Feminists Do Not Horse-Trade Women’s Rights For Republican Votes

[Misty Allen]

Obama was famous for grossly underpaying women working in his office. I am sure they have plenty of time to file for sexual reparations.

The story came out during the campaign that the men were earning more and that McCain was far more generous with his female staff, the pay was the SAME for both!!

This was about women who worked on his Senate staff!! Plus, he employed fewer women.
  Check it out!!!

Shame on him for this two-faced way of promoting equal pay!!!

He preached it during the campaign but did not practice it!

That has been checked out and proven to be false.  There have been women in Obama's office that have been paid less than men, but that was because the men had higher positions.  There ISN'T the case that women were paid less than men for doing the same work. Its the case all over the world, most supervisors are paid more than their employees.

Also, John McCain had the chance to support legislation for equal pay for women, and does not.  Barack Obama does.  If you really admire John McCain, I have to wonder why.

The man was a cad, has voted against every woman's rights issue, including choice, equal pay and even for making insurance companies pay for birth control (while making them cover ****). 

Check that again - McCain was against the insurance companies paying for birth control while insisting they cover ****.

Not only that, he cheated on his first wife, dumped her when she got disfigured in a car accident and also called Cindy a "****" during an argument one time. He doesn't respect women, and would have been a nightmare as Commander in Chief for any of us who call ourselves a feminist.

the thanks goes to Lily Ledbetter and women in the Senate like Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barbara Mikulski
of Maryland (great lady!) for fighting hard for this.

Thanks also to Obama for signing it, you would NEVER have gotten that under a McCain presidency.

[Misty Allen]

To me Sarah Palin is the ULTIMATE FEMINIST:

Just like you and I she came from nothing, got no help from anyone (save for her family) and became
Governor of Alaska - like it or not, probably the most important state in the Union for both defense and
resources.

She took on corruption, including her own Party's, and 'cleaned up' Alaska.

She picked the perfect - for her - helpmeet in life.

Rose to the top just from grit and hard work - the way we all should.

She had the GUTS of her convictions:  she knew from day one her last baby was going to have Down's
Syndrome (amniotic testing is ROUTINE for an 'older' woman's pregnancy.  She still had him, even though
she could have aborted him.  Actually, even a healthy baby was not what is most wanted when your
family is just about grown and you are in your forties.   

Yes, she CHOSE to have the baby, while she would rob other women of their choice.  Wait till that baby grows older, I wonder how much she'll be taking care of him, or is she just going to hire someone to look after him.  Do you know how hard it is to look after someone with Down's Syndrome?

Anyway, Alaska is far from the most important state in the union.  There's only a few hundred thousand people there, the area does have a lot of natrural resources but most of the widerness there is left untouched.  Russia is not going to invade there.  Do you know how hard it would be to have a ground war in all that ice and snow?

And, as for her being the ultimate feminist, I would say that she is actually the worst kind of feminist -against equal pay for women, against choice, she even wanted **** victims to pay for their own **** kits, a $1200 expense!  She has benefited from all the benefits of feminism but has never supported any feminist causes herself, what a hypocrite!  Thank goodness she didn't win the election, she would have set women back forty years in this country.

[Bianca]

HORSEFEATHERS, Misty!!!


Go ahead and regurgitate all the CRAP that that hideous, miserable Huffington woman feeds you and

all the other FILTHY blogs, like Daily Kos.....


The filth about Hillary and Palin was beyond the pale, aided and abetted by those jokers at
WNBC and the rest of the MSM.

I read them all and watched them all, honey!!!  I finally had to stop - I couldn't constantly take a shower,
now, could I?

 
                                                      F I L T H


'THERE IS A SPECIAL HELL FOR WOMEN WHO WON'T SUPPORT OTHER WOMEN'

Madeleine Albright

[Bianca]

Hey, Misty:

Care to back up your charges about Governor Sarah Palin with LEGITIMATE references?



Also, do some research about what the US has up in Alaska, defense-wise......

[Amanda Messenger]

Bianca, actually Palin misquoted Madeline Albright.  Actually, the quote reads:

"There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't help other women."

Here is the cup from Starbucks she misquoted:

[Amanda Messenger]

Heaven help us if we are ever all expected to support women candidates just because they are women! 

[Misty Allen]

Hey, Misty:

Care to back up your charges about Governor Sarah Palin with LEGITIMATE references?



Also, do some research about what the US has up in Alaska, defense-wise......

Sure, is USA Today reputable enough for you?

Palin's town used to bill victims for **** kits

By Ken Dilanian and Matt Kelley, USA TODAY
WASILLA, Alaska — In 2000, Alaska lawmakers learned that rural police agencies had been billing **** victims or their insurance companies $500 to $1,200 for the costs of the forensic medical examinations used to gather evidence. They quickly passed a law prohibiting the practice.
According to the sponsor, Democrat Eric Croft, the law was aimed in part at Wasilla, where now-Gov. Sarah Palin was mayor. When it was signed, Wasilla's police chief expressed displeasure.


"In the past, we've charged the cost of exams to the victims' insurance company when possible," then-chief Charlie Fannon told the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, the local newspaper. "I just don't want to see any more burden put on the taxpayer."

Now that Palin is the Republican nominee for vice president, Democrats such as former Alaska governor Tony Knowles — who signed the ****-kit bill into law and was defeated by Palin in 2006 — are raising the issue to question Palin's commitment to women's issues and crime victims. Palin appointed Fannon after firing his predecessor shortly after she took office in 1996.

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"In retrospect, I would have asked the female working-mother mayor of that town why her police chief was against this," said Croft, the former Anchorage state representative.

Palin spokeswoman Maria Comella said in an e-mail that the governor "does not believe, nor has she ever believed, that **** victims should have to pay for an evidence-gathering test."

"Gov. Palin's position could not be more clear," she said. "To suggest otherwise is a deliberate misrepresentation of her commitment to supporting victims and bringing violent criminals to justice."

Comella would not answer other questions, including when Palin learned of Wasilla's policy or whether she tried to change it. The campaign cited the governor's record on domestic violence, including increasing funding for shelters.

Knowles criticized Palin to USA TODAY, and again Wednesday in a teleconference organized by Democrats. "It seems like one of those pieces of legislation that you can't imagine it would ever have to be written," he said.

Until the 2000 legislation, local law enforcement agencies in Alaska could pass along the cost of the exams, which are needed to obtain an attacker's DNA evidence. **** victims in several areas of Alaska, including the Matanuska-Susitna Valley where Wasilla is, complained about being charged for the tests, victims' advocate Lauree Hugonin, of the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, told state House committees, records show.

In cases when insurance companies are billed, the victims pay a deductible.

Fannon told the Frontiersman that the tests would cost the department up to $14,000 per year. He said he would rather force rapists to pay for the tests, not taxpayers. Fannon, who is no longer police chief, could not be reached for comment Wednesday; his home phone number has been disconnected.

It is not known how many **** victims in Wasilla were required to pay for some or all of the medical exams, but a legislative staffer who worked on the bill for Croft said it happened. "It was more than a couple of cases, and it was standard practice in Wasilla," Peggy Wilcox said, who now works for the Alaska Public Employees Association. "If you were raped in Wasilla, this was going to happen to you."

After calling Wasilla Mayor Dianne Keller for comment Tuesday, USA TODAY was instructed to submit a public records request, under which the city has 10 days to respond. As of Wednesday, the city had not responded to a request for records reflecting Wasilla's prior policy, including when it took effect and the cost to sexual assault victims.

In 2000, there were 497 rapes reported in Alaska, FBI statistics show. That's a rate of 79.3 per 100,000 residents, the highest in the nation.

Nationally, victims' advocates have for years reported scattered instances of **** victims being required to pay for their forensic tests, says Ilse Knecht of the National Center for Victims of Crime in Washington. Those complaints have subsided somewhat after Congress in 2005 passed a law requiring states to provide **** exams free of charge or reimburse victims for the costs, says Knecht, whose group supported the provision.

"The reason we passed the legislation was that we saw it was prevalent enough to be a pretty considerable problem," Knecht says. "There are no other victims of crime that end up being billed for evidence collection."

The Senate version of the legislation that included the ****-exam provision was sponsored by Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was one of 58 co-sponsors; Republican presidential nominee John McCain was not.

Matt Kelley reported from Washington

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-10-****-exams_N.htm

[Misty Allen]

She is not a good person, Bianca, face it.

[Bianca]

Oh, I see, PALIN PASSED THAT LAW ALL BY HERSELF!!!

I guess they are so backward in Alaska that they don't VOTE in City councils......






                                    THIS IS WHAT A "NOT A GOOD PERSON" IS LIKE, Misty:




                                                     OBAMA AND HIS REZKO TIES








April 23, 2007

BY TIM NOVAK Staff Reporter/tnovak@suntimes.com
For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago's South Side.

It was just four years after the landlords -- Antoin "Tony'' Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru -- had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers.

It was just four years after the landlords -- Antoin "Tony'' Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru -- had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers.

Rezko and Mahru couldn't find money to get the heat back on.


Rezko and Mahru couldn't find money to get the heat back on.


But their company, Rezmar Corp., did come up with $1,000 to give to the political campaign fund of Barack Obama, the newly elected state senator whose district included the unheated building.

Obama has been friends with Rezko for 17 years. Rezko has been a political patron to Obama and many others, helping to raise millions of dollars for them through his own contributions and by hosting fund-raisers in his home.

Obama, who has worked as a lawyer and a legislator to improve living conditions for the poor, took campaign donations from Rezko even as Rezko's low-income housing empire was collapsing, leaving many African-American families in buildings riddled with problems -- including squalid living conditions, vacant apartments, lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.

The building in Englewood was one of 30 Rezmar rehabbed in a series of troubled deals largely financed by taxpayers. Every project ran into financial difficulty. More than half went into foreclosure, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.

"Their buildings were falling apart,'' said a former city official. "They just didn't pay attention to the condition of these buildings.''

Eleven of Rezko's buildings were in Obama's state Senate district.

Obama, now a U.S. senator running for president, has come under fire over his friendship with Rezko, who was charged last fall with demanding kickbacks on state business deals under Gov. Blagojevich.

Much of the criticism has centered on two real estate deals involving Obama's South Side mansion. In the first, Obama paid $300,000 less than the asking price for a doctor's home, while Rezko's wife paid the doctor full price for the vacant lot next door. Then -- a few months before Rezko was indicted -- Obama bought part of that lot from Rezko's wife.

But Obama's ties with Rezko go beyond those two real estate sales and the political support, the Sun-Times found. Obama was an attorney with a small Chicago law firm -- Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland -- that helped Rezmar get more than $43 million in government funding to rehab 15 of their 30 apartment buildings for the poor.



MORE DETAILS IN THE REST OF THE ARTICLE:


http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS-rez23.article



THIS IS ONLY THE 'TIP' OF THE ICEBERG AND WHAT THE OBAMA-BIASED MEDIA NOR THE DNC HAS KEPT


HIDDEN......

[Misty Allen]

Oh, I see, PALIN PASSED THAT LAW ALL BY HERSELF!!!

I guess they are so backward in Alaska that they don't VOTE in City councils......

She didn't pass the law all by herself, she hand-picked the police chief that came up with the idea and signed off on all the budgets that didn't include funding for it.  Wasilla is only something like 7,000 people, it is niot that hard to keep track of things. 

Apparently, she did it as a tradeoff for the support of the religious right, who didn't like the morning after pill. THAT's the kind of person you are supporting:




Palin Signed For Victim-Pays **** Kits, Backed Chief Who Endorsed Them
Posted by Jana Kasperkevic at 1:34 PM, October 22, 2008


By now everyone has heard about how Wasilla, Alaska charged for **** kits when Governor Sarah Palin was its mayor. In her defense, Palin ridiculed "the notion of making a victim pay" as "crazy," suggesting that she didn't know that her police chief, Charlie Fannon, was doing it.

One would presume, however, that Palin as mayor read her town's paper, the Frontiersman, and might have noticed that in May of 2000 Fannon was quoted defending the practice of charging victims for their own sexual assault investigation and criticizing a new state bill that banned it.

"In the past. we've charged the cost of exams to the victims insurance company when possible. I just don't want to see any more burden put on taxpayers," Fannon told the Frontiersman.

What the national media has missed is that after Fannon became the major public proponent of billing **** victims for this investigative tool, Palin promoted him to a new top post and became his biggest political backer.

Instead of facing consequences for his opposition to the legislation, in November 2000 Fannon drew Palin's support when he "requested the opportunity to take on challenge of coordinating" a new Emergency Dispatch Center in Wasilla, according to a Wasilla-issued press release. Fannon's starting salary as Police Officer Communication Specialist was his ending salary as Chief of Police, $70,750, but that soon increased to $76,299. What's more, later Palin urged Fannon to run for Mat-Su Borough mayor in 2003, a position which ranked higher than her own as Wasilla Mayor.

Palin contributed to Fannon's campaign and even agreed to be its chair at the risk of tarnishing her own political career. The decision to run his campaign put her under public scrutiny because of her role as chairwoman of the Alaska State Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and the possible conflict of interest between her role at the commission and Fannon's support of coal bed methane drilling.

In addition to Palin's political ties to Fannon, there's one other indication that the practice of charging for **** kits didn’t trouble her -- she signed off on budgets that explicitly lacked funds to cover such charges for the victims.

The Huffington Post's Jacob Alperin-Sheriff was the first to report that the mayor is responsible for the police department budgets, making the first direct link between Palin and the practice.

Since 1994, each Wasilla police budget has contained a Contractual Services Line Item for "cost for medical blood tests for intoxicated driver and medical exams/evidence collections for sexual assaults."

From 1994 to 1999, Wasilla, with an average of 10 sexual assaults per year, allocated from $2,500 to $4,000 to cover the cost of **** kits, which cost $300 to $1,200 each. The FY2000 budget, the last police budget approved by Palin before the new legislation was passed, contained only $1,000 for contractual services, enough to cover the minimum cost of only three **** kits.

Judy Patrick, Palin's deputy mayor and friend, told CNN that Palin would read each department's budget line by line and send it back to the department heads with changes.

Nick Carney, a former Wasilla city council member, said that Palin decreased the funding for various police programs due to a shortage of funds. Carney, who knew Palin for years and openly criticized her for spending $15,000 to redecorate her offices, told the Voice, "If she had the funds to redecorate her office, she definitely had the money to spend on the **** kits."

"At the time, I assumed that she made that decision to payback a religious block of voters," Carney said, explaining that these were religious pro-life voters who objected to the use of morning-after-pill, which is one of the items provided to sexual assault victims as part of a **** kit.

While running for Governor of Alaska in November 2006, Palin stated that she would choose life and not support abortion even if her daughter were raped.

Photo via asecondhandconjecture (cc)

[Misty Allen]

As for Barack Obama being associated with a slum landlord, sure, you run into a lot of sleazy people in politics.  Where is the evidence that Obama ever did anything like that?

Guilt by association is a messy game.

And don't bring up Obama's former pastor, Palins' pastor used to chase people he thought we witches.

[Volitzer]

Not aware of him being a feminist or not aware that the White House dropped the family planning part from the stimulus bill?

Referring to Annjeannette's post...

He doesn't need any either.  I expect that, now that he sees that they don't want to work with him, lots of the things he really wanted will be added back in once the bill either hits the Senate in committee.  He has got a great record when it comes to supporting women's rights.

If Obama has a record of supporting women's rights I am open to seeing a link or a news article or something that substantiates her claim.

[Abrien Cane]

Here you go, Volitzer:

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Barack Obama's Record on Women's Issues
 
From Women for Barack Obama

Also, click here if you want to read John McCain's abysmal record on women's rights issues.

Click here if you're interested in Obama's pro-choice record on abortion.




ANTI-VIOLENCE

Obama Passed Law to Help Combat Violence Against Women.
Obama co-sponsored a bill that would authorize increased appropriations for FY2006-FY2010 for grants to combat violent crimes against women, revise provisions specifying purposes for grants to include use for under served populations and for forensic medical exams of sex offense victims, increase set aside amounts for grants to Indian tribal governments and U.S. territories and possessions, prohibit law enforcement officers, prosecutors, or other government officials from requiring sex offense victims to submit to a polygraph examination as a condition for proceeding with an investigation or prosecution of a sex offense. The bill would establish a sexual assault services program, directing the Attorney General to make grants to states, territories, and tribal entities for **** crisis centers or other programs and projects to assist those victimized by sexual assault, culturally specific community-based organizations for various services on behalf of sexual assault victims, and state, territorial, and tribal sexual assault coalitions. The bill would also award grants to accredited schools of medicine to develop interdisciplinary training and education programs that provide health professions students with an understanding of, and clinical skills pertinent to, domestic violence, sexual assault, and dating violence. [109th, HR 3402 (S. 1197), Passed by Unanimous Consent, 12/16/05; PL 109-162, 1/5/06]


Obama Passed A Law To Create The Victims Economic Security And Safety Act(VESSA), Which Helps Victims Of Abuse Seek Treatment Without Losing Their Job.
Obama was the chief sponsor and voted to created the Victims' Economic Security and Safety Act. The bill provided that an employee who is a victim of domestic or sexual violence, or who has a family or household member who is a victim of domestic or sexual violence, may take leave from work to address domestic or sexual violence by seeking medical attention or obtaining health or legal services. The Chicago Tribune reported, "But VESSA, as it is known, allows time off for personal issues not covered by the FMLA and is designed to help victims keep their jobs." Obama said he sponsored the bill after being approached by several advocacy group for battered women. "They came to me and indicated how difficult it is for victims of physical and sexual abuse to deal with the repercussions of an assault and then try to balance it with work and everything else." [93rd GA; HB 3486; 3R P 58-0-0, 5/20/03; Signed into law 8/25/03, PA 93-0591; Chicago Tribune, 8/20/03; University Wire, 8/22/03]


Obama Passed Law To Increase Penalties For Repeat Domestic Offenders.
Obama was the chief co-sponsor and voted for House bill providing that domestic battery or a violation of an order of protection is a Class 4 felony if the defendant had a prior conviction for certain enumerated offenses, including first degree murder, aggravated domestic battery, and criminal sexual assault. A person commits stalking if he or she has been previously convicted of stalking another person and knowingly (on one occasion) follows that same person or commits certain threatening acts against that person or that person's family. [92nd GA; HB 4081; 2002; Signed into law 8/22/02, PA 92-0827]


Obama Passed Law To Increase Penalties For Committing Battery In Or Near A Domestic Violence Shelter. Obama was the chief co-sponsor of and voted for bill providing that a person commits aggravated battery if he or she (or the person battered) is in a domestic violence shelter, or if the person battered is within 500 feet going to or from the shelter. [92nd GA, SB 0175, 3/29/01, 3R P; 55-0-0; P.A. 92-0516, 1/1/02; 91st GA, SB 1406, Session Sine Die, 1/9/01]


Obama Passed Law Improving "No Contact" Court Procedures in Domestic Abuse Petitions. Obama helped amend the Civil No Contact Order Act, including simplifying the forms for filing a petition. The law allows for the court to appoint counsel to represent the petitioner if the respondent is represented by counsel and changes what a civil no contact order may contain. [93rd, HB4395, 3R: 57-0-0, 5/5/04; PA 93-0811, 7/26/04]

Obama Passed Law Requiring Clear Language be Included in Emergency Orders of Protection. Obama co-sponsored and helped pass a law that requires the government be specific about the restrictions placed on the recipient of an emergency order of protection. This legislation prevents perpetrators of domestic violence from claiming ignorance of the law. [93rd GA, SB2495, 3R: 57-0-0, 3/25/04; Concurrence: 53-0-0, 5/26/04 PA 93-0944, 8/17/04]

Obama Passed Law Raising Standards Related to Domestic Violence. Obama sponsored a bill and voted to amend the Nursing Home Care Act and the Hospital Licensing Act to require licensees under those Acts to comply with standards relating to domestic violence established by the Joint Committee on Accreditation or other accrediting organizations approved by the Department of Public Health. [91st GA, SB0850, 1999, PA 91-0163, 99-07-16]


PROTECTION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT

Obama Passed The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Database Act of 2005.
Obama co-sponsored a bill that would require the Attorney General to make publicly available in a registry via the Internet, from information contained in the National Sex Offender Registry or in state sex offender websites, specified information about sexually violent predators and persons convicted of a sexually violent offense or a criminal offense against a minor, who are required to register with a minimally sufficient state sexual offender registration program; and allow registry users to identify offenders who are currently residing within a specified radius of a given location. Requires registry information to include the offender's name, address, date of birth, physical description, and photograph, the nature and date of commission of the offense, and the date on which the offender is released from prison or placed on parole, supervised release, or probation. Linda Walker, Dru Sjodin's mother, said that Dru's Law "is a step in the right direction, but more work needs to be done to protect women and children. 'I think it has to stay in the forefront of our nation's agenda.' she said." [109th, S. 792, Passed by Unanimous Consent, 7/28/05; Referred to House Subcommittee, 9/19/05; Aberdeen American News, 10/6/06]


Obama Passed A Bill To Protect Children From Known Sex Offenders.
Obama co-sponsored a bill to improve the national program to register and monitor individuals who commit crimes against children or sex offenses. The bill would require the Attorney General to maintain a National Sex Offender Registry at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as a National Sex Offender Public Registry. The bill would also require adults or juveniles who are convicted as adults of sexually violent offenses, certain offenses against minors, or other specified crimes (covered individuals) to provide specified information to designated persons in their domicile, work, or school states for the rest of their lives (with specified exceptions). The bill would require such an individual, initially and thereafter as specified, to register with and appear before such designated persons to provide identification, home, work, school, and vehicle information and to have a photograph and fingerprints taken. [109th, S. 1086, Passed by Unanimous Consent, 5/4/06; Held at desk, 5/8/06]

Obama Passed Law Expanding Rights Of Alleged Victims of Sexual Assault.
Obama sponsored a bill and voted to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 to eliminate the 48 hour time requirement after the collection of the sample in which an alleged sexual assault survivor must return to the hospital performing the sample analysis of all controlled substances and alcohol ingested by the alleged victim a signed written authorization in order to have the sample analysis performed. [93rd, HB4771, 2004, Third Reading: 5/19/2004, PA 93-0958 8/20/2004]

Obama Passed A Law To Make Administering A Date **** Drug Aggravated Battery As Well As An Aggravating Offense To Criminal Sexual Assault.
Obama sponsored a bill and voted to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 to provide that administering a controlled substance to a person without his or her consent for nonmedical purposes constitutes aggravated battery. The bill provided that delivering a controlled substance to a victim without his or her consent as part of the same course of conduct as the commission of criminal sexual assault or criminal sexual abuse is an aggravating circumstance that enhances these offenses to aggravated criminal sexual assault or aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Further amends the Criminal Code of 1961. [90th GA, SB 1224, 3R P 54-0-0, 3/24/98; HA 1 Concur P 55-0-1, 5/20/98; PA 90-0735, 8/11/98]


Obama Passed A Law to Expand the Definitions of "Sex Offender" and "Sex Offense" and Mandate Offender Disclosure.
Obama sponsored a bill and voted to amend the Sex Offender Registration Act to include in the definition of "sex offender" a person who is convicted or adjudicated for a sex offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The bill included in the definition of a "sex offense", a 3rd or subsequent conviction for public indecency or a conviction for custodial sexual misconduct or permitting sexual abuse of a child if these offenses are committed on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act. The bill provided that the sheriff shall disclose sex offender information to the boards of institutions of higher education or other appropriate administrative offices of each non-public institution of higher education located in the county where the sex offender is required to register, resides, or is attending an institution of higher education. [92nd GA, HB 5874, 3R P 55-0-0, 5/7/02; Adopt CC Report P 54-0-1, 5/31/03; PA 92- 0828, 8/22/02]

Obama Passed Law to Require EMS For Sexual Assault Survivors To Include Coverage For Emergency Contraception.
Obama was the chief co-sponsor and voted for adding, as an additional criterion for IDPH approval for a hospital's plan for emergency services for sexual assault survivors, that the plan must provide sufficient protections from the risk of pregnancy by the sexual assault survivor. Bill requires that hospitals providing such services develop and implement protocol that ensures that each sexual assault survivor receives medically and factually accurate information about emergency contraception. [92nd GA; SB 0114; 2001; Signed into law 7/25/01, PA 92-0156]

Obama Passed a Bill Eliminating Good Behavior Time For Sex Offenders.
Obama sponsored and passed a bill to amend the County Jail Good Behavior Allowance Act by stipulating that any convict may not receive time off for good behavior if he has been incarcerated for sexual assault or aggravated sexual abuse. [91st GA, SB 0485, 3/11/99, 3R P; 54-1-2; P.A. 91-0117, 7/15/99; Senate Floor Transcript, 3/11/99, p. 74]


Obama Passed Law to Extend Statute Of Limitations On Certain Sexual Offenses.
Obama was the chief co-sponsor and voted for bill extending the statute of limitations for several criminal sexual offenses, including aggravated criminal sexual assault. [91st GA; HB 0329; 1999; Signed into law 8/11/99, PA 91-0475]

Obama Sponsored Illinois Senate Version Of The Bill That Would Seal Sexual Assault Victim's Records.
Obama sponsored a bill that would amend the Criminal Identification Act to provide that the victim of criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, criminal sexual abuse, or aggravated criminal sexual abuse, may request that the State's Attorney file a petition with the trial judge to have the court records of the case sealed. The bill provided that, upon order of the court for good cause shown, the records may be made available for public inspection. [91st GA, SB 943, 1999, 3R P 58-0-0, 3/23/99, Total Veto Stands, 11/18/99]

SB 943 Was Amended To Include The Exact Bill Language Of HB 854 Before Obama Signed On As A Sponsor.
Obama was the chief co-sponsor of and voted for SB 943, which would amend the Criminal Identification Act to provide that the victim of criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, criminal sexual abuse, or aggravated criminal sexual abuse, may request that the State's Attorney file a petition with the trial judge to have the court records of the case sealed. The bill provided that, upon order of the court for good cause shown, the records may be made available for public inspection. Obama signed onto the bill after the original language was amended to include the same language of HB 854. [91st GA, SB 943, 1999, 3R P 58-0-0, 3/23/99, Total Veto Stands, 11/18/99]

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Obama Passed Equal Pay Act In Illinois To Give 330,000 More Women Protection From Pay Discrimination.
Obama co-sponsored and voted for the Equal Pay Act which provided that no employer may discriminate between employees on the basis of sex by paying ages solely on the basis of the employee's gender. According to the AP, the "Illinois Equal Pay Act expands the federal Equal Pay Act of 1963 to give about 330,000 more women in the state protection from gender-based discrimination in pay" by applying the law to companies that employee 4 or more people, rather than the federal standard of fifteen. Obama attended the bill signing on Mother's Day of 2003. [93rd GA; SB 0002; 2003; Signed into law, 5/11/03, PA 93-0006; AP, 5/11/03; Chicago Tribune, 5/8/03; Chicago Tribune, 5/12/03]

Obama Passed A Law To Create The Victims Economic Security And Safety Act(VESSA), Which Would Help Victims Of Abuse Seek Treatment Without Losing Their Job.
Obama was the chief sponsor and voted to created the Victims' Economic Security and Safety Act. The bill provided that an employee who is a victim of domestic or sexual violence, or who has a family or household member who is a victim of domestic or sexual violence whose interests are not adverse to the employee, may take leave from work to address domestic or sexual violence by: seeking medical attention for, or recovering from, physical or psychological injuries caused by domestic or sexual violence to the employee or the employee's family or household member; obtaining services from a victim services organization for the employee or the employee's family or household member; obtaining psychological or other counseling for the employee or the employee's family or household member; participating in safety planning, temporarily or permanently relocating, or taking other actions to increase the safety of the employee or the employee's family or household member from future domestic or sexual violence or ensure economic security; or seeking legal assistance or remedies to ensure the health and safety of the employee or the employee's family or household member, including preparing for or participating in any civil or criminal legal proceeding related to or derived from domestic or sexual violence. The Chicago Tribune reported, "But VESSA, as it is known, allows time off for personal issues not covered by the FMLA and is designed to help victims keep their jobs." Obama said he sponsored the bill after being approached by several advocacy group for battered women. "They came to me and indicated how difficult it is for victims of physical and sexual abuse to deal with the repercussions of an assault and then try to balance it with work and everything else." [93rd GA; HB 3486; 3R P 58-0-0, 5/20/03; Signed into law 8/25/03, PA 93-0591; Chicago Tribune, 8/20/03; University Wire, 8/22/03]

Obama Passed Into Law a Requirement that Women And Minority Scientists/Engineers Be Represented And Consulted on Specific Technology and Science Efforts.
In 2007, Obama sponsored an amendment, which became law, to the America Competes Act requiring that minorities and females be represented and consulted during the development of innovation/competitiveness strategies at the National Science and Technology Summit (NSTS), on the President's Council on Innovation and Competitiveness, and elsewhere. [S.Amdts. 923, Agreed to by unanimous consent, 4/25/07; S. 761, Incorporated into H.R. 2272, which became P.L. 110-289, 8/9/07]


Obama Passed Into Law An Amendment Creating A Mentoring Program For Women And Underrepresented Groups At DOE.
In 2007, Obama sponsored an amendment, which became law, to the America Competes Act that established a mentoring program to support women and underrepresented groups as they progress through education programs proposed by the Department of Energy. The amendment was included in the final version of the bill that passed Congress and was signed into law. [S.Amdts. 905, Agreed to by unanimous consent, 4/25/07, S. 761, Incorporated into H.R. 2272, which became P.L. 110-289, 8/9/07]

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[Abrien Cane]

Looks pretty strong, if you ask me, and, as you can  see, it's not just limited to choice.

[Volitzer]

Okay, 1st I've heard of it.