05 September 2008

From OneWorld.com comes word that VP nominee Sarah Palin is unacceptable, at least according to a number of feminists.

The new republican VP nominee is anti-choice, anti-affirmative action for women, and doesn't support the Violence Against Women act authored by rival Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden, according to reports.

OneWorld.com reports the following:

Her ultra-conservative stance on issues like abortion, sex education, gay marriage, gun control, and the environment indicate that her candidacy is in fact an entreaty to the country's social conservatives, they are saying.

President of the Feminist Majority Foundation, Eleanor Smeal, says Palin has a "zero rating with women's rights groups".  Smeal gives a laundry list of problems with Palin's stances on the issues. Issues. Remember those?

Smeal says Palin "stands with John McCain, who is opposed to affirmative action for women in public employment public education and public contracting". She continues, "[Palin] is opposed to legislation fighting wage discrimination for women (the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play Act)".

Palin, according to reports and Smeal, is also opposed to the Violence Against Women Act which was authored by Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Marcy Bloom, executive director of Aradia Women's Health Center in Seattle says of Palin:

As would be expected, Sarah Palin also opposes medically accurate sexuality education programs and stated in 2006 that "she would fund [only] ‘abstinence-until-marriage' education.
(see article )

Abstinence-only education didn't even work in her own family. Why in hell does she think it would work in schools?

Palin's views on not just being anti-choice, but advocating for the law to be overturned, is also a huge sore spot with a large majority of women. She is anti-choice even in cases of rape and incest.

In other words, Palin wants to be able to make decisions for you and your family about issues which she has recently said are private when it comes to her own family.

Palin has yet to explain why it should legal for the government (or her) to make a rape victim give birth to her rapist's child -- or to give birth to her own brother/sister in cases of incest -- but the public should stay out of her own family's personal decisions.

How somebody thought the Palin pick was supposed to get Clinton voters is beyond me. As the new saying goes: You, madam, are no Hillary Clinton.