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Alyssa Milano: I don't have equal rights under the Constitution -- yet (mega barf alert)
CNN ^ | 10/5/2018 | Alyssa Milano

Posted on 10/08/2018 7:06:23 PM PDT by simpson96

"My name is Alyssa Milano, and I do not have equal rights under our Constitution. I have a three-year-old daughter named Bella. She does not have equal rights under the Constitution, either."

This is how I began my testimony at a Congressional shadow hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) just a few months ago. At that point, I didn't think it could be possible to feel more urgency about insisting that women be protected in our government's highest legal document, the US Constitution. I was wrong.

Now, as I watch Brett Kavanaugh's likely ascension to the Supreme Court, it feels like a new kind of violation, proving we need an Equal Rights Amendment so that our justice system has the tools to treat women equally under the law.

Our country has allowed men like Brett Kavanaugh to use our founding documents to preserve their power and privilege, while denying women protection from the consequences of their actions. That is because, for most of our country's history, the Constitution has treated anyone who is not a white, land-owning man to be a second-class citizen -- a legacy the document has yet to shed.

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I am not asserting that Brett Kavanaugh opposes constitutional equality for women and men, but then again, I do not know. And his actions, I do not trust.

What I do know -- what all of us have seen proven beyond a doubt -- is that our country's 200-plus-year history of subjugating women has come at a devastating price. In recent months, we've heard an outpouring of firsthand accounts about what life as a second-class citizen in this country is like.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: alyssamilano; clintonnonnews; cnn; dopeydems; nitwit; repealthe19th
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To: simpson96

Make her equal... put urinals in the women’s restroom.


41 posted on 10/08/2018 7:56:08 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: simpson96

Ohh yes you do Alyssa. You have all the rights ...
to the kitchen to make me a samwich and then shut the hell up!


42 posted on 10/08/2018 7:56:22 PM PDT by Bommer (Help out 2ndDivisionVet and his wife - https://www.gofundme.com/married-recent-amputee)
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To: simpson96

Ugh! Are they trying to dredge up that stupid ERA amendment again?


43 posted on 10/08/2018 7:59:11 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: TigerClaws

LMAO...the look on those 3 faces tell quite a tale


44 posted on 10/08/2018 8:00:34 PM PDT by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: simpson96

The left is delusional


45 posted on 10/08/2018 8:04:49 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: simpson96

” while denying women protection from the consequences of their actions.”

AND THERE IT IS, ladies and gentlemen... the mantra of the liberals and feminists.

PROTECTION from the CONSEQUENCES of their OWN ACTIONS.


46 posted on 10/08/2018 8:06:29 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: silverleaf
What rights does her unfortunate daughter not have?

Same rights that she wants and the DEMS/Liberals want. It was in the excerpt. Right there in her own words.

" protection from the consequences of their actions."

Abortion, hiring illegals, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, child abuse, deviant sexuality, murder.... you name it, they want PROTECTION from the CONSEQUENCES. For themselves, but not for you.

47 posted on 10/08/2018 8:12:52 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: simpson96

Never heard of this woman until four days ago....that’s what you get when you don’t watch CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, etc.....


48 posted on 10/08/2018 8:16:36 PM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: SirLurkedalot
the look on those 3 faces tell quite a tale

The one of the right is the 'nursing home patient' face.

49 posted on 10/08/2018 8:19:13 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: simpson96

As a woman she has more contrived rights and special protected class privileges in this country than all men do.


50 posted on 10/08/2018 8:20:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai
and by special labor and health protection measures for women; by providing conditions enabling mothers to work; by legal protection, and material and moral support for mothers and children, including paid leaves and other benefits for expectant mothers and mothers, and gradual reduction of working time for mothers with small children.

So they are not equal because they don't get special treatment??

51 posted on 10/08/2018 8:21:45 PM PDT by oldbrowser (The government did not create the people. The people created the government.)
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To: oldbrowser

That’s the idea. The ERA was based on such laws. It’s a direct attack on the family, per the Marxist dogma of “abolition of the family”.


52 posted on 10/08/2018 8:24:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: simpson96
These Milanos are smarter than Alyssa.


53 posted on 10/08/2018 8:30:31 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: UCANSEE2

More like the “his dark powers are barely sustaining me despite my devotion to evil” face.


54 posted on 10/08/2018 8:38:26 PM PDT by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: simpson96

Dance, Monkey, Dance!


55 posted on 10/08/2018 8:42:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: peggybac
I would like to see this ding bat get dropped off in a place where there are no white males. A place like Iran or somewhere in Africa.
56 posted on 10/08/2018 8:44:22 PM PDT by Peeps47 (Democrats are as corrupt as they are incompetent)
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To: simpson96

“...while denying women protection from the consequences of their actions.”

I’ve always been responsible for the consequences of my actions, and I’m a guy. Guessing she wants her own special rights under the Constitution?


57 posted on 10/08/2018 8:50:27 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: simpson96

She needs to find a nice guy and make him a sammich.


58 posted on 10/08/2018 8:52:59 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: simpson96

Give her a break. She has the same IQ as the cookie she is named after.


59 posted on 10/08/2018 8:55:09 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: simpson96

Alyssa, sweety, there is no right to get cast. I realize that you’re only getting one gig a year in non starring roles. Your last movie isn’t even breaking a million bucks. You are, to put it mildly, washed up. You’re a “D” list actress whose antics turn casting directors off. Your SAG card it more useful to jimmy locks than it is for getting roles. You’re in violation of
Global Rule Two: Dont be so wierd that you’re on the direct-to-video list. So yes, you have every right under the constitution. You’re just a would be has-been.


60 posted on 10/08/2018 8:59:11 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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