Why I am voting for Hillary..
Current mood: sassy

I am voting for Hillary because her track records show that Hillary is for women and is very concerned with womens needs. Here is snip from the National Organization for Women Political Action Committe.(NOW PAC)

Saving the Courts

Hillary Clinton recognizes the importance of the federal judiciary and opposed the nominations of both of the recent Bush appointees to the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, and joined in the filibuster of Alito. As president, Clinton would nominate judges who respect women's rights.

Preserving Birth Control/Abortion Rights/Reproductive Justice

Senator Clinton has a strong record protecting and advancing a woman's right to control her body and to plan her family as she sees fit.

Birth Control: Clinton co-sponsored the Prevention First legislation in the senate and has long advocated for strengthening access to contraception, identifying realistic solutions to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, and improving access to women's health care. Clinton continues to champion increased funding for Title X family planning services, and insuring equitable insurance coverage for contraception, and has introduced new legislation to ensure Medicaid coverage of contraception for low-income women.

Emergency Contraception (EC): Clinton led the fight, along with Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) to force the Food and Drug Administration to allow emergency contraception to be sold in pharmacies without a doctor's prescription, increasing its accessibility for emergency use. Senator Clinton also supported legislation to create, expand and fund teen pregnancy prevention programs and education programs that would include access to emergency contraceptives.

Abortion: Senator Clinton's votes have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to a woman's right to safe, legal abortion, while at the same time working on programs to reduce the number of unintended and unwanted pregnancies.

Abortion Procedures Ban: Clinton voted both times against the federal abortion procedures ban; the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of that ban because of Alito's confirmation.

Young Women's Access: Clinton opposed a bill that would have made sisters, aunts, grandmothers, counselors, religious advisors -- indeed anyone who assists a minor in crossing the state line for an abortion without parental consent -- a felon. She actively campaigned against requiring parental notification for teen abortion, saying it would "put our most vulnerable teens at risk — teens who may already be endangered by negligent or even abusive homes."

Advancing Economic Justice

On every issue that affects the economic status of women and girls, Senator Clinton has advocated for a safer and more secure future.

Pay Equity: Clinton has supported and is the lead sponsor of the Paycheck Fairness Act. She has a robust track record promoting women's educational advancement and equality in the workplace.

Minimum Wage: Clinton has supported raising the minimum wage every time it has come up in Congress and understands that it is a fairness, anti-poverty and women's rights issue.

Overtime: Clinton was a leader in our fight to prevent the Department of Labor from undermining overtime protections for low-income workers, mostly women.

Work/Family Balance: Clinton supports early childhood education, universal availability of childcare for all, paid sick and family leave and policies that recognize the dual roles of workers who are parents and caregivers.

Social Security: Clinton opposes privatizing Social Security and recognizes that this social program is essential to economic security and livelihood of women and families.

Domestic Partner Benefits: Clinton supports the extension of job benefits, and indeed all of the federal benefits available to married couples, to committed same-sex partners, "nothing left out."

Immigration: Clinton supports allowing undocumented immigrants and guest workers a path to citizenship and participation in Social Security. She is promoting healthcare for immigrant children as part of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

Budget and Taxes: Clinton supports funding for human needs programs that are vital to struggling families and opposes billion dollar tax giveaways to the wealthy. She opposes making the Bush tax cuts permanent, and has proposed that they be rolled back.

http://www.nowpacs.org/2008/hillary/issues.html

These are some of the most important issues most women are concerned about. And only a woman can understand how important those issues are to women. And quite frankly I am sick of male president after male president promising equality for women and yet we still make less money and have even lost some of our most basic human rights. It is time to make a statement by putting a woman in the Whitehouse and letting the world know that America does respect and takes women and their needs(cause womens needs are humanity's needs!)seriously!

And think of what it says to our daughters!:) It tells them that women can hold power and that women's emotions and needs are not a weakness! We have been told for far too long that our emotions, needs and special abilities makes us the weaker sex. When in fact all those so called "weaknesses" are what society needs to function better. We can't keep lying to ourselves as women and telling ourselves that we are no different than men. We absolutely are! It is no scientific secrete that men and women even think differently. That is not saying one is smarter than the other, that has been scientifically proven not to be the case. We do have different biological functions and different emotional needs. And womens functions and needs have been abused and ignore for far too long now! That is why we need a woman in the Whitehouse and Hillary's track records proves she is just the woman for the job, in my opinion.

So, in short I guess you could say I am voting for Hillary because she is a woman and her track record proves she is for women.  Why shouldn't I? I don't think any of the other canidates are doing any more for women's rights and some not any less, but it is the statement that is important as well!

Peace

Amy