{"id":1587,"date":"2014-01-24T15:54:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T15:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2014-01-24T15:54:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T15:54:35","slug":"men-who-trust-women-jan-22-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"Men Who Trust Women: Jan. 22, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by Joe Brenner, Director, MWTW:<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m proud to be here with you today for the commemoration and celebration of the 41<sup><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">st<\/span><\/sup> anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and women\u2019s rights to make personal health decisions, including access to safe and legal abortion.<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great to see everyone here, including the men.<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>We know that the majority of people, women AND men, in the United States support reproductive choice.<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The minority of mostly pale male extremists in Congress and in state legislatures across the country who oppose women and reproductive choice do not represent the majority of the American people.<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0 <\/span>We should show them the door.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for the many men in the nation to stand up for their beliefs and be visible and vocal to trust, respect, and support women and women\u2019s right to make decisions about their health, including access to contraception, and safe and legal abortion.<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0 <\/span>A new national network, called Men Who Trust Women, is aiming to do just that.<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Tell your friends, your partners, your families. Our website is \u201cmenwhotrustwomen.org.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While reproductive rights are women\u2019s rights, they are also human rights.<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0 <\/span>An injury to women is an injury to us all.<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So let\u2019s celebrate, commemorate, and strengthen the rights enshrined in the historic Roe v. Wade decision today.<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Thank you.<span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div data-tooltip=\"Show trimmed content\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by Joe Brenner, Director, MWTW: I\u2019m proud to be here with you today for the commemoration and celebration of the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and women\u2019s rights to make personal health decisions, including access to safe and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/?p=1587\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}