Will Hillary Clinton women vote for Sarah Palin?

Sarah Palin and her church and her pastor have made themselves abundantly clear on issues of reproductive privacy -- there won't be any. In a Palin world, if my daughter wanted birth control, she wouldn't be able to get any, and if I wanted sex education to be taught in my son's school, I would be out of luck. If a girl I knew were raped and impregnated by her uncle and she elected to have an abortion, she would not be allowed to do so. She wouldn't even be allowed to take the morning after pill in case he got her pregnant. Maybe there's something you guys don't get about this. Bristol Palin's pregnancy is at the heart of what women and the right wing have been fighting over for thirty years, and it isn't abortion, it's privacy and the right to control your own reproductive choices. There will always be abortion, and there will always be choice, but Palin would like the choice to be illegal and punishable. Same with birth control.

I like you, Barack, but you don't get it either. The issues of birth control and abortion have been made into public issues by the right wing, and millions of women and girls have suffered because the right wing wants to impose its ideas of what women should do upon every woman in America including those who don't share and have never shared their values. So, Barack, I suggest that you, as a man, should do the backing off.

Bristol Palin's pregnancy, which her mother has known about for months, is at the heart of this battle. It has been shown over and over that abstinence education doesn't work, while sex education does work. Do I accept that teenagers have sex? You bet I do, and I tell the ones I have borne how to make it safe and what to watch out for and be careful of, girls and boys. Sarah Palin, for whatever reason, did not do the same thing, and yet she presumes, PRESUMES, to tell me as a mother and a woman what I can and cannot do with my body, and what I can and cannot provide for my children.

Sarah Palin has constructed her appeal to the right wing around this "social conservatism" in exactly the same way that John McCain has constructed his appeal around his aggressive foreign policy views. Both are equally political, and as political as Cheney's ideas about the unitary executive, for example. Women are citizens, too, and our privacy is a political football, and has been used as such to win elections for a generation, so I supposed you mean well, you guys who are telling me to back off, but you don't get it. So shut up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/womens-issue_b_123120.html

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[kentuckyrosesinmay]

I am an educated white women who liked Hillary, but will absolutely not support Palin because of her lack of experience and education, and her avoidance of discussing policies. Any women who is voting for Palin just because she is a women is actually going to work to undermine women's intelligence and integrity. Obama 2008!

[bluesrunnerdog]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Palin! I hope women are not going to be use by the Republican. Please don't forget the past 8 years, nothing will change!

[HelpfulFriend]

Where are they now?

Hillary - Secretary of State

Paling - Tax Fraud Problems

[dodoboy1212]

women shouldnt be allowed to vote simple as tat because they'll just be fucking sexist

[badtown88]

That's the most ridiculous and moronic argument I've ever heard. Thank god you ignorant people lost.

[badtown88]

No. Women aren't stupid enough to vote for a person who would have taken away many of their rights simply because he chose a woman to be his running mate. The real sexists here were the republicans for underestimating women.

[ellefrance2008]

It's your opinion. That's why we live in this beautiful free country that I hope it's stays like that after this election with this new president elect.

[jungenbum]

I was watching CNN and they asked viewers who would win in a debate, Sarah Palin or Hilary Clinton, and everyone said Hilary would rip her apart. Meanwhile, McCain is saying Palin has more experience than both Obama and Biden combined. Sense making?

[TreyMarlow]

Really she has more experience than OBAMA- You sheep make me ill. The democrats started the deregulation back when Clinton was president- America has been on a drunken party for over 12 years and guess what, the tab is due! Take some responsibility for your freespending, risk taking, anti-saving ways! Palin rocks and I am voting for her!!

[lthom33]

Hill was a champion for women's rights while Palin is not. Also a true Democrat will not vote for McCain/Palin because of their extreme views.

[music1fan2]

Viva La Palin!!! I'm voting for her.