My Son - born at 27 weeks
Posted on 01/22/2004 9:09:30 PM PST by LiteKeeper
Today, Thursday, January 22, marks the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that recognized a woman's right to decide the most private aspects of her life. But instead of celebrating another year of a woman's right to choose, we are working to ensure that 2004 is not the year that the rights of privacy and choice are extinguished.
Energized by President Bush, an organized anti-choice movement is successfully taking our choices away. In December President Bush signed the first-ever federal criminal ban on abortion procedures, and he continues to pack our nation's federal courts with anti-choice activist judges who have compared abortion to slavery, called Roe v. Wade abominable, and said that a wife should be subordinate to her husband. State governments are also intruding further than they have in years into women's private lives and decisions: in 2003 alone state legislatures considered 558 anti-choice measures, a 35.1% increase from 2002. NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation's annual State-by-State Report on the Status of Women's Reproductive Rights reports that these anti-choice gains reduced our nation's grade on women's access to abortion to a dismal D.
Despite these challenges, everyone here at NARAL Pro-Choice America is optimistic because we know that the future of personal privacy and a woman's right to choose relies on the vigilance and commitment of our supporters - you.
For this year's Roe v. Wade anniversary, find out how your state rates on our annual comprehensive report released today. Then visit our website to find out what else you can do to make sure this isn't the last year for Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose.
Warmly, [Signed by Kate Michelman with a GIF graphic]
Colorado scored a D+ on their system...that is great!
Keep up the good work, FREEPERS!
I'm so glad that NARAL is out there fighting for our privacy (against the income tax and gun bans) and a woman's right to choose which school her children will attend.
98 percent of Kentucky counties have no abortion provider
Did you know that a Kentucky Ob/Gyn who refuses to prescribe emergency contraception was made a key advisor to the Bush administration on reproductive health drugs?
W. David Hager, whose rumored appointment to the Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration generated much controversy in the fall of 2002, was indeed appointed to that committee on December 24, 2002.
I wonder if pro-life activists made posters of pictures like this one, rather than the pictures of abortion victims that they usually do, I wonder if they would get a lot more traction. To the Modest Proposal crowd at NARAL and the pitchfork-sharpeners at Planned Parenthood, pictures like that must drive a wooden stake deep in where there hearts would be, if they had any.
To them he's just "a blob of protoplasm," or "a collection of cells." May his long and healthy life confound those evil people at every turn. God bless you!
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18 F
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