Can Kamala protect women?

[WandsOut]

Seems to be a lot of support for her from female friends but then what about her support for men in women's prisons...

How influenced is she by the current Biden administration? Will she be listening to Rachel Levine? What will she actually do for women if she can't define what a woman is?

If I were American I think I'd probably come to the same conclusion, which is a sign of how seriously I take the threat from Trump. But I think it's delusional to believe the battle for sex based rights can be fought once Harris/Walz are in office. I think we will lose a terrifying amount of ground and I'm not at all sure how we will ever win it back.

My only consolation, as I've already said upthread, is that I think TRA demands will become so insane and narcissistic that eventually the cause will eat itself. But I dread to think what damage will be done in the meantime.

It's an awful, awful choice.

There has been a united Democrat government for only 4 of the last 20 years.

What good would RBG retiring have actually been when the republicans in the Senate blocked Obama’s SC appointment in when a seat came up in February 2016 against all former precedent by claiming that 8 months before an election was tok close to an election to hold hearings. Those same Republicans then pushed through the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett when she was nominated just 38 days before the 2020 election.

Republicans have shat all over the US constitution over the last 8 years.

Reading this thread, after reading about the Tickle v Giggle result and what that means for women in Australia: here's two countries of the Anglosphere where women have been completely screwed over, it makes for very bleak reading.

Kamala will not only fail to protect women, she has been clear she will actively destroy women’s rights and go all out promoting the harmful indoctrination of children in schools and prevent parents from protecting their children.

Trump? That is a different question.

I am with you on everything except late term abortions. Late term abortions are not elective they are for a medical reason. Almost no-one decides at 32 weeks they don't want to continue a pregnancy (a very foolish woman did make this decision in the UK and lied to acquire abortion pills - and was initially (rightly IMO) sent to prison). Late term abortions are for severe abnormalities incompatible with life or in order to save the life of the mother - and also hopefully the child if it is viable. So I would not ban this. I am against elective abortions which have no other reason than that is its an unwanted/inconvenient pregnancy...though I would not ban those either, it is not my right to make someone else's moral/ethical decisions. I am against legalising abortion on demand, not because I don't think women have the right to make such a decision, but because I fear for women being pressurised or forced into making such a decision if there is no brake to support them.
I am not an atheist but I am puzzled as to why having a religion must make you right wing - have they never heard of the early Christians who divided all their goods in common?

I am not an atheist but I am puzzled as to why having a religion must make you right wing - have they never heard of the early Christians who divided all their goods in common?

Some Christians are left wing, some centre, some right. In the UK I would say there are more a lot lot more left wing churches/Christian organisations than right of centre ones. Indeed the influence of ‘liberal progressive’ left can be seen right at the top of the Church of England at the moment causing all sorts of issues and undermining theology. This political bias is different from the liberal/conservative/evangelist belief spectrum. You can be a left wing evangelist or conservative or a right wing liberal.

In the American South though there is a very distinctive right wing Christian belief that is quite different from UK mainstream Christian beliefs. It is one of the things that shows a lack of understanding of the UK by American/American influenced eTRAs.

That's helpful. I agree, the CofE is being so woke it has fallen off its theology, lately. It comes from the top - I would say the very top, too (and I do not mean God).

nypost.com/2024/07/31/us-news/kamala-harris-niece-a-childrens-author-is-producing-dylan-mulvaneys-show-f-ghag/

Ok this all makes sense now. Kamala's niece is close to Dylan Mulvaney and supporting the Edinburgh festival show.

@WandsOut makes sense indeed! Women’s rights are facing significant erosion under a Kamala Harris presidency. I think sometimes women forget how hard won our rights were. If president of the supposed ‘free world’ thinks men can be women and can’t even define what a woman is that does not bode well.