>It was Donald Trump who ripped away the rights of freedom of women in America, and it will be all of us who restore those rights for women in America.
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From the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration has used every tool in its arsenal to chip away at women’s health, employment, economic security, and rights overall. One of the administration’s most effective, and at times less noticed, tools to crafting this harmful agenda against women has been to use the standard agency rule-making process as a political weapon.1 Frequently ignoring relevant data and research, the Trump administration has used the rule-making process to issue guidance, interpret public policy, and implement statutes in ways that are fundamentally harmful to women, often pushing beyond the limits of its legal authority while consistently underestimating the financial costs and dismissing the human impact of its rules.2
The administration’s harmful regulatory agenda is part of a larger and unfortunately all-too-familiar agenda to strip women of their fundamental rights to control their own bodies and economic futures, while catering to social and religious conservatives and big-business interests. These efforts often have reflected a narrow worldview—rooted in racism and misogyny—that treats women, and specifically women of color, as objects to be controlled rather than full participants in a society that still has work to do to become more inclusive, fairer, and responsive to women’s needs. Women’s real-world experiences—as caregivers, as breadwinners, and as health care decision-makers—are dismissed as peripheral and thus are nowhere to be found in the administration’s policies. Indeed, these rules negatively affect every facet of women’s lives in the United States, including their ability to control their bodies, demand equal pay, and protect themselves against sexual violence. The rules are also consistent with President Trump’s own harmful and disrespectful rhetoric about women and women’s rights.3 Only by identifying and understanding these dangerous rules can we begin to dismantle and mitigate their harms.
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https://www.americanprogress.org/article/women-paid-price-trumps-regulatory-agenda/