Recently, some republican G.O.P leaders and Rush Limbaugh have been attacking women, and now Hilary Clinton is fighting back. Clinton has fought for women’s rights around the world. Now she has to fight for women’s rights at home. On Saturday she was at the Women in the World Summit and she said, “Why extremist always focus on women remains a mystery to me. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim. They want to control women. They want to control how we dress. They want to control how we act. They even want to control the decisions we make about our own health” (NYTimes). Since Clinton is the Secretary of State, she is not supposed to be in domestic politics, but she felt that the whole situation has gotten out of hand and someone needed to address the issue.
The article makes the argument that the Republican men are trying to, “…wrestle American women back into chastity belts…And that could turn out to be the most dangerous thing the wildly self-destructive G.O.P. leaders have done” (NYTimes). The republicans are harassing
the very same women that helped them gain control of the House in 2010. A female Republican senator, Olympia Snowe, is leaving Congress and she told The Washington Post that, “it feels as if we are going back to another era” (NYTimes). She also warns that the republicans are driving women into Democratic arms.
After the response of Republican candidates and Limbaugh calling a female law student a prostitute and a slut, and calling Clinton the “sex-retary of state”, do you feel that because of the recent attacks that the country is digressing? And will the attacks skew the votes?
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