{"id":55038,"date":"2014-10-23T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=55038"},"modified":"2014-10-24T00:43:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T04:43:38","slug":"catholic-vote-ad-tells-udall-that-women-are-more-than-just-our-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/catholic-vote-ad-tells-udall-that-women-are-more-than-just-our-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Vote ad tells Udall that women are more than just our bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicvote.org\/respectwomen\">new election\u00a0ad<\/a>, Catholic Vote features a woman &#8211; Rachel &#8211; who says it&#8217;s &#8220;dishonest and condescending&#8221; for politicians to act like there&#8217;s\u00a0a War on Women in America while basically ignoring the <em>real<\/em> war on women elsewhere around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Women in other nations are \u00a0being forced to convert to Islam, forced to marry, and forced to work as slaves. Rachel\u00a0doesn&#8217;t mention it, but women in China are also being forcibly sterilized after their nearly full-term babies are aborted. Women are being gang raped, murdered because they&#8217;re women, aborted because they&#8217;re girls, kidnapped and forced to become sex workers. And there&#8217;s still more.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all know when we&#8217;re being used,&#8221; Rachel\u00a0says, and it&#8217;s clear she&#8217;s\u00a0had enough. Specifically, Rachel talks about Mark Udall, the incumbent running for Senate in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vXdQ2SBx3rE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Udall has run an almost single-issue campaign about the bodies of women.\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em> aptly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2014\/10\/13\/mark-udall-has-been-dubbed-mark-uterus-on-the-campaign-trail-thats-a-problem\/\">describes it in a headline<\/a>: &#8220;Mark Udall has been dubbed &#8216;Mark Uterus&#8217; on the campaign trail. That&#8217;s a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A local news reporter in Colorado <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/election2014\/ci_26598933\/colorados-war-women-and-u-s-senate-race\">wrote<\/a> that, if the &#8220;race\u00a0were a movie, the set would be a gynecologist&#8217;s office, complete with an exam table and a set of stirrups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And so, Rachel\u00a0answers back:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What do women really care about? &#8230; Men that care about us, and not just our bodies. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m more than just a body. I&#8217;m more than a vote. I&#8217;m a woman.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ad closes with a hashtag that Catholic Vote wants\u00a0pro-abortion politicians and people alike to remember: #respectwomen.\u00a0<em>We are more than just our bodies<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new election\u00a0ad, Catholic Vote features a woman &#8211; Rachel &#8211; who says it&#8217;s &#8220;dishonest and condescending&#8221; for politicians to act like there&#8217;s\u00a0a War on Women in America while basically ignoring the real war on women elsewhere around the globe. 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