"Healthcare is a right!"
How many times have Democrats beat that drum? Far too many to count. When they're shilling for abortion or "gender-affirming care" for children, they'll also throw in their second-favorite line: "Medical decisions should be between a woman and her doctor."
But if you listen very closely, that sound you're hearing is the deafening silence of the Democratic Party about the plight of women in Afghanistan, thanks in large part to Joe Biden. Why? The Taliban has decided that women, who cannot go to school, also cannot work as doctors. They've also prohibited women from seeing male doctors.
That means, effectively, women in Afghanistan have no healthcare.
"By blocking women from becoming doctors and banning them from seeing male doctors, the Taliban are basically telling Afghan women to suffer and die without healthcare."@jk_rowling pic.twitter.com/JvlzL8CwQm
— WDI.Afghanistan (@WDIAfghanistan1) January 30, 2026
They also can't leave their homes, can't speak in public, can't work in any job. They are, for all intents and purposes, the property of the Taliban. They have no equal rights under the law, because they have no rights, period. They aren't even considered human beings. The Left hasn't missed a chance to cosplay about The Handmaid's Tale, while the women of Afghanistan are living in a hellish version of Gilead, thanks to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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Isn't Islam grand?
For the better part of three years, we were treated to campus protests and members of the Squad screaming about a genocide in Israel. I'll note that in Israel, women are allowed to be doctors and women are allowed to go to doctors. There won't be any campus demonstrations. Rashida Tlaib won't hold up a sign at the State of the Union address.
No one will ask Kamala or Joe about the plight of these women, either. Kamala won't care, and Joe won't remember that Afghanistan is even a country. But make no mistake: the current conditions being endured by the women and girls of Afghanistan are on them, which is ironic, given how those two loved to tout their pro-woman bona fides.
Shortly before Biden left office, he (well, whatever intern drew the short straw that day) tried to add the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution via X post.
"I have supported the Equal Rights Amendment for more than 50 years and have long been clear that no one should be discriminated against based on their sex," his post read. "We must affirm and protect women's full equality once and for all."
Kamala said something similar, adding, "I have spent my career fighting for freedoms and to expand opportunities for women and girls. It has always been clear that when we lift up women, we lift up children, families, communities, and all of society."
That equality, those rights and freedoms, apparently don't apply to the women and girls of Afghanistan.
If healthcare is truly a human right (it's not), and if women are deserving of dignity and equality (they are), then the women and girls of Afghanistan are living under one of the most brutal, human rights-violating regimes on earth. And the people who claim to care the most are nowhere to be found. The Democrats' feminism, as well as their definition of women's rights and their moral courage, ends at America's borders, it seems. The women and girls of Afghanistan weren't forgotten by accident. They were abandoned by choice.
And that's a shame.
