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Biden Claims to Protect Women While Sending Afghanistan’s Back to the Stone Age
Townhall.com ^ | September 4, 2021 | Mary Szoch

Posted on 09/04/2021 5:33:59 AM PDT by Kaslin

In a statement issued on September 2, resident Biden called the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to leave a Texas pro-life law—that restricts abortion after an unborn child’s heartbeat is detected—in place “an unprecedented assault on women’s constitutional rights” and vowed to “launch a whole-of-government effort to respond to this decision.” Biden touted his own concern for women’s rights, saying the situation in Texas is an example of why he decided to create a Gender Policy Council “to be prepared to react to such assaults on women’s rights.”

resident Biden can style himself as a champion of women’s rights all he wants, but his recent decision to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan—which triggered the most significant women’s rights crisis of our time—makes it abundantly clear that he is not the champion of women he purports himself to be.

Over the past two weeks, Americans have watched in horror as the Taliban regimen of terror has taken control of Afghanistan. Scenes of mass chaos have flooded the news. Men, women, and children frantically trying to board airplanes; families with all of their belongings fleeing through the streets; women throwing their babies over barbed wire fences in a desperate attempt to save their lives—these are the current realities in Afghanistan.

Despite Taliban promises of tolerance—including offers of amnesty to former government officials and soldiers and guarantees of women’s rights “within the norms of Islamic law”—the Afghan people, especially women, are rightfully preparing for the worst.

For the Afghan women who lived under the Taliban’s control from 1996 to 2001, the fear of returning to a life dictated by the Taliban is overwhelming. Under previous Taliban rule, women could not attend school, work outside the home, or even leave the house without a male escort. Women who did not comply were beaten and sometimes killed. The life of a woman in Afghanistan under the Taliban was a life of coerced submission and fear.

After the United States and our allies defeated the Taliban in 2001, the lives of Afghan women improved significantly. Women had the ability to leave their houses alone, attend college, and embark on careers.

resident Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan—and ignore warnings from military intelligence that doing so would enable a Taliban takeover—changed all of this. Just days after encouraging women to return to work and school, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid issued a “temporary” policy stating women should stay in their homes. “We are worried our forces who are new and have not been yet trained very well may mistreat women…For now we are asking [women] to stay home until the situation gets normal.” This was the allegedly temporary policy the last time the Taliban had power, too. Once again, Afghan women’s lives are being threatened if they dare to venture outside their homes.

Yet, when referencing “unprecedented” assaults on women’s rights in his recent statement, resident Biden was not referring to the terrors of life for women under the Taliban. No. He was referencing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to interfere with a pro-life Texas law that protects unborn children in the womb after a heartbeat is detected.

After seeing so much death and destruction in Afghanistan, one would hope that resident Biden would be moved to protect the innocent and the vulnerable. Yet, once again, resident Biden has sworn to do everything in his power to put those incapable of defending themselves at risk. He warned he would “launch a whole-of-government effort to respond to this decision.” Just to be clear, the decision he is referring to is Texas’ decision to save the lives of unborn baby boys and girls. While mothers in Afghanistan struggle to survive and protect their children from an oppressive terrorist regime, resident Biden’s focus is on ensuring that abortionists in Texas can exploit women and end the lives of their children.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; women
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1 posted on 09/04/2021 5:33:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

And Ms. Szoch’s solution is what exactly?


2 posted on 09/04/2021 5:36:06 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Kaslin

If it wasn’t for double standards, Leftists would have no standards at all.


3 posted on 09/04/2021 5:41:06 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Realistically, you can go and worry about your local town, and maybe your county...once you go to worrying about some land 1,000 miles away...worrying doesn’t work.


4 posted on 09/04/2021 5:42:58 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Kaslin

The war on the unborn continues.


5 posted on 09/04/2021 5:43:44 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Kaslin

That’s been the demonicRATS’ m.o. on women for decades. Painting themselves as the defender of women while coddling sex traffickers, predators and mutilators.


6 posted on 09/04/2021 5:44:38 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Texas Eagle

Gloom, despair and agony on me.


7 posted on 09/04/2021 5:44:44 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: DoodleDawg

More money and more troops; it will work this time!!!


8 posted on 09/04/2021 5:50:27 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (NUKE MECCA. ABOLISH THE DEA, IRS, AND ATF)
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To: Eddie01

Great. Thanks a lot. Now I’ll be binge watching Hee Haw videos all day. I’m going to need a bigger case of beer.


9 posted on 09/04/2021 5:50:31 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Texas Eagle

Great pickin’, pretty girls and a few laughs.

That sounds like a good time to me!


10 posted on 09/04/2021 5:58:40 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Kaslin

Where are the screaming whores, Madonna judd Milano beyhar woopie


11 posted on 09/04/2021 5:59:14 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Kaslin

Biden is working for China.


12 posted on 09/04/2021 5:59:15 AM PDT by Spok (Those who can compel you to believe absurdities can compel you to commit atrocities.)
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To: Kaslin

What does Kamala have to say? /rhetorical


13 posted on 09/04/2021 5:59:39 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: RedStateRocker
More money and more troops; it will work this time!!!

Gee, why didn't we try that to begin with?

14 posted on 09/04/2021 5:59:57 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Kaslin

These rat 🐀 bastards nauseate me.


15 posted on 09/04/2021 6:00:24 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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To: Eddie01
Gloom, despair and agony on me.

Deep dark depression, excessive misery. 😀 Do you have any luck at all? 😂

16 posted on 09/04/2021 6:03:54 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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To: ronnie raygun

They’ve already released a statement accusing women in Trashkanistan who object to being subjugated of being Trump supporters, anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists who believe the 2020 election was stolen.


17 posted on 09/04/2021 6:05:54 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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18 posted on 09/04/2021 6:11:00 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Mark17

“excessive misery”

I fell out of my chair laughing! I forgot that part. Thanks!

With everything going on in the world, I needed that.

Have a great extended weekend!


19 posted on 09/04/2021 6:16:50 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01
Have a great extended weekend!

Thanks bro. Same to you and yours. 👍

20 posted on 09/04/2021 6:21:14 AM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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