Ms. WuDunn stays stateside to underscore the points made by her husband's trips to some of the most oppressive countries in terms of basic women's rights.
After hundreds of years of suffering and campaigning, the basic women's rights denied us may at least now be available to our daughters.
"Nonabortion services, whether family planning or basic women's health, will remain readily available" from entities other than Planned Parenthood, Mr. Daniels said.
As Emily Bazelon at Slate so eloquently put it: "… it seemed weighty and intimidating when I was a teenager, and in college, I somehow took seminars called 'Women in the Bible' and 'Witches and Saints' rather than a basic women's history or women's studies class".
Meanwhile, over in Egypt – just £546 for seven nights from Gatwick, all-inclusive, see travel agents for details – the Muslim Brotherhood, whose close allies control the country's parliament, have issued a 10-point memorandum railing against plans for basic women's rights.
Two important cases — one in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, the other in the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati — show how intense these battles have become and how important it is for basic women's rights to prevail.
