Comments on: John McCain: Openly Scoffing at Your Health

By: “Health of the Mother”? | Feminism @ the Hathor Legacy

“Health of the Mother”? | Feminism @ the Hathor Legacy — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:56:22 +0000

[...] making the rounds – over at Shakesville,The Curvature, Feministing, and Hoyden About Town – as it should be. Most of the sites I’ve linked to have [...]

By: jovan byars

jovan byars — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:06:17 +0000

McCain, the GOP and the Taliban are all on the same side when it comes to women’s rights. They all hate women. That is one more reason why we must vote for Obama on November 4.

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:51:14 +0000

This part of the debate made me sick. I was so glad that this topic finally came up in the debates and was greatly disturbed by McCain’s attitude and words. It really bothered me that he kept saying “These young women need ‘help’ as if the only people who seek abortions are young, confused, whores who want to kill their babies. Disgusting. And he kept saying “Pro-Abortion” I love how Obama put him in check and said “No one is pro-abortion.”

By: SarahSimone

SarahSimone — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:16:48 +0000

I really really hope this makes people realize how little McCain cares for the health and safety of women. Oh, I’m sorry the “health” and “safety” of women. What a condescending ass. I’m feeling very hopeful about Obama’s chances but the thought that McCain could still win terrifies me to the depths of my soul.

By: McCain’s mockery of women’s health

McCain’s mockery of women’s health — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:34:36 +0000

[...] it or not, it gets worse. Via Cara at the Curvature, here’s another video of John McCain talking about abortion (second video down) where he continues to support outlawing abortion, both federally and locally, [...]

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:28:47 +0000

The BBC website had a blow-by-blow of the debate, and one of the live commentators mentioned it. Not much, but he also used the word mock to characterise McCain’s attitude, and found it disgusting.

By: aerdrie

aerdrie — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:25:00 +0000

Melissa on October 16, 2008 2:58 pm

This is amazing. The “health” of the mother. WOW. Are the mainstream news outlets picking up on this?

Yes, they are, thankfully. Chris Matthews, specifically.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:54:27 +0000

yeah – I looked around after I asked that and was not able to find it on any of the mainstream sites. Not that that really suprises me. But I really hope there was a lot of women that saw that and it made them think, especially if they really somehow thought that the Rep ticked is “feminist”.

By: Cara

Cara — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:15:42 +0000

Melissa — other than HuffPo, this is the one and only article I’ve found. And it’s, um, a blog post on their website. If the media’s talking about abortion at all, they’re talking about the Supreme Court question — mainly, they’re interested in Joe the Plumber.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:27:24 +0000

When I was watching the post-debate coverage last night, Rachel Maddow pointed out that he pretty much lost the whole debate just with the scare quotes about the health of pregnant women.

But none of us should be surprised, guys and gals, cause we all know that anti-choice Republicans like John McCain, (whose only consistency is being anti-choice and anti-woman) DON’T CARE ABOUT THE HEALTH OF PREGNANT WOMEN. We know this. We know this because they cut funding to help poor women take care of themselves during their pregnancies. Now everyone else knows it.

Frankly, I think that this gaffe, if we can call it that, was bad for John McCain but good for America and American women especially — because people won’t put up with it.