The Patriot Post® · Biden and Democrats' War on Women

Analysis: Republican National Committee

POLLS SHOW WOMEN ARE REJECTING BIDEN AND DEMOCRATS

• Biden’s radical policies have waged a war on women across the country, leading to women increasingly rejecting Biden – and the Democrat Party – for failing to best represent their interests.
  • Biden’s approval rating is at only 36 percent among women, with a majority of women disapproving of the way Biden is handing the economy.
  • An overwhelming 75 percent of women disapprove of the job the Democrat-controlled Congress is doing.
• Between skyrocketing inflation and far-left policies, it’s no wonder why 89 percent of females believe the country is on the wrong track.

THE BIDEN ECONOMY IS LEAVING WOMEN BEHIND

• Women and families are suffering under Biden’s economy, faced with rising prices and shortages of feminine hygiene products and baby formula.
  • A majority of women say inflation is the top issue of concern for their family.
• Biden has overseen a shortage on feminine hygiene products which has led women to resort to reportedly “using the insides of mattresses, cut-up dirty sheets and t-shirts” as a replacement to the products they need.
  • Bidenflation has caused tampons to rise by over 10 percent and pads to increase by 9 percent.
• On top of a tampon shortage, Biden has overseen a baby formula shortage with the in stock rate dropping “to the lowest level so far this year” despite the Biden administration knowing about the crisis since last year.
  • Katie Thompson, a mother of two: “I don’t know how I’m going to feed my child … now going to the shelves and there’s nothing there … this is scary.”
  • Ashleigh, a Jacksonville mother whose son needs a specific formula: “I cannot get food for my child. I cannot feed my son.”
  • Democrats have resorted to blaming worried mothers “buying a lot” for the formula shortage.
• It’s not just infants that mothers across the country are struggling to feed – moms are also having trouble feeding their families amid 40-year high inflation.
  • In North Carolina, a mother who resorted to a local food pantry said, “it’s devastating. Right now times [are] so hard to feed my kids." 
  • In Georgia, a mother and father are now confronted with the choice "don’t let the kids have seconds or forgo a meal themselves.”

DEMOCRATS CAN’T EVEN DEFINE WHAT A WOMAN IS

• In April, Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was unable to define what a woman is, claiming she was “not a biologist.”
• Biden’s FY 2021 and 2022 budgets replaced the word “mothers” with “birthing people.”
  • When questioned about using “birthing people” in the budget, Biden’s OMB Deputy Director Shalanda Young doubled down.  
• Biden and Democrats’ radical “Build Back Broke” agenda repeatedly refers to mothers as “pregnant,” “lactating,” and “postpartum individuals.”
• Biden’s CDC used the term “pregnant person” in their COVID-19 vaccine guidance.
• Democrats have given a voice to the far-left radicals in their party who push these ideas:
  • Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) has referred to pregnant women as “birthing people.”
  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) referred to a woman as a “menstruating person.”
  • Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) referred to women as “menstruating people.”
  • In July, a pro-abortion witness invited by Democrats to testify in front of Congress claimed it is “dangerous” to say men can’t get pregnant.
  • In May, another pro-abortion witness invited to testify by congressional Democrats said “yes” men can become pregnant.

BIDEN AND DEMOCRATS ATTACK WOMEN’S SPACES

• Instead of standing for the rights of female students and athletes, Biden has caved to far-left, woke activists who want biological males to compete in women’s sports.
  • On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order calling on schools across the country to allow students to compete in the sport of their “gender identity.”
  • Biden’s Department of Agriculture announced it will take away meal funding for low-income and disadvantaged kids at schools if the school does not allow biological males to play in women’s sports.
• On the 50^th anniversary of Title IX, Biden’s Department of Education “issued a new rule” which redefined the word “women.”
  • This move has “opened sex-segregated spaces like bathrooms, locker rooms, dorm rooms and single-sex admissions programs to anyone who identifies as a woman” and removed “commonsense” student protections in “campus sexual assault and harassment proceedings.”
• This is ruining sports for female athletes, enabling biological men to compete and earn college scholarships at their expense.
  • Alanna Smith, a Connecticut high school track athlete forced to compete against biological males, said, “I felt like the race was over before I even began.” 
  • Madisan DeBos, a track athlete at Southern Utah University, said it is “heartbreaking” that all of her hard work could be stripped away by “allowing biological males to compete.”
• In January, the Biden administration changed federal prison policy to let prisoners be incarcerated with the gender they identify as, including letting biological males be housed with female inmates.
  • Because of Biden’s radical policies, two female inmates at an all-female prison were impregnated by a biological male who claimed to identify as a female.

DEMOCRATS WANT TO TAKE AWAY SUPPORT FOR VULNERABLE MOTHERS

• Democrats have called to shut down the approximately 3,000 life-affirming pregnancy centers that help a mother throughout her pregnancy and after.
  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said “we need to put a stop” to crisis pregnancy centers “right now” and called for the centers to be “shut down… all around the country.”
  • Sen.Bob Mendez (D-NJ), Warren, and other prominent Democrats introduced legislation to “crack down” on crisis pregnancy centers that help women keep their babies.
  • Gov. Gretchen Witmer (D-MI) vetoed millions of dollars from going to crisis pregnancy centers and smeared these non-profit organizations as “fake health centers.”
• Pro-abortion radicals have targeted and attacked pregnancy centers across the country as Democrats refuse to denounce the violence.
  • In California, a man with a machete attempted to attack a pregnancy center but was stopped before he could cause harm.
  • In Colorado, a pregnancy center was set on fire.
  • In Virginia, pro-abortion radicals smashed the windows of a pro-life center and graffitied “you ain’t safe.”
  • In Tennessee, a pregnancy center was attacked with Molotov cocktails. 

Originally posted here.