There was a lot to digest this past election and even providing an executive summary of the events that occurred would be a painstaking task.
What stuck out to me like a sore thumb this election was the Republican party's complete and unrelenting insistence on putting the woman's right to make the best decision for her life on the ballot.
Had Mitt Romney and friends had of won this election, women would have faced a serious setback in decades of progress for women rights and issues. Romney wasn't interested in equal pay for women, he would overturn Roe v. Wade and force women to have the baby of their rapists in addition to ending funding to programs like Planned Parenthood which provides essential services for thousands of young women.
Phew.
We dodged a bullet.
Though the war isn't over. We must move to make sure that the rights of women, basic human rights never become ballot issues again. Not only is it wrong, its offensive. Let's do better.
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