Wendy Davis served on the Fort Worth city council and represented district 10 in the Texas senate from 2009 to 2015. She is a democrat in a historically republican state with strong views on abortion, gun laws, and the death penalty. She is also a woman in an occupation highly dominated by men. Recently, abortion has been a highly controversial topic, fueling heated debates in Congress and among state officials. In 2013, Wendy Davis took a stand on abortion and held a successful, 13-hour filibuster to delay the passing of an abortion bill. This brought national attention to her legacy and to Texas’ efforts in abortion prevention.
This bill, (the House Bill 2) includes amendments that would legislate some of the most confining abortion regulations
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Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a majority opinion tied to the case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt on March 2, 2016. This case involves “a group of abortion providers who sued the State of Texas seeking to invalidate the provisions related to facilities in McAllen and El Paso. They argued that H.B.2 denied equal protection, unlawfully delegated lawmaking authority, and constituted arbitrary and unreasonable state actions” (Whole Woman’s). Ginsburg wrote that “When a State severely limits access to safe and legal procedures, women in desperate circumstances may resort to unlicensed rogue practitioners ... at great risk to their health and safety” …show more content…
Abbott received almost 60 percent of the vote while Davis reported 38.9 percent, around a 20-point margin. Davis trailed largely with white voters and women, but beat Abbott among Latinos and African Americans (Texas). This was not necessarily a surprise to most people though.
Davis said that the obstacles she had to overcome, involving those revolved around her personal life, family, and parenting, were much larger and varied greatly compared to those that she would’ve faced if she were a male candidate.
Even with the loss, Wendy Davis has not stopped advocating for women. She has been reported to be working to launch a women’s equality initiative. She also has been working with abortion clinics and Pro-Choice organizations to make strides towards giving women the choice of what to do with their body. She hopes to return to office but in the meantime will not stop working to protect and enhance women’s rights. Davis is a courageous leader and a wonderful role model for young girls to stand up for what they believe in and to never give
In many documents describing Eleanor Roosevelt, she is explained as being either one of two oppositional extremes - an amazing humanitarian, or a stoic business woman. These kind of contradictions penalise Eleanor, creating confusion amongst Americans. Some causes of hers were also contradictory - for example, she was a strong believer in liberal women, yet rejected the Equal Rights Amendment. Eleanor believed that the Equal Rights Amendment would jeopardise the laws she had fought to put into place for women - such as minimum wage laws and exclusion from dangerous jobs. However, Eleanor was and remains to be an influential figure for strong women worldwide. She stated in Redbook Magazine, “Women must learn to play the game as men do.” She worked hard to ensure women were involved in politics, by emphasising that women speak their minds on the issues they face. Being such an active and outspoken First Lady was revolutionary and extremely important for the country to see. In this way, Eleanor’s contradictions can be overlooked as the causes she worked for inspired many generations of socially aware Americans.
The Texas anti-abortion law has taken the country’s attention by storm. It is an issue on many different woman’s minds, especially those who live in the state of Texas. The new laws are forcing many woman to have to cross state lines in order to receive an abortion and medical care. This includes woman who needs abortions due to preexisting medical conditions and those who are carrying fetuses which are diseased and are expected not to be born as healthy babies. The Texas Governor Rick Perry and Senator Ted Cruz are leading the fight for the abortion laws to become permanent, laws that are considered the strictest abortion laws that this country has ever seen.
FACTS: in 1973 with the passing of Roe v. Wade, women were guaranteed, under a right to privacy in which the woman has the right to choose whether or not to get an abortion, however, this right was not confirmed to be absolute. Nearly 20 years later, in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the “central holdings” of Roe v. Wade were reaffirmed, by providing limits in which federal and state governments can regulate abortion. Unfortunately, conflict arose between Casey and Roe, when trying to ensure the woman still has a right to choose, which lead to allowing a prohibition of late-term abortions, unless the health of the mother was at stake. Next, in 2000, the case of Stenberg v. Carhart forced the court to consider a Nebraska state law that was passed banning late-term abortions and whether the statute was unconstitutional, which it was found to be, because the statute did not include an exception for the health of the mother and that the language used was so broad that it burdened a woman’s right to choose. Then, in 2007, the case of Gonzales v. Carhart raised the issue once again on a federal law that had been passed, the Partial-Birth Ban Act of 2003. The lower courts claimed it to be unconstitutional because of the lack of exception for the health of the mother. This Act however, was found to be constitutional and The Supreme Court decided to look once again at the precedent, under stare decisis
She is standing up various other important issues which will make the United State of America a better place to deserve the rights and freedom and strengthen the power of all the people living here in this great
Many women have faced difficult paths to get elected into office whether they are Hispanic, African American, or White. Even if they had all the qualities or they were overqualified they failed based on their gender, race, or lack of confidence in themselves.
Texas is undoubtedly one of the most difficult states in which to be a Congressional Senator. The reason that I state this is for multiple reasons; the size of the state, the high variability of the constituency base, the complexities of having both urban and rural areas, and the strong religious base that is prevalent in the southern region of the United States.
Her determination has made various beneficial adjustments to the government possible, such as The Sunlight Foundation. Her moral character and compassionate family reveals why she is pushing for more honesty and less secrets within politics and prove that her career as a politician is advantageous to the entire country. Furthermore, she repealed the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” which discriminated against gay people and passed the STOCK Act to further her fight for an uncorrupt government. She managed to win a mainly Republican district and was rewarded the senator position for her hard work and dedication to serving her state. As a politician, she definitely exhibits qualities that make her successful and that other senators should pay mind
Her influence is apparent to her chairing of the Democratic national committee’s platform for women’s issues in 1924. She came across obstacles as she was made to sit outside the conference and all ideas were scrapped, however she and other women leaders fought back and forced the committee to appoint both women delegates and alternates. Informing her of the place of women in political affairs, she saw “for the first time where the women stood when it came to a national convention. I shortly discovered that they were of little importance. They stood outside the door of all important meetings and waited.” In response, she doubled her efforts and by 1928 she organised an extremely successful get-out-the-vote campaigns while calling for women political bosses. She wanted to prove that women were capable, "Women must learn to play the game as men do” she wrote in an article for Redbook magazine. Her message spread and by 1936 internal lobbying produced 219 women delegates and 302 alternates. She inspired women to push the societal boundary of women in the 1930 changing both domestic and international feminist history. With the establishment of the New
She is prominently known for advocating same-sex marriage as well as her help getting the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy repealed, therefore permitting gay citizens to serve in the military.
Hillary Clinton gave her all in running against Donald Trump. Having such a strong female figure in the limelight was a great sense of motivation for other women and supportive others to get out and activate for themselves and their peers. She advocated on behalf of women, and made it known that it is possible for women to do great things. In fact, it is common for women to do great things. U.S. women joined together, took on the strength and courage that they found in Clinton, and used Clinton’s success as icing on the cake for their own activism.
In 1995, Hillary Clinton spoke in front of delegates from more than 180 countries about women’s rights. She focused on problems faced by women in all countries regarding their choices and rights. The purpose of her speech was to make women’s rights human rights in all countries including the United States. Throughout her speech, Hillary Clinton addresses the many issues and hardships women face and how important it is for women to be treated equally. She uses ethos by supporting and sympathizing with women in many different countries and what they have endured.
Fiorina’s journey has been an uphill battle and she openly admits she hasn’t always made the best decision when at a crossroad. Fiorina suffered the loss of a child, battled cancer, and continues to balance a successful business and political career. Persevering through adversity has allowed Fiorina to become passionate about issues close to Americans. Fiorina explains her struggle to find help for her daughter and how she experienced
For my political campaign project, I partnered up with Christina in my class to phone bank with Jane Kim’s campaign for California State Senate. Jane Kim is San Francisco’s Supervisor of District 11. She is a more than a capable and qualified candidate for the spot as a senator with her alma mater being Stanford University and UC Berkeley School of Law. In 2010, she was elected onto the District 6 Board of Supervisors and became the first Asian-American candidate to win an Asian district in the city. She was also the first Korean-American elected official in the city. She has been a part of the Board of Education and is a part of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and many of her policies, when she was running for State Senate, were closely
In the Year of Our Lord two thousand and fourteen, Texas will have a new governor. The incumbent Rick Perry has decided not to run for reelection. At the end of his current term, he will have been governor just shy of fourteen years. That is a long time. A man can only take so many slings and arrows, metaphorical or not. Now the governors office enters a new era, it will be the first open election for governor since 1990. The republican and democratic primaries have come and gone. Our choices are vanilla and less vanilla. Less vanilla is in the eye of the beholder. It would be nice if we could get rocky road or butter pecan. Democracy is an imperfect system, so we get imperfect candidates. Maybe some day we will get there, but today we work with what we have. The republican candidate is Greg Abbott, attorney general of Texas. The democratic candidate is Wendy Davis, a state senator from Forth Worth. Both won primaries handily, though Mr. Abbott won by a greater margin. Texas is a “red” state, which means that it is generally conservative or republican. This means that Ms. Davis has an uphill battle to win a statewide election. But a person more highly paid than me once said, “this is why we play the games”.
My candidate, Wendy Davis, is a woman who has faced several challenges, as we all have. Raised by a single mother, and being a single mother herself by the age of 19, she had to start working at a young age to help her mother out and later on to create a “better life for her young daughter.(Texas State Senator..)” This demonstrates the importance of family to her and how independent she is. She studied at Tarrant County Community College for two years and then transferred to Texas Christian University. Davis graduated first in her class with a bachelor’s degree and was accepted into Harvard Law.