, we’re incredibly excited to shine a spotlight and
celebrate just some of the amazing women from across the continent and beyond,
who are having a remarkable impact globally. These are women who are
contributing to positively shaping the female African narrative and inspiring
change across football, music, entertainment and culture. At Instagram, we’re
deeply rooted in culture and connection, and we know our platform provides the
perfect space to showcase passions and creativity, whilst inspiring a worldwide
audience.”
Meet the stars of ‘Made by Africa and Loved by the
World’ 2024:
● BontleModiselle (South Africa): An award-winning
dancer and influential figure in the South African entertainment industry,
Bontle has won numerous awards, including a ‘Africa Movie Academy Award’ and
has travelled the world showcasing her impressive dance skills
● EniolaAluko (Nigeria): A trailblazer in women’s
football whose contributions to the women’s game has made her a significant
figure in the world of sports. Eniola has played for some of the world’s
leading football clubs, and recently made history by becoming the first African
female to make the board of Italy’s female top-flight football club FC Como
Women.
● Victoria Kimani (Kenya): A singer, songwriter and
entertainer known for her distinctive blend of R&B, Afropop and Hip-Hop.
Victoria has carved a successful path in the African music scene and beyond,
collaborating with well-known local and global artists, and was once referred
to by the Grammy Awards as ‘Kenya’s Best Kept Secret’.
● Tasneem Elaidy (Egypt): A singer and songwriter with
strong vocals whose songs have earned her international recognition, Tasneem
started out on social media, releasing cover songs and original music. She went
viral after releasing her version of a popular song and today, she has a
growing audience of nearly 2 million followers on Instagram, 3 million on
TikTok and over 100 million combined views for her music!
Source: Dailynews Egypt
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Hillary Clinton Has Some Tough Words for Democrats,
and for Women
May 26, 2024
Hillary Clinton criticized her fellow Democrats over
what she described as a decades-in-the-making failure to protect abortion
rights, saying in her first extended interview about the fall of Roe v. Wade
that her party underestimated the growing strength of anti-abortion forces
until many Democrats were improbably “taken by surprise” by the landmark Dobbs
decision in 2022.
In wide-ranging and unusually frank comments, Mrs.
Clinton said Democrats had spent decades in a state of denial that a right
enshrined in American life for generations could fall — that faith in the
courts and legal precedent had made politicians, voters and officials unable to
see clearly how the anti-abortion movement was chipping away at abortion
rights, restricting access to the procedure and transforming the Supreme Court,
until it was too late.
“We didn’t take it seriously, and we didn’t understand
the threat,” Mrs. Clinton said. “Most Democrats, most Americans, did not
realize we are in an existential struggle for the future of this country.”
Mrs. Clinton’s comments came in an interview conducted
in late February for a forthcoming book, “The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New
America.”
The interview represented Mrs. Clinton’s most detailed
comments on abortion rights since the Supreme Court decision that led to the
procedure becoming criminalized or restricted in 21 states. She said not only
that her party was complacent but also that if she had been in the Senate at
the time she would have worked harder to block confirmation of Trump-appointed
justices.
And in a blunt reflection about the role sexism played
in her 2016 presidential campaign, she said women were the voters who abandoned
her in the final days because she was not “perfect.” Overhanging the interview
was the understanding that had she won the White House, Roe most likely would
have remained a bedrock feature of American life. She assigned blame for the
fall of Roe broadly but pointedly, and notably spared herself from the
critique.
Even when they held control of Congress, Democrats
were unwilling to pass legislation codifying abortion rights into federal law.
While frequently mentioned in passing to rally their base during election
season, the issue rarely rose to the top of their legislative or policy agenda.
Many Democrats, including President Biden, often refused even to utter the
word.
Until Roe fell, many in the party believed the federal
right to an abortion was all but inviolable, unlikely to be reversed even by a
conservative Supreme Court. The sense of denial extended to the highest ranks
of the party — but not, Mrs. Clinton argued, to her.
“One thing I give the right credit for is they never
give up,” she said. “They are relentless. You know, they take a loss, they get
back up, they regroup, they raise more money.” She added: “It’s tremendously
impressive the way that they operate. And we have nothing like it on our side.”
Louisiana: Lawmakers in Louisiana passed legislation
to make the state the first in the nation to designate abortion pills as
dangerous controlled substances.
Missouri and South Dakota: Both states, which have
near-total abortion bans, are poised to have citizen-sponsored measures on the
ballot this year that would allow voters to reverse those bans.
Arizona: Lawmakers in Arizona repealed an abortion ban
from 1864. The vote was the culmination of a fevered effort to scrap the law
that has made abortion a central focus of Arizona’s politics.
Florida: The state’s six-week abortion ban, which is
now in effect, was part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s push into cultural conservatism.
But Florida politics is rarely that simple.
Mrs. Clinton did not express regret for any inaction
herself. Rather, she said her efforts to raise alarms during her 2016 campaign
went unheeded and were dismissed as “alarmist” by voters, politicians and
members of her own party. In that race, she had talked about the threats to
abortion rights on the campaign trail and most memorably in the third
presidential debate, vowing to protect Roe when Mr. Trump promised to appoint
judges who would overturn it.
But even then, internal campaign polling and focus
groups showed that the issue did not resonate strongly with key groups of
voters, because they did not believe Roe was truly at risk.
Now, as the country prepares to face its third
referendum on Mr. Trump, she offered a stark warning about the 2024 election. A
second Trump administration would go far beyond abortion rights to target
women’s health care, gay rights, civil rights — and even the core tenets of
American democracy itself, she said.
“This election is existential. I mean, if we don’t
make the right decision in this election in our country, we may never have
another actual election. I will put that out there because I believe it,” she
said. “And if we no longer have another actual election, we will be governed by
a small minority of right-wing forces that are well organized and well funded
and are getting exactly what they want in terms of turning the clock back on
women.”
Mrs. Clinton described those forces and her former
opponent as part of “global phenomena” restricting women’s rights, pointing to
a push by Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, pressing women to focus on raising
children; the violent policing of women who violate Iran’s conservative dress
code; and what she described as the misogyny of President Vladimir V. Putin of
Russia.
“Authoritarians, whether they be political or
religious based, always go after women. It’s just written in the history. And that’s
what will happen in this country,” Mrs. Clinton said.
But she also seemed to expect that many would dismiss
her concerns once again. “Oh, my God, there she goes again,” she said,
describing what she anticipated would be the reaction to her interview. “I
mean, she’s just so, you know, so out there.”
But she added: “I know history will prove me right.
And I don’t take any comfort in that because that’s not the kind of country or
world I want for my grandchildren.”
Her life encapsulates what could be seen as the Roe
era in American life. She embodies the professional and personal changes that
swept the lives of American women over the past half-century. Roe was decided
in 1973, the same year Mrs. Clinton graduated from law school. Its fall was
accelerated in 2016 by her loss to Donald J. Trump, which set in motion a
transformation of the Supreme Court.
Had Mrs. Clinton won the White House in 2016, history
would have turned out very differently. She would most likely have appointed
two or even three justices to the Supreme Court, securing an abortion-rights
legal majority that probably would have not only upheld Roe but also delivered
rulings that expanded access to the procedure.
Along with her prediction for the future, Mrs. Clinton
offered a detailed assessment of the past. For her, the meaning of the ruling
in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was clear — and devastating.
“It says that we are not equal citizens,” she said,
referring to women. “It says that we don’t have autonomy, agency and privacy to
make the most personal of decisions. It says that we should be rethinking our
lives and our roles in the world.”
She blasted Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who wrote the
Supreme Court’s majority opinion in the case, saying his decision was
“terrible,” “poorly reasoned” and “historically inaccurate.”
Mrs. Clinton accused four justices — John G. Roberts
Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — of being “teed
up to do the bidding” of conservative political and religious organizations and
leaders — though she believed many Democrats had not realized that during those
justices’ confirmation hearings.
“It is really hard to believe that people are going to
lie to you under oath, that even so-called conservative justices would upend
precedents to arrive at ridiculous decisions on gun rights and campaign finance
and abortion,” she said. “It’s really hard to accept that.”
Yet, she also had tough words for her former
colleagues. In the Senate, she said, Democratic lawmakers did not push hard
enough to block the confirmation of the justices who would go on to overturn
federal abortion rights. When asked in confirmation hearings if they believed
Roe was settled law, the nominees noted that Roe was precedent and largely
avoided stating their opinion on the decision.
Those justices “all lied in their confirmation
hearings,” she said, referring to Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney
Barrett, all of whom were appointed by Mr. Trump. “They just flat-out lied. And
Democrats did nothing in the Senate.”
It is unclear how Democrats could have stopped those
justices from reaching the bench given that they did not control the Senate
during their confirmation hearings. When Mr. Trump took office, Republicans
also had unified control of 24 state legislatures, making it all but impossible
for Democrats to stop conservatives from pushing through increasingly
restrictive laws.
“I just think that most of us who support the rights
of women and privacy and the right to make these difficult decisions yourself,
you know, we just couldn’t believe what was happening. And as a result, they
slowly, surely and very effectively got what they wanted,” she said. “Our side
was complacent and kind of taking it for granted and thinking it would never go
away.”
From the time she arrived in Washington as first lady,
Mrs. Clinton fought openly for abortion rights. She famously declared that
“human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights” in a
1995 speech at the World Conference on Women in Beijing. When she became a
senator, Mrs. Clinton voted against the partial-birth abortion ban, unlike more
than a dozen of her fellow Democrats. As Barack Obama’s secretary of state, she
made a mission of expanding women’s reproductive health across the globe.
In 2016, Planned Parenthood endorsed her candidacy,
the first time the organization waded into a presidential primary. In her
campaign, Mrs. Clinton promised to appoint judges who would preserve Roe,
opposed efforts in Congress to pass a 20-week abortion ban and pushed for the
repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which banned the federal funding of abortions.
Even her language was updated. For years, when it came
to abortion, she championed her belief in a phrase popularized by her husband
during his 1992 presidential campaign: “safe, legal and rare.”
In a private, previously unreported meeting recounted
in the book, campaign aides told Mrs. Clinton to drop the phrase during her
2016 run. Her staff explained that increasingly progressive abortion-rights
activists thought calling for the procedure to be “rare” would offer a
political concession to the anti-abortion movement. And with so many new
restrictions being passed in conservative-controlled states, abortion was
increasingly difficult to obtain, particularly for poorer women, making “rare”
the wrong focus for their message. Abortion should be “safe, legal, accessible
and affordable,” they told her.
In the interview, Mrs. Clinton said she quickly came
to embrace the shift in language. What she and other Democrats had tried to do
in 1992 with “safe, legal and rare” was “send a signal that we understand Roe
v. Wade has a certain theory of the case about trimesters,” she explained. But
by 2016, the world had changed.
“Too many women, particularly too many young women did
not understand the effort that went into creating the underlying theory of Roe
v. Wade. And the young women on my campaign made a very compelling argument
that making it safe and legal was really the goal,” she said. “I kind of just
pocketed the framework of Roe.”
When she delivered a speech in Wisconsin in March
2016, arguing that Supreme Court justices selected by Mr. Trump could “demolish
pillars of the progressive movement,” Mrs. Clinton said that “people kind of
rolled their eyes at me.”
Mrs. Clinton said she saw her defeat in that election
as inextricable from her gender. As she has in the past, she blamed the former
F.B.I. director James Comey’s last-minute reopening of the investigation of her
private email server for her immediate defeat. Mr. Comey had raised questions
about her judgment and called her “extremely careless” but recommended no
criminal charges. Other political strategists have faulted her message,
strategy and various missteps by her campaign for her loss in 2016.
“But once he did that to me, the people, the voters
who left me, were women,” she said. “They left me because they just couldn’t
take a risk on me, because as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect. They were
willing to take a risk on Trump — who had a long list of, let’s call them
flaws, to illustrate his imperfection — because he was a man, and they could
envision a man as president and commander in chief.”
Mrs. Clinton said she was shocked by how little the
reports of Mr. Trump’s sexual misconduct and assault seemed to affect the race.
They did not disqualify him from the presidency, at least not among most
Republicans and conservative Christians. But his promises to appoint justices
that would reverse Roe helped him win, she said.
Source: Nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/us/politics/hillary-clinton-abortion.html
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