Obama-Biden v McCain-Palin: Record on Women
From the Obama for America campaign:
During the Republican Convention, John McCain's campaign manager said, "Issues don't matter." No wonder McCain hasn't been able to bridge the gender gap. While John McCain was gambling that women voters would overlook the fact that McCain-Palin are offering four more years of Bush's failed policies, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been discussing the issues that women and families are concerned about - issues like equal pay for equal work, the right to make your own family planning choices, and the challenge of balancing the family budget in the face of skyrocketing energy and healthcare costs.
Anyone who thinks women are voting for candidates based solely on gender is completely out of touch. The vast majority of women, like some 80 percent of Americans, think this country is heading in the wrong direction and while McCain-Palin only offer more of the same, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will deliver the change we need.
See this awesome chart here to compare and contrast their positions on various women's issues.

Your organization is certainly A BIG disappointment, and I and my colleagues have just directed our COO to stop contributions to your organization.
Boo and Shame on You for Endorsing a candidate when you are "supposed" to be bi-partisian.
YOU ALL STINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Molly,
As a father of twin daughters, my bride of 27 years and I have always communicated with our daughters about the consequences of irresponsible behavior. I wish people like you would spend more time and money on such activites. A life is a sacred thing and it must be protected from the very beginning. I find Mrs. Palin refreshing and the best example of what a modern day feminist is. She is evidence of what women can accomplish if they are provided the opportunity. Instead of trying to cut her, you should rejoice in her success.
The radical left is out of touch with the reality of what the rest of the country knows to be true. Extreme liberalism is destroying our beloved republic and has fostered the creation of a society that does not understand the concepts of unconditional love, honor, duty, and service.
The ticket of McCain and Palin will win, I suggest you get on the right track and work to make this a better country for all of God's children.. those that are here today, and those will come tomorrow.
Spend you time, money and effort on helping to build a better world and work to educate oour cdhildren about the dangers of unprotected sex out side of marriage.
I am a proud mother & Grandmother of 7 wonderful children, & 5 Grandchildren. But I am also very PRO-CHOICE!
I don't believe that anyone man or woman has the right to tell another woman what is right or wrong when it comes to her body!
Uncle Tom you have a lot to learn!
I have also communicated with my sons & daughters about the consequences of irresponsible behavior. But in the end WE as parents do not have the right force what we belive to be right on our children. I would never turn my back on one of my children because I did not agree with a choice they made. All my children know that no matter what comes their way I AM IN THEIR CORNER and I WILL STAND BEHIND THEM AND THEIR DECISIONS!
You say
"Spend you time, money and effort on helping to build a better world and work to educate oour cdhildren about the dangers of unprotected sex out side of marriage."
I agree that our children need and deserve better sex education. And while we are looking at who wants to be president it might do you some good to see where McCain stands on this issue.
Here's another one for you. Where was McCain in teaching is young daughter about the dangers of unprotected sex out side of marriage when she became pregnant as a minor?
At the end of the day the USA needs to pick its self up and it needs a president better then Bush,
McCain is only going to continue to do what Bush has started and that is bring America down.
PEOPLE ARE VOTING FOR OBAMA BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE FOUR MORE YEARS OF THE LAST 8... AND FOR THE VALUES HE REPRESENTS!
I hope & pray Obama will be the next president.
It's unfortunate that people sometimes vote based on sex or race instead of the values being represented.
PRO-CHOICE
PRO OBAMA
No, Tom. The ticket of Obama and Biden will win. And I suggest YOU get on the right track and work to make this a better country for all of God's children...you can start by learning something new, like what the definition of "feminist" actually is, and what Sarah Palin's message really is.
Read this editorial from Gloria Steinem.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-steinem4-2008sep04,0,7915118.story
Gloria Steinem OWNS you, Sarah. She's the proper example of the modern day feminist!
Younger women are spoiled. They have no idea what my generation went through for feminism and the right to control your fertility whether you are married or not.
I was in high school when birth control was only available to married women, and abortion was illegal. The 70’s wave of feminism changed all that, but we paid a heavy price. The men our age, those who weren’t messed up by Viet Nam, just basically left the building. They couldn’t handle our newfound independence, so they left us.
At that time I wanted nothing more than to be married, keep house, and keep painting. But forget about finding a man who wanted to marry anyone. They didn’t need to anymore, because now we had “free” love. This meant that every slut in the universe was keeping those guys happy enough. So I lived for two and a half decades alone, a boyfriend here and there, but basically alone. I finally did marry, at age 49!
I have, since the age of 18, firmly believed in a woman’s right to choose, and I’ve put my money where my mouth was. I marched on Washington, which was a very uncomfortable trip, where I got the splitting headache of my life the day of the march because our organizer didn’t make time for us to stop and eat first. I’ve written Congress numerous times and signed countless petitions. I volunteered for a year at Planned Parenthood, during which time I myself wasn't dating anyone. I’ve donated probably close to $1000 to various pro-choice and pro-woman organizations over the years, which money I could really really use right now. I’d take it back if I could.
If you go back to my grandmother’s generation, women who fought for freedom went through much much worse. Women were routinely arrested and beaten by male police. Margaret Saenger put her physical safety and that of her family on the line to bring the first contraceptives to the U.S. -- diaphragms which had to be floated into the New York harbor. Saenger was under death threats at the time.
Never once has any woman of the young generation, the generation who can take all this stuff for granted, who don't have to worry because they had sex and their life might be ruined by an unintended pregnancy, who can waltz out and get contraceptives of all sorts anywhere, married or not, who have RU486, the morning after pill, which by the way took an almost 20 year fight to get on the market, part of which I paid for -- never one time has any of these women expressed the least bit of gratitude to me and women of my generation for paving the way to their sexual freedom.
The feminist women I cut my teeth with were in the Women’s Spirituality movement. From them I grew to expect to get older and be honored for my sacrifices made for younger women, to be looked up to and listened to. Guess that’s not politically correct anymore.
The young women are spoiled and ungrateful. They diss me because I like to consider other women’s points of view and don’t follow the party line. They don’t want to hear my older woman’s wisdom. In fact some of them -- the New Age snobs -- think I’m “un-evolved” and that they are so much more enlightened that they have nothing to learn from me. Young women sometimes walk away from me in mid-sentence. I can’t even begin to describe how all this hurts.
So what I’ve decided -- after years of this sort of treatment -- is this: FORGET THESE CLUELESS UNGRATEFUL LITTLE *******! I’m voting for McCain and Palin. I will pray every day that they take the White House this fall.
I like McCain and have for years thought he would be one of the best U.S. presidents ever. I am at heart a fiscal conservative who believes in low taxes and small government. For years I have been scared into voting for people I didn’t agree with just because they were pro-choice. No more! I’m past menopause and won’t need an abortion. McCain is my guy.
Here’s what I can’t wait to see: Palin in the White House. These spoiled little girls will likely get to find out the hard way what women who came before had to go through for women’s freedom. I’ll enjoy watching them go through the same hell we went through, thinking all the while that it serves them right.
You ungrateful little twats! You disrespectful spoiled little girls! To heck with you! This is not my fight anymore. You’re on your own.
VIVA MCCAIN!
Wow, what a woman you are. You talk about how hard you worked for feminism...and then you call us all spoiled, ungrateful little twats. Very well done. I actually don't know why you joined the feminist movement in the first place, since now all you want to do is undermine it.
Now get off this website. Free Republic beckons. Go to it. You'll feel right at home.
NARAL, I am strongly pro-choice. You are supposed to be our ADVOCATE, not a shill for the Obama campaign. You are supposed to hold the candidates'"feet to the fire" in support of choice.
I am asking you to explain your continued support of Senator Obama in light of his comments in the magazine "Relevant" a couple months ago:
Obama: "...I have repeatedly said that I think it's entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother. Now, I don't think that "mental distress" qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term. Otherwise, as long as there is such a medical exception in place, I think we can prohibit late-term abortions."
It seems to me that Senator Obama is saying that HIS test is not overall health of the mother (including mental health). Obama's test for whether we will be permitted to have a late term abortion (not defined) is "physical problems" that are "real and significant." Sounds a lot like a very limited "life (not health) of the mother" standard to me.
It is clear that at the very least, for Senator Obama, the choice is NOT between the woman and her doctor.
When is NARAL going to stop being a branch of the Democratic Party and stand up for women? The only acceptable answer is:
"I'm for choice, period. The choice of carrying a baby to term or having an abortion is up to the woman, in consultation with her doctor."
THAT should be how a politician get's NARAL's support and a 100% rating!
I have sent you $$ in the past, but no more, until you stand up for women's FULL rights to choice.
THE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST ...
Barack is cryin. He always thought this is mine!
I'm Michele's husband, I'm black, and this is mine!
I just got to step up into the plate ... and, then out of
nowhere, came 'Hey, I'm Sarah Palin' ... and he said
damn, where did you come from? I'm black, I'm
entitled ... there's a white woman stealing my show
... wah ... wah ...