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.@Mimirocah1 hey, heard you said that Bernie is anti women. I would like to point you to some history. Thread 👇
In 1972, a year before Roe v Wade, Bernie ran on a platform saying
"It strikes me as incredible that politicians think that they have the right to tell a woman what she can or cannot do with her body."
"It strikes me as incredible that politicians think that they have the right to tell a woman what she can or cannot do with her body."
Bernie's 1972 Governor election profile in "A Feminist View of the Democratic and Liberty Union Candidates"
.@BernieSanders, mayor, the working women's ally. An affirmative action which bought women into well paying construction jobs and how it challenged the ideological assumptions about women holding "unfeminine" jobs.
Do you know in 1991, @BernieSanders tried to add an amendment to "Civil Rights Act of 1991" that would have ensured that race and sex discrimination would be treated identically under federal law.
1992: "Breast cancer in America today is a tragedy of epidemic proportions."
And he had a plan and a bill. The senate version became law in Oct 1992.
And he had a plan and a bill. The senate version became law in Oct 1992.
"Without the Freedom of Choice Act, women will need a computer program and a travel guide to find a safe and legal abortion". ~Bernie Sanders on him pushing the passage of Freedom of Choice Act, 28, April 1992,
Bernie's 1994 op-ed about his house resolution to urge the insurance industry as a whole to abide by the established guidelines of the Pediatric organizations
1996: When Bernie Sanders called for NFL to address domestic violence and they did
Please read the op-ed he wrote in 1996 about domestic violence
"Currently, women of reproductive age spend 68 percent more in out-of-pocket healthcare costs than do men." ~Sanders in 1998, calling contraceptive coverage in Drug Prescription Insurance.
And finally, in 1998 election when NOW(National Organization for Women) endorsed Bernie and no other Vermont politician including Leahy and Dean, "He's a congressman we don't even have to call, We know he's going to vote the right way"
Also the pre-politician Bernie gem, In 1963, when Bernie stood up against campaign housing policy "designating the hours a coed may spend outside her room"
These are only pre-2000. 🙂
These are only pre-2000. 🙂
