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[Image of the day] ​In Trump's America, a room full of white men decide what women need

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DailyBiteMar 24, 2017 | 21:15

[Image of the day] ​In Trump's America, a room full of white men decide what women need

He boasted of grabbing women’s p**sy before he became president of the United States. Little wonder then a cabinet meeting with a fancy title such as the White House Freedom Caucus, which tried to make Trumpcare happen by repealing the current Obamacare, or the Affordable Health Care Act, didn’t have a single woman in a room full of at least 25 men, all white and certainly not feminists.

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President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence convened a meeting with the far-right House Freedom Caucus to discuss “women’s health”. Irony is out of date now that VP Pence had little qualm about tweeting out the picture, and he seemed to be in a rather self-congratulatory mode. (When is he not?)

Special assistant to President Trump, Cliff Sims, tweeted out another photo, this time of a standing ovation as Trump walked into the Cabinet room, in which the discussion centred around stunning ideas such as stripping the GOP care of insurance policy cover for maternity and newborn care, hospitalisation, preventive care, emergency room services, paediatric care, among other absolutely necessary medical services available under Obamacare.

How is it that a room full of white men decide the future of women’s health, their right to their bodies, their say on their own reproductive system, whether to have abortion or keep a baby, whether to choose motherhood or not, whether to have a baby as a single woman or not, and many other decisions that should best left to the women herself.

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An altogether relevant photo from the popular Netflix show Bojack Horseman. [Photo: Twitter]

Public healthcare service and insurance policies geared towards women’s health were the backbone of Obamacare, which the Republicans such as Paul Ryan and others have been dead against. As Trump stands for nothing but political equivalent of TRPs, his trashing Obamacare has less to do with conviction than with rank opportunism.

The cynical revulsion that liberal women, whether white, brown or black, feel towards these bunch of eggheads is evident in the following tweet by Democratic senator for Washington Patty Murray.

It’s also hardly unexpected that the very set of people, the arch-conservative Republicans who call the shots in Trump regime, who don’t want the insurance policies to cover prenatal and postnatal care, labour and delivery, etc, are trying their best to make birth control and abortion that much harder to access. 

The photo has since then gone viral on social media, inviting sharp criticism from women’s groups worldwide. Journalists too have tweeted out their nauseated reactions, and expressed concern. Some have compared the White House meeting with those happening in countries such as Saudi Arabia, where women are not even allowed to drive a car, or get beheaded if they go to a mall unaccompanied.

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Welcome to Talibanised America, folks.​

Last updated: March 24, 2017 | 21:15
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