One of Bernie Sanders’ talking points is that women around the world have the right to have abortions and use family planning methods.
He is being smeared as a “eugenicist” for these common sense observations.
“And the answer has everything to do with the fact that women in the United States of America, by the way, have a right to control their own bodies and make reproductive decisions. The Mexico City agreement, which denies American aid to those organizations around the world that allow women to have abortions or even get involved in birth control, to me is totally absurd. I think especially in poor countries around the world where women do not necessarily want to have large numbers of babies and where they can have the opportunity through birth control to control the number of kids they have, it’s something I very, very strongly support.”
Personally, I’d rather he talked about how to help women here in America. There is a lot that needs to be done. And it isn’t being done. Maybe Bernie should worry about issues here in the US.
Yeah, nothing about his platform helps women here in America. Not universal healthcare, universal childcare, publicly funded college, universal pre-k, federally funded family leave, etc.
I really don’t think the linked source is accurate.
Mr. Sanders, as quoted, seems to advocate birth control first and foremost in developing world countries— “where they can have the opportunity through birth control to control the number of kids they have”. Why, then, is he being depicted as a baby killing eugenicist?
If his idea of helping the impoverished through barrier & hormonal methods that prevent unwanted conception in the first place, what is the problem?
In this case, he was specifically asked about this narrow subject at some sort of town hall. At least he specifically answered the question and didn’t just automatically divert to something else.
Anyway, I will never vote for him, wish he wasn’t running, and he won’t be the nominee.
American women have every privilege from 100% coverage for birth control and preventive care in health insurance to affirmative action in university admissions and jobs they might not otherwise get.
I agree with Mr. Sanders if his objective in the developing world is to prevent unwanted conceptions.
Myself, as a straight white male of European descent will soon be marginalized to a point of irrelevance, so we should definitely vote in our best interests, the rest be damned.
