Not Abortion Rights: Women’s Rights
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Women continue their fight for equality. Whenever a Republican is in the Oval Office, women’s rights take two steps backwards for every step they gained during a Democratic administration. Before I move deeper into my article, I feel that I must vent my frustration. This begins with one, simple fact: old, white men have no right to make decisions for women when the issue has any relationship to their ability to reproduce. The situation is unrelatable for men who continue to believe that women have a single purpose: to serve the needs of men. That said, let’s take a realistic look at an issue which should not be included in the many reasons we choose one candidate over another when we vote: abortion. WOMEN CONTINUE TO BE SECOND AND EVEN THIRD-CLASS CITIZENS In America, white women were not allowed to vote until 1920. Black women were forced to wait for their Constitutional right until 1965. For 49 years, women were protected by federal law when they decided to te...