Wednesday, August 29, 2012

U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine shows his support of women’s rights in Arlington


As part of U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine’s campaign to demonstrate his concern for women’s rights, the former Virginia governor attended a Planned Parenthood “Women are Watching” bus tour stop in Arlington.

At the stop, Kaine reconfirmed his support for health care choices being made by women in addition to lambasting attempts by elected representatives to limit health care access for women.

Kaine stated, “Women’s lives are not political issues, women’s lives are not wedge issues. Women have the ability to make their own health care decisions and their own moral decisions.”[1]

By contrast, the so-called small government conservative challenger for the U.S. Senate seat in Virginia, George Allen, has favored government legislation that would define personhood as beginning at conception, thereby constraining the rights of women to pursue abortions.[2] Presumably, Allen’s anti-abortion position would also apply to women who have been raped.[3]

In the case of women’s rights then, the two candidates for U.S. Senate in Virginia couldn’t be much more different. Tim Kaine supports and respects the rights of women while George Allen hides his lack of respect for women’s rights behind a “right to life” moral philosophy.

Therefore, if you’re a woman who thinks you know how to make your own health care decisions, then George Allen clearly isn’t the senate candidate you want to place your vote for, period.

But if this reason isn’t enough to deter you from voting George Allen, the senate candidate also authored a Balanced Budget Amendment.[4] Can you guess who the economic “balance” would weigh most heavily upon? Here’s a clue: probably not the super wealthy of America.


[1] http://fairfaxnews.com/2012/08/kaine-joins-planned-parenthood-rally/
[2] http://www.ontheissues.org/social/George_Allen_Abortion.htm
[3] http://www2.newsadvance.com/news/2012/aug/27/mcdonnell-defends-gop-platforms-abortion-plank-wit-ar-2153204/
[4] http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/George_Allen.htm 

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