Her office is in the theatre district, but it has been awhile since Hillary has treated herself to a show. Sunday night she was feted at Town Hall by a slew of stars at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser, and last night she saw the Tony Award winning Dear Evan Hansen.
This is a snide article, but here it is. The photo is nice.
Broadway stars were proud to host failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday night for "an evening that was all about women, by women, and for women," according to InStyle.
"Tony and Grammy winners packed The Town Hall theater in N.Y.C. for a special concert all about women's empowerment called 'Double Standards,'" reports InStyle. "Everyone from 'Waitress' lyricist Sara Bareilles to 'The Great Comet of 1812's' former Sonya Rostova, Ingrid Michaelson, sang about women's rights, Hillary Clinton, and standing up in the face of the patriarchy, with 100 percent of the proceeds from the concert tickets and donations going toward Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and the Breast Cancer Coalition." Read more >>>>
This article is much nicer, and. Ben Platt, clearly, was thrilled
The cast of Dear Evan Hansen got a surprise on Wednesday evening—as did the literal cast from the award-winning Broadway musical.Hillary Clinton attended the show and got some face time with the show's Tony-winning star Ben Platt on Wednesday.Platt tweeted photos of the meeting, calling her "Our real president" and showing off that she signed his character's infamous cast. Read more >>>>
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When I receive email polls asking me the "most important issue" for
me in this election, I have to wonder whether the organizations sending
them have listened at all to what Hillary Clinton has been saying. Once
again today, in her first public speech since clinching the nomination,
Hillary explained patiently, that the many issues she has been
addressing intersect and should be viewed as a cloth. The
issues are not patches to be sewn together. The very threads are
interwoven as a fabric within the society. This is why she will not
attack one single signature issue when she walks into the Oval Office.
She does not see the issues as isolated from each other but rather as
essentially interrelated.
There were those
who criticized her when she went to the State Department. She made the
issues of women and girls her signature struggle. Later that expanded
and extended to gender issues. Some said it was a "soft" issue and
questioned why not a major initiative like Middle East peace. As it
turned out, it was not a soft issue. Nor, as she explained so often,
were the related issues confined to women but rather affected whole
families including husbands, brothers, fathers, and sons. It was a wise
and flexible choice in a diverse world.
In the same way, her view of the issues we face today and her solutions to the problems are a multifaceted approach.
Today,
Hillary Clinton gave her first speech since clinching the nomination at
Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Clinton’s remarks highlighted the
progressive issues of women’s health and reproductive justice that have
been important to her throughout her career, and throughout the primary.
Clinton thanked the Planned Parenthood family for everything they do,
and have been doing for decades, to make sure all women have access to
quality affordable healthcare. Clinton recognized how far we have come
in advancing women’s rights but also pointed out the very real threat
Donald Trump poses to this progress. As Clinton said, “We’re in the
middle of a concerted, persistent assault on women’s health across our
country. And we have to ask ourselves and ask everyone we come in
contact with: Do we want to put our health, our lives, our futures in
Donald Trump’s hands?” The transcript of Clinton’s remarks, as delivered, is below:
“Thank you. Hello. Thank you, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you all. I have to say, pink never looked so good.
I
want to thank my friend, and your courageous leader, Cecile Richards.
Cecile really is the definition of grace under pressure. She has proven
that time and time again over the course of her career, particularly
over the last few years. She really is like another great American, her
mother, Ann Richards, who was a friend of mine, and I just wish Ann were
here to see this election. She’d have Donald Trump tweeting double
time.
We reached a milestone together this week. Thanks to you,
and people all over our country, for the first time, a woman will be a
major party’s nominee for President of the United States.
And
yesterday, I had the great honor of being endorsed by President Obama
and Vice President Biden. And by Senator Elizabeth Warren.
So it’s been a big week. And there’s nowhere I’d rather end it than right here, with the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
I’m
grateful to the entire Planned Parenthood family. You made this
campaign your own. Whether you knocked on doors in Iowa or rallied in
California, this victory belongs to all of you.
It belongs to the one thousand young activists who came together in Pittsburgh last month to get organized.
It
belongs to the staff, the donors, and to the providers. Providers like
Dr. Amna Dermish in Texas, who called out Donald Trump when he said
women should be punished for having abortions. And the open letter she
wrote defending her patients’ right to make their own health decisions
should be required reading for every politician in America.
I am
deeply conscious of the reality that this victory belongs to generations
of brave women and men who fought for the radical idea that women
should determine our own lives and futures.
And it belongs to the women and men who continue to fight for that idea today, even in the face of threats and violence.
When
a man who never should have had a gun killed three people at Planned
Parenthood in Colorado Springs, leaders in this room voted unanimously
to keep health centers across America open the next day.
The CEO,
the CEO of Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains made a promise to patients
in Colorado and beyond when she said: ‘Our doors – and our hearts –
stay open.’
That is really what Planned Parenthood is all about.
So today, I want to say something you don’t hear often enough: thank you.
Thank you for being there for women, no matter their race, sexual orientation, or immigration status.
Thank
you for being there for Natarsha McQueen in Brooklyn, who told me how
Planned Parenthood caught her breast cancer when she was just 33 years
old, and saved her life.
Thank you for being there for college
students getting STD testing. The young people who have the tough
questions that they’re afraid to ask their parents. The sexual assault
survivors who turn to Planned Parenthood for compassionate care. The
transgender teens who come for an appointment and find the first place
where they can truly be themselves.
Thank you for being there for
your communities – whether that means taking on hostile politicians in
Louisiana or handing out clean drinking water in Flint, Michigan.
And
thank you for being there for every woman in every state who has to
miss work; drive hundreds of miles sometimes; endure cruel, medically
unnecessary waiting periods; walk past angry protesters to exercise her
constitutional right to safe and legal abortion.
I’ve been proud to stand with Planned Parenthood for a long time. And as president, I will always have your back.
Because
I know for a century, Planned Parenthood has worked to make sure that
the women, men, young people who count on you can lead their best lives –
healthy, safe and free to follow their dreams.
Just think when
Planned Parenthood was founded, women couldn’t vote or serve on juries
in most states. It was illegal even to provide information about birth
control, let alone prescribe it.
But people marched and
organized. They protested unjust laws and, in some cases, even went to
prison. And slowly but surely, America changed for the better. 51 years
ago this week, thanks to a Planned Parenthood employee named Estelle
Griswold, the Supreme Court legalized birth control for married couples
across America. When I used to teach law, and I would point to this
case, a look of total bewilderment would come across my students’ faces.
And not long after that, Roe v. Wade guaranteed the right to safe,
legal abortion.
So young women were no longer dying in emergency
rooms and back alleys from botched, illegal abortions. And this is a
fact that is not often heard, but I hope you will repeat it: America’s
maternal mortality rate dropped dramatically.
And it turns out,
being able to plan their families not only saved women’s lives, it also
transformed them – because it meant that women were able to get
educations, build careers, enter new fields, and rise as far as their
talent and hard work would take them – all the opportunities that follow
when women are able to stay healthy and choose whether and when to
become mothers.
And you know so well, today, the percentage of
women who finish college is six times what it was before birth control
was legal. Women represent half of all college graduates in America and
nearly half our labor force.
And our whole economy, then, is
better off. The movement of women into the workforce, the paid
workforce, over the past 40 years was responsible for more than three
and a half trillion dollars in growth in our economy.
And here’s
another fact that doesn’t get much attention: unintended pregnancy, teen
pregnancy, and abortion rates are at all time record lows. That
reality and studies confirm what Planned Parenthood knew all along:
Accurate sex education and effective, affordable contraception work.
And,
it wasn’t so long ago, Republicans and Democrats could actually stand
together on these issues. Back in the ‘90s, when I helped create the
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, I worked with Republicans
to get it done.
Now things feel quite a bit different now, don’t they?
Instead of working to continue the progress we’ve made, Republicans, led now by Donald Trump, are working to reverse it.
When
Donald Trump says, ‘Let’s make America great again,’ that is code for
‘let’s take America backward.’ Back to a time when opportunity and
dignity were reserved for some, not all. Back to the days when abortion
was illegal, women had far fewer options, and life for too many women
and girls was limited.
Well, Donald, those days are over.
We are not going to let Donald Trump or anyone else turn back the clock.
And
that means we’ve got to get to work. Because as you know better than
anyone, right now, across the country, rights that women should be able
to take for granted are under attack.
Any day now, the Supreme
Court will rule on the Texas law that imposes burdensome and medically
unnecessary requirements on abortion providers. If these restrictions
are allowed to stand, 5.4 million women of reproductive age will be left
with about 10 health centers that provide abortion – in a state the
size of France. It is the biggest challenge to Roe v. Wade in a
generation.
It’s also yet another reminder of what’s at stake on
the Supreme Court. President Obama has done his job, and nominated
Merrick Garland to be the ninth justice. It’s time for Senate
Republicans to do their job. The Senate should give Judge Garland the
hearing he deserves.
Now, meanwhile, in just the first three
months of 2016, states across the country introduced more than 400
restrictions on abortion. 11 states have defunded Planned Parenthood in
the last year, cutting some women off from their only health care
provider. And of course, on a national level, Republicans in Congress
have been willing to shut down the entire federal government over
Planned Parenthood funding.
Have you ever noticed that the same
politicians who are against sex education, birth control, and safe and
legal abortion, are also against policies that would make it easier to
raise a child – like paid family leave?
They are for limited government everywhere except when it comes to interfering with women’s choices and rights.
Well I’m here today to tell you we need to be just as determined as they are.
We
need to defend Planned Parenthood against partisan attacks. If
right-wing politicians actually cared as much about protecting women’s
health as they say they do, they’d join me in calling for more federal
funding for Planned Parenthood.
We also need to fight back against
the erosion of reproductive rights at the federal, state, and local
levels, and ensure that patients and staff can safely walk into health
centers without harassment or violence.
We need to, we need to
stand up for access to affordable contraception, without interference
from politicians or employers. And let’s invest in long-acting
reversible contraceptives, so every woman can choose the method that is
best for her. Let’s strengthen and improve the Affordable Care Act,
which covers 20 million Americans and saves women millions of dollars
through no-copay preventive care.
Let’s take action to stop the spread of the Zika virus, which threatens the health of children and pregnant women.
Let’s
repeal laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it nearly impossible,
make it nearly impossible for low-income women, disproportionately women
of color, to exercise their full reproductive rights.
And, it is
worth saying again: defending women’s health means defending access to
abortion – not just in theory, but in reality. We know that restricting
access doesn’t make women less likely to end a pregnancy. It just
makes abortion less safe. And that then threatens women’s lives.
For
too long, issues like these have been dismissed by many as ‘women’s
issues’ – as though that somehow makes them less worthy, secondary.
Well,
yes, these are women’s issues. They’re also family issues. They’re
economic issues. They’re justice issues. They’re fundamental to our
country and our future.
Beyond these specific issues, we need to
keep working to support women and families in other ways – by getting
incomes rising, including the minimum wage, which disproportionately
affects women; we need to finally guarantee equal pay for women’s work;
we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform with a path to
citizenship that keeps families together; and we need to break down all
the barriers of discrimination and systemic racism that hold too many
Americans back. We need to come together to stop the epidemic of gun
violence that is stalking our country. No parent should live in fear
that their child will be hurt or killed by gun violence. 33,000
Americans are killed every year. I’ve met so many mothers on this
campaign who have lost their own children. We owe it to them to protect
our kids no matter what ZIP code they live in. And that is going to
require standing up to the gun lobby and making this a voting issue.
All
the issues we’re talking about today are connected. They intersect.
And that’s why I’m grateful to the reproductive justice leaders in this
room and across America. Because you know that all those issues go
straight to that fundamental question: whether we believe women and
families of all races and backgrounds and income levels deserve an equal
shot in life.
Now that’s what I believe and you won’t be surprised to hear – Donald Trump believes something very different.
He
actually thinks guaranteeing paid family leave would leave America less
competitive. He says if women want equal pay, we should just – and
this is a quote – ‘do as good a job’ as men – as if we weren’t already.
He
wants to appoint justices who want to overturn Roe V. Wade. He of
course wants to defund Planned Parenthood. And he wants to go after so
many of the fundamental rights we have, including safe and legal
abortions. And he actually said, ‘women should be punished for having
abortions.’ Now, once he said that there was an outcry, as there should
have been, and he tried to walk back his comments. He’s doing that a lot
lately.
But anyone who would so casually agree to the idea of
punishing women – like it was nothing to him, the most obvious thing in
the world – that is someone who doesn’t hold women in high regard.
Because if he did, he’d trust women to make the right decisions for
ourselves.
But don’t worry. Donald assures us that, as President, he’ll be – and I quote again – ‘the best for women.’
Anyone who wants to defund Planned Parenthood, and wipe out safe, legal abortion has no idea what’s best for women.
And
after all this is a man who has called women ‘pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ and
‘disgusting animals.’ Kind of hard to imagine counting on him to
respect our fundamental rights?
When he says pregnant women are an
‘inconvenience’ to their employer, what does that say about how he
values women – our work, our contributions?
We’re in the middle of
a concerted, persistent assault on women’s health across our country.
And we have to ask ourselves and ask everyone we come in contact with:
Do we want to put our health, our lives, our futures in Donald Trump’s
hands?
Now, these questions aren’t hypothetical. Every woman –
and everyone who cares about women – will answer them when they vote in
November.
When I talk like this, Donald Trump likes to say I’m
playing the ‘woman card.’ And I like to say, if fighting for equal pay,
Planned Parenthood, and the ability to make our own health decisions is
playing the woman card, then deal me in.
Now my friends, I come
to this issue, of course as a woman, a mother, and a grandmother now.
But I also come to it as a former First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of
State. And in those roles, in those roles, I traveled to parts of the
world where girls are married off as soon as they are old enough to bear
children. Places where the denial of family planning consigns women to
lives of hardship.
I visited countries where governments have
strictly regulated women’s reproduction – either forcing women to have
abortions or forcing women to get pregnant and give birth.
Everything
I have seen has convinced me that life is freer, fairer, healthier,
safer, and far more humane when women are empowered to make their own
reproductive health decisions.
And everything I’ve heard from Donald Trump, often seems to echo other leaders who have a very different view of women.
The late, great Maya Angelou said: ‘When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.’
Donald Trump has shown us who he is. And we sure should believe him.
It’s
not just on reproductive rights. Donald Trump would take us in the
wrong direction on so many issues we care about – economic justice,
workers’ rights, civil rights, human rights, the environment—all of that
is on the line in this election.
When Donald Trump says a
distinguished judge born in Indiana can’t do his job because of his
Mexican heritage, or mocks a reporter with disabilities, or denigrates
Muslims and immigrants, it goes against everything we stand for. He
does not see all Americans as Americans.
So this election isn’t
about the same old fights between Democrats and Republicans. They’ll be
there, don’t worry. But this election is profoundly different. It’s
about who we are as a nation. It’s about millions of Americans coming
together to say: We are better than this.
So here’s my promise to you today: I will be your partner in this election and over the long haul.
Together, we are taking on the attacks and together we’ll come out stronger – just like Planned Parenthood has, time and again.
And
together we’re going to unify our country, stop Donald Trump, and fight
for an America where we lift each other up, instead of tearing each
other down.
We’re not just going to break that highest and hardest
glass ceiling. We’re going to break down all the barriers that hold
women and families back.
We’re stronger when every family in every
community knows they’re not on their own. We are stronger together and
we are going to make history again in November.
Thank you all so, so much.”
At a rally in Manchester, Cecile Richards endorsed and introduced
Hillary who went on to speak on behalf of women's health, women's
rights, and Planned Parenthood's services in contrast to Republican
agendas and talking points.
Former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , a 2016 Democratic presidential
candidate, attended a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, where
she was expected to receive an endorsement from Planned Parenthood.
Cecile Richards,
Planned Parenthood's president, addresses an audience during an event
Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, in Hooksett, N.H., during which Planned
Parenthood endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in
the presidential race. The endorsement by the group's political arm
marks Planned Parenthood's first time wading into a presidential
primary. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, left, stands with
Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's president, right, during an event
Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, in Hooksett, N.H., during which Planned
Parenthood endorsed Clinton in the presidential race. The endorsement by
the group's political arm marks Planned Parenthood's first time wading
into a presidential primary. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, right, stands with
Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood's president, during an event Sunday,
Jan. 10, 2016, in Hooksett, N.H., during which Planned Parenthood
endorsed Clinton in the presidential race. The endorsement by the
group's political arm marks Planned Parenthood's first time wading into a
presidential primary. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
It should be noted that the organization is called Planned Parenthood not Planned Motherhood. The services include families' and men's health needs as well as women's. Defunding Planned Parenthood hurts families. As POTUS, Hillary will veto any such attempts.
