Hillary, Family Planning and Foriegn Policy

Hillary Clinton was recently awarded the Margaret Sanger award.

Here's a particularly amazing section of her award speech:

"Too many women are denied even the opportunity to know about how to plan and space their families, and the derivative inequities that result from all of that are evident in the fact that women and girls are still the majority of the world's poor, unschooled, unhealthy, and underfed. This is and has been for many years a matter of personal and professional importance to me, and I want to assure you that reproductive rights and the umbrella issue of women's rights and empowerment will be a key to the foreign policy of this administration."

Remember how elated I was when Hillary Clinton was selected as Secretary of State. This is why. From repealing the global gag rule, to offering asylum to women in foriegn countries who have suffered domestic abuse- it's a beautiful thing to watch the Obama administration decide to move on the issue of women's rights so early on.