How America views itself (forget about reality)

"In its rejection of Western liberal values of sexual equality and choice, conservative Russia finds common cause with many in Africa and with the religious teachings of Islam, the Vatican, fundamentalist Protestants and Orthodox Jews."  Yes, sexual equality and choice and rampant in the US, where there are states in which woman can't even get an abortion, and where the US is one of only four states where mothers don't get paid maternity leave.