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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Since when is Mike Pence a misogynist?
I get the homophobe stuff; he probably is that, though let's give some small credit to Trump giving probably the most pro-LGBT statement ever made in a GOP nomination speech.
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1) Trumps LGBT statement was interesting--though it fed his anti-Islam rhetoric. He'll protect the LGBTQ community from
foreign threats. Not domestic. There are plenty of domestic threats that need to be dealt with.
2) First off, Pence claimed that Mulan was feminist liberal propaganda, because clearly a woman couldn't possibly be effective as a warrior.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...-election-film
Secondly he signed into law a strict anti-abortion law that prevents abortion based on fetal abnormalities--which would include fatal abnormalities, meaning a woman with a wanted pregnancy that was not viable, would have to carry to term regardless of the effect on her emotional well-being, because clearly men know better than women and doctors.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...tions-into-law
Even other anti-abortion activists spoke out against the bill, that it was excessive.
Really this is just a good summarization of what a misogynistic mess Mike Pence is, and just how truly awful it would be for American women to give him even more power than he has.
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction....ductive-rights
So he's done his best to stop all abortions, even in many rape cases. He's tried to defund Planned Parenthood and then took money earmarked to help low-income women, and then donated it to an anti-choice organization. He insists that a fictionalized version of a real historical figure is "liberal propaganda", that women who work stunt their children's growth, etc.
Mike Pence is
awful for women, and I want him nowhere near the Presidency, especially given that Trump will likely pass all major decision-making onto him, and that he would have a hand in placing three new SCOTUS judges who could have major effects on the survival of Roe v. Wade.
He's also terrible for the LGBTQ community, after signing "religious freedom" bills that legalize discrimination.
Mike Pence would be Trump's Cheney, and that's absolutely terrifying.