02 December 2016 02 Dec 2016

Respect for women's reproductive rights

‘Sometimes it's hard to be a woman,’ Tammy Wynette once sang, before going on to advise that one should forgive one's husband for being unfaithful because ‘he's just a man’ and thus, she seems to suggest, simply cannot help himself. Almost half a century after Ms Wynette lamented the tribulations of womanhood in ‘Stand By Your Man’, a new generation of American women have their own hardships to worry about.