REDWAVE
Urban Jungle Dweller
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The top article on today's NYT tells the story in more detail: emboldened by their success in the last two elections and their hammerlock on all three major branches of government, the Republicans are launching a frontal assault upon women's right to choose. The key element in Bush's mass constituency is the rabid religious right. Those woman-hating bigots want to restore the "good old days" when women were firmly under the thumb of men, and couldn't even do what they wanted with their own bodies unless they had the permission of some man. The opening wedge is a ban on "partial birth" abortions, but their long term objective is outlawing abortion altogether. Do you want to go back to the days of illegal back alley abortions? If so, vote Republican!
Even "partial birth" abortions are sometimes necessary for the health of the mother. At any rate, it should be a woman's right to choose what to do with her own damn body. Only she should make the decision whether to have a partial birth procedure, not Washington legislators or Supreme Court Justices (both of whom are mostly men, I might add).
In opposition to the Republican religious right women-hating bigots, I say: Free abortion on demand! Hands off women's bodies!
(Unless they want hands on them, of course, in which case-- carry on . . .)
Even "partial birth" abortions are sometimes necessary for the health of the mother. At any rate, it should be a woman's right to choose what to do with her own damn body. Only she should make the decision whether to have a partial birth procedure, not Washington legislators or Supreme Court Justices (both of whom are mostly men, I might add).
In opposition to the Republican religious right women-hating bigots, I say: Free abortion on demand! Hands off women's bodies!
(Unless they want hands on them, of course, in which case-- carry on . . .)
