WOMEN’S ISSUES: How Biden demonstrates CLEAR SUPERIORITY over Trump
In this consequential 2024 presidential race, who is taking action on important issues facing women, President Biden or Donald Trump?
The two major party’s presumptive nominees each had to come up with $100 million recently, and they spent it in two very revealing ways.
While Joe Biden invested $100 million into an unprecedented push to improve women’s health through medical science research, Donald Trump posted a nearly $100 million bond to appeal his second rape judgment owed to advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
As Biden himself once said, it’s a “big f’ing deal!”
Does it truly matter who is president?
Yes!
The Biden White House recently announced that a $100 million commitment to women’s health research will fund the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). It’s a relatively obscure agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
It’s also the first-ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research.
“Women’s health research has always been underfunded, and as a result, we know far too little about our own health,” said First Lady Jill Biden in the official announcement. “But with the new White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, we will fundamentally change how our nation approaches and funds women’s health research. We will close the gaps, we will accelerate new ideas, and change women’s lives.”
Most of us care about social justice issues like discrimination — few of us consider them important in our lives, and even fewer speak out or take positive action. “It takes a village” should be more than a catchy slogan — it should be a path Americans travel routinely to save lives.
“Save lives,” you ask? How does inclusivity save lives?
When most people think of discrimination, they think of ethnic minorities and inequality in education, housing (rental or ownership), job opportunities, or interactions with the police. Historically, all of these occur in our land of equal opportunity.
But back to the core question: How does inclusivity save lives?
Let’s take a look at gender, an inequality that most white men rarely think about. When considering the differences between men and women, we think of education, unequal access to jobs or careers, or income inequality for the same or similar work.
Despite the Equal Pay Act of 1963, there are quantifiable differences between the types of jobs and rates of pay available to men and women.
While these differences are important, they pale in comparison to inequality in health care and venture capital investment in health care issues, especially for women.
You know, women like your mom, without whom you wouldn’t exist.
There is a significant difference between the importance the medical and investment communities place on men’s health conditions and women’s health conditions, and this variation is literally killing women.
Yet, since Donald Trump became prominent in American politics, many white people, mostly men, claim they are the ones who are the real victims of discrimination.
“Blacks get first crack at the jobs,” claims one white man I interviewed. “If you need assistance from the government, it helps to be a minority,” says another. It is a familiar refrain. Post-2016, many white men claim discrimination against them, but very few have experienced it.
People from all racial and ethnic groups, including white men, believe that their particular group is discriminated against in one form or another.
But that’s not what’s happening in our healthcare system whatsoever. In fact, men’s needs are prioritized to the highest degree.
According to McKinsey & Company, only 3 in 10 men with erectile dysfunction and 2 in 10 with an enlarged prostate are undiagnosed in America.
At the same time, 8 in 10 women with menopause and 6 in 10 with endometriosis are undiagnosed.
In addition, women are far less likely to receive a coronary angiogram than men or the correct initial diagnosis following a heart attack.
Despite this data, healthcare investors spend far more dollars solving men’s healthcare issues than they do solving similar women’s issues.
Donald Trump brags about grabbing women by the p-word, defends his adultery with (and hush money pay-offs to) porn stars, appoints judges that limit women’s access to reproductive care, and is found guilty of rape and fraud.
In stark contrast, Joe Biden’s presidential administration invests in saving women’s lives, but because he’s not tripping over a sandbag while announcing the initiative, it goes totally unreported.
While Republican judges are busy restricting access to life-creating IVF procedures, our First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden, announces POTUS’s financial commitment to life.
Remind me, please — which is the ‘pro-life’ party?
This election year, does it matter who is president of the United States?
If you’re a woman, it’s a matter of life or death.
Editor’s note: This is an opinion column that solely reflects the opinions of the author.
