Blog 4, "Fact checking a Romney appeal toward women"

              Fact checking a Romney appeal toward women: 

            The Romney campaign recently submitted an ad “Dear daughter” featuring “a fictional mother telling her newborn girl about female unemployment and poverty numbers, as well as the infant’s share of ‘Obama’s debt’”. The ad does a good job of portraying that Obama’s term has been nothing but a struggle for women and that the next four years will be even worse if Obama is elected another term.The article examines how women have been doing throughout Obama’s term and the facts behind these past four years. One part of the ad has a statistic regarding poverty; a correct statistic that the rate of poverty for women has been higher than it’s been in 17 years. Yet the facts behind this census, for one the female poverty rate has been “rising since the sixth year of the Bush administration”. The poverty rate for women historically has been higher than of men, so this is nothing new to the Obama administration. As for the unemployment claim, 5.7 million working women were unemployed in August before President Obama’s term showing that “women were worse off than they were before Obama became president”.

            I appreciate articles such as this one that breaks down the truth of campaign advertisements, no matter political affiliation. Too often administrations are trying to reach a particular group of people, and more than often leaving out critical facts behind their statements. As a younger generation female, personally I have noticed positive changes with Obama in office and I know the negative outcomes that will occur if Romney takes office the following year. Romney would be getting rid of practically my second home, Planned Parenthood. I cannot stress the importance Planned Parenthood has in my life, throughout high school Planned Parenthood provided me with affordable birth control by being under 18 and affordable STD / STI / HPV testing. Obama continues to support the work Planned Parenthood does for women, men, children, and families across the nation. Crossing my fingers to keep Obama in office, as I know Romney would not benefit women’s rights in the least!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/fact-checking-a-romney-appeal-toward-women/2012/09/21/314936c6-03e7-11e2-91e7-2962c74e7738_blog.html 

Avonlea Bryant-Comstock 

Sep.21 

3:45pm