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Vagina. A word that conjures a myriad of images, thoughts, and feelings. Linguistically, the word is just a medical term for part of a woman’s reproductive system. The term originates from the same Latin word meaning sheath or scabbard. It was coined most likely in the late 1600’s by men of medicine, borrowing from existing…
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On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified granting women the right to vote. It was officially certified by the Secretary of State a week later. This victory was over 70 years in the making. When the Declaration of Independence was written in 1776 women were considered…
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Project 2025 promotes an exclusive pro-life agenda and makes many claims about abortion that are not supported by references and appear to be in conflict with known facts. The authors state the Department of Health and Human Services “should create and promote a research agenda that supports pro-life policies and explores the harms, both mental…
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Project 2025’s promotion of restoring the American family combined with an anti-abortion agenda paint a rosy picture of pregnancy, motherhood, and prosperity. The authors state the CDC should “ensure that it is not promoting abortion as health care” and “fund studies into the risks and complications of abortion and ensure that it corrects and does…
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Women Are People Too Continuing my examination of Project 2025 and the anti-abortion platform, the word abortion and its iterations appear approximately 176 times in the document. (Dans & Groves, 2023). It is included in the introduction to Project 2025, the introduction to the sections on the Common Defense and the General Welfare, and the…
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The Great Divide As promised, this week I’ll take a closer look at Project 2025. You may be wondering why it is important to focus on this document in such detail. In the conclusion to Project 2025, the former President of the Heritage Foundation states the first Mandate for Leadership was created in 1981 and…
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The Power of Women On this day we celebrate our independence as a country. The preamble of our Constitution states: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure [sic] domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence [sic], promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings…