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The left is waging a war on women
Published 8:52 am Tuesday, May 16, 2023
BY SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN
Mother’s Day is an important time for us to come together with our loved ones and recognize the pivotal role mothers play in our families and our lives. In the Blackburn family, I celebrated my daughter and daughter-in-law, and I took time to remember my mother and grandmother, who had such a profound influence on my life. Spending the day celebrating and appreciating the mothers in our lives is a wonderful reminder of how important women are, not only in our families, but in our society as a whole. And it is more important now than ever that we preserve a culture for our children and grandchildren where women are respected and empowered, not pushed to the sidelines.
The unfortunate reality is that the Left is waging a full-scale campaign to undermine women and push them out of the public sphere. To appease the demands of the radical left, the Biden administration and Democrats across the country are attempting to redefine what it means to be a woman. The effects of this radical agenda are heartbreaking: women and girls are being pushed aside and replaced by biological males in sports, jobs, and even in the sacred role of mother. This is not the future any of us want for our daughters and granddaughters.
The Democratic Party has taken women for granted for years, believing they can displace biological women with men who masquerade as women and still rely on their vote. But biological women are not second-class citizens, and we cannot sit idly by and accept the Left’s attempt to push us aside. The Left is working overtime to undo the equality that women like Susan B. Anthony, Lide Smith Meriwether, and Anne Dallas Dudley fought for decades to achieve, and if we don’t speak up, they will use their power to silence and suppress us once and for all.
(Sen. Marsha Blackburn represents Tennessee in the U.S. Senate)