I received this email from NARAL and think it is vital we all get involved.
President Bush's Federal Abortion Ban will become the law of the land in just a matter of weeks, and anti-choice activists are now one step closer to their goal of overturning Roe v. Wade. If there was ever a time to stand up and fight to protect women's personal, private decisions from political interference, it is now.
At NARAL Pro-Choice America, we've taken our fight to the next level and started an all-out campaign to support the Freedom of Choice Act. The Freedom of Choice Act would effectively repeal the Federal Abortion Ban by codifying Roe v. Wade into law, guaranteeing the right to choose for generations to come.
I suppose in Chuck's "up is down" world, no really does mean yes and women who are raped were just asking for it. Pathetic.
Chuck, the bodies of those 32 victims of Virgina Tech haven't even been buried and reichtwing nutjobs like you are already using the killing for their political agendas!
I hate to admit it. Women's courses in colleges try my patience. Attempts to feminize issues piss me off. I don't understand at a gut level, why women are afraid for their physical safety. As a kid I was the one who kicked ass. Everybody in the neighborhood was afraid of me. It took all my self control as a teenaged girl to not get into physical fights. Only one time did I ever feel uneasy with a man on a date, and I just firmly got out of his car, telling him I'd kill him if he ever came near me again. Only a few years ago I beat the shit out of a kid who attempted to mug me in the local WalMart parking lot early one morning. And of course, the cops wouldn't respond , Wal Mart didn't care, and it was only after I got home that I burst into tears. And only with bulldog do I allow myself to, as he calls it, "be little".
So you get the picture. I don't generally see with gender glasses. I am just a frakkin' furious American. So this whole Imus thing, the earlier thing with Pandagon and that little shit from the Catholic League, Big Bad Billy Donohue, and the most recent example of Kos, freshly a daddy of a baby girl, stepping in the shit over the Kathy Sierra death threats; well this stuff sorta made me blink, made me think. And when I'm really thinking about stuff, well, I go visit Digby for a shot of wisdom writ well.
One of the most frustrating things about the religious reicht when it comes to abortion is that it will on one hand insist that abortion is evil and should never be done - but then they will take away the tools to reduce unwanted pregnancies.
For example, the religious reicht will fight any real sexual education program that would inform teens how to avoid not only dangerous diseases but also unwanted pregnancies. You would think that since many of these unwanted pregnancies will be aborted, it would be in the reichtwing's self-interest to educate teens how to avoid getting pregnant in the first place.
Nah. They would plug their ears and teach abstinence only programs which have been proven failures. But you know what? Pretending teens aren't having sex does not actually mean they aren't having sex and it ain't going to stop teen pregnancies.
Real education and information will help teens not only avoid dangerous diseases and the physical problems caused by early pregancies, but it will also stop stupidity such as this: a mother and her nieces forced her daughter to drink turpentine to induce an abortion:
This is the kind of crap that happens when you don't educate your populace. The only way turpentine can abort a fetus is if it kills the girl! What are these people thinking? Oh, wait. They're not thinking because they were never given the education to think for themselves because of George Bush and the GOP's extreme agenda.
Abstinence-only programs are all about politics and it is incredibily irresponsible for George Bush, Rick Perry and the GOP to punish our children for their political power and myopic view of reality.
And it is dangerous. From diseases to uninformed decisions and medical choices, girls (and boys) need and have the right to understand their bodies.
