At UN, Trump officials.. pushed the idea that women should be expected to observe lifelong chastity,

[riversedge]

Here we are--Trump pushing idea for women from the 1800s!! Damn




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Trump officials used closed door-meetings to push the idea that women should be expected to observe lifelong chastity, except for the rare occasion that they intend to make babies.

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In Closed-Door UN Meetings, Trump Administration Officials Pushed Abstinence For International Women’s Health Programs



Members of HHS, USAID, and the US Mission to the UN asked for references to contraception, abortion, and comprehensive sex education to be struck from a document on international gender equality, calling the US a "pro-life nation."
Originally posted on April 17, 2018, at 12:11 p.m.

Updated on April 17, 2018, at 1:15 p.m.


In closed-door meetings at the United Nations in March, Trump administration officials pushed socially conservative views on women’s rights issues — including abstinence-based policies over information about contraception — that were further to the right than those expressed by most other countries present, including Russia and the representative for the Arab states, UN officials who attended the meetings told BuzzFeed News.

The Trump officials’ approach at the UN meeting makes it clear that the administration intends to extend its views on abortion, contraception, and sexual education beyond US borders to an extent that is unusual even for Republican administrations.

The comments came during the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women, a two-week session described by a spokesperson for the US Mission to the United Nations as the UN’s “most important meeting on women’s empowerment.” The main event is a closed-door negotiation on language to include in an annual UN document that sets global standards and outlines potential policies pertaining to gender equality efforts in all member countries.

Early in this series of meetings, Bethany Kozma — a senior adviser for gender equality and women’s empowerment at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and anti-transgender activist — emphasized that the US was a “pro-life nation,” sparking a strong reaction from delegates in the room, two officials in the room confirmed to BuzzFeed News.

“When she said that there was sort of a record scratch and silence,” one UN official who participated in the negotiations but asked not to be named so as to maintain a working relationship with the other member states present told BuzzFeed News. “Everyone was like, ‘are you kidding me?’”

Shannon Kowalski, the director of the International Women’s Health Coalition, said that the Trump administration’s stances on women’s health presented in the meeting were “further to the right” than they were at last year’s commission, or even under George W. Bush’s administration. While the Bush administration implemented anti-abortion policies abroad, the scope was limited to family planning programs. Trump’s policies already expand beyond those limits................

[hlthe2b]

1. This ought to be splashed across front page of every major newspaper and on every news show.

Expose these women-hating cretins.

[Girard442]

2. The Trump administration would support the burning of women at the stake...

...if that's what it took to keep the support of evangelicals.

[trueblue2007]

27. HILLARY HILLARY !!! I wish we had a time machine. Change Trump's mind before he decided to run

those sexist pigs will not destroy the hopes and dreams of women

[Takket]

3. what next? teaching them to place a dime on their lap and tell them to not let it fall?

[airplaneman]

25. No no no - Its an aspirin between the knees. n/t.

[marked50]

4. Right there in alignment with Trump's view on women chastity isn't it? Oh, the hypocrisy...

[world wide wally]

5. As the world laughed at us and shook their heads at Trumps hypocricy

[AJT]

6. I'm guessing that it is Pence who is behind these sort of things.

Agent Orange demonstrably does not believe in any of the rightwing christian crap. He just goes along because he doesn't care. Pence actually believes in this garbage.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Excuse me, but . . . .

[Laffy Kat]

26. Nothing sweeter.

[MattP]

8. President Rawdog is against safesex seems about right

[Freethinker65]

9. I want every legislator and cabinet official asked if they support this. I want them on record.

I want to see them squirm and spin. I want every voter, especially female, voting for Republicans to know what agenda they are voting for.

[riversedge]

10. How do we go about doing this? Fantastic idea but it barely made the headlines. I missed it

yesterday and just found it at the Hill

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/383579-trump-officials-claimed-us-is-a-pro-life-nation-pushed-for-abstinence-based



Trump official claimed US is a 'pro-life nation' in UN meeting: report
By Avery Anapol - 04/17/18 03:21 PM EDT


Trump official claimed US is a 'pro-life nation' in UN meeting: report
© Greg Nash

Trump administration officials reportedly pushed socially conservative views on sexual education and abortion at a major international meeting on gender equality earlier this year.

In closed-door meetings at the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, officials from the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Mission to the U.N. discussed abstinence-oriented sexual education and anti-abortion policies, officials present at the meetings told BuzzFeed News.

Bethany Kozma, a USAID adviser on women’s empowerment, reportedly said during a meeting that the U.S. was a “pro-life nation.”

“When she said that there was sort of a record scratch and silence,” one U.N. official told BuzzFeed News on the condition of anonymity. “Everyone was like, ‘are you kidding me?’”

Trump officials reportedly asked for the removal of references to “modern contraception,” “emergency contraception” and “unsafe abortion” from a document on international gender equality, according to BuzzFeed News.......................

[uponit7771]

11. Conservatives hate sex, they're not good at it. One of the things that makes one a conservative

[GeorgeHayduke]

16. Conservatives hate sex?

They thrive on sex. Some of them get banned from malls prowling for it. Some send pictures of their junk to teens looking for it. Some of them resort to altar boys in its name. At least one grabs 'em by the pussy just to brag about it. They bribe and threaten to conceal their penchant for it.

And Trump seeking life-long chastity? With whom would he cheat on his pregnant wives then?

Conservatives are sadly obsessed with a very perverse perspective of sex. I expect the espousal for a desire of chastity is likely a compensatory acknowledgement of that perversion.

It's called guilt resulting in shame.

Edit: not sure, I've never had sex with a conservative, so you very well may be correct in assuming their inability to perform the act properly. I suspect you may be on to something.

[ProudLib72]

12. Sex equals power

Is this some twisted sort of buyer's remorse on the Don's part in the midst of the Stormy/McDougal/Moore....etc scandals? Or is he simply insane?

[Oneironaut]

13. LOL

What's next? Lecturing others on cyber bullying? Extolling the virtues of marriage with a sanctimonious anti-adultery speech?

PS - It's amazing that the biggest misogynists pretend to care about women the most. Instead, the focus here seems to be two things - putting women back in the "place" that the far-right has defined for them in society, and neutralizing the LGBT "threat" that these freaks constantly whine about. I'm surprised the Trump administration hasn't invited the Westboro church to represent us as well.

[milestogo]

14. If women observe lifelong chastity, who are straight men going to have sex with?

Or does this vision allow for exceptions?

[Major Nikon]

18. Theres a biblical exception to adultery for prostitution

As we all know, nobody knows the bible better than Trump.

[mythology]

15. If only his mother had held to that philosophy.

[Demovictory9]

17. Omg..november can't come fast enough

[eShirl]

19. Do as I say, not as I do.

[Stonepounder]

20. Somebody tell the Parkland kids to ask the lit teachers to

teach Lysistrata.

(OK, I was an English Major and took lots of Lit courses. For those not familiar, Lysistrata is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War by denying all the men of the land any sex. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace.)

[mountain grammy]

21. This is Pence and the rest of the batshit crazy religious fanatics

lurking around the White House. Coming soon to America. It will get worse.

[dhill926]

22. aaaaand...not The Onion....

mercy.....

[sarcasmo]

23. Handmaids.

[sandensea]

24. When A Handmaid's Tale was published, people thought Margaret Atwood was exaggerating.

Our dear old GOP proved the skeptics wrong.