This is the kind of choices the republicans have been making for the last 8 years. If McCain keels over dead, she will be republican puppet waiting for marching orders.
Women who vote for her because she is a woman is voting against their own best interests. They'll be voting against woman rights. Republicans want them to have that baby even thou they can't afford it or because of rape and once the baby is born, you're on your own.
Today at the Democratic National Convention,
Women’s eNews hosted a panel on pushing a “pro-women agenda” in Congress, as part of the
SeaChange Ideas Forum. One of the speakers at the event was Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Democratic Vice Chair of the bipartisan Women’s Caucus.
Schakowsky blasted the Bush administration’s record on women’s issues, calling his tenure “anti-women” from day one. In particular, she criticized a recent Bush administration memo that “
defines several widely used contraception methods as abortion and protects the right of medical providers to refuse to offer them.” From her remarks:
This administration is not just anti-abortion. When it comes down to it, they’re really anti-sex, anti-women, in every possible way. Imagine not being able tell someone about contraception. That is a rule that in the United States of America that the president has proposed. We need a change, my sisters, we really do. They are after us, they are after our bodies, they are after controlling our lives.
ThinkProgress spoke with Schakowsky afterward about the record of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on women’s rights, especially in light of his comments in July that he is committed to “equal opportunity in every aspect of our society.” Schakowsky told ThinkProgress that McCain would “absolutely” continue the “anti-women” policies of President Bush:
He’s always been against reproductive rights for women. He’s not for equal pay, he did not support Lilly Ledbetter and the work that we’re trying to do to get equal pay. He never supported the Family and Medical Leave Act in Congress. So there’s no evidence. … He’s not with us.
McCain actually
skipped the vote on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in April, which would have made it easier for “women and other workers to pursue pay discrimination claims.” He said that if he had been there, he would have voted against it because he believes women simply need more “
education and training.” In the past, he has also made a joke about
how much women love to be raped.