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NARAL Pro-Choice America Announces Endorsement of Kerry; Plan for Aggressive Campaign Effort
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Posted on 03/30/2004 11:36:24 AM PST by chance33_98

NARAL Pro-Choice America Announces Endorsement of Kerry; Plan for Aggressive Campaign Effort Includes TV Ads, Online Campaign

3/30/2004 1:47:00 PM

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To: National Desk, Political Reporter

Contact: David Seldin of NARAL Pro-Choice America, 202-973-3032, Web: http://www.ProChoiceAmerica.org

WASHINGTON, March 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- NARAL Pro-Choice America, the leading national advocate for personal privacy and a woman's right to choose, today announced its endorsement of John Kerry for President of the United States and unveiled its aggressive plan to protect the future of choice by defeating George W. Bush.

The pro-choice group will work to activate pro-choice voters in key states through an aggressive mix of television advertising, grassroots organizing and online advocacy. Efforts will feature such Bush Administration actions as its attempt to seize the private medical records of women who've had abortions, the President's signing of the first federal abortion ban in history, and his appointment of radical anti-choice judges to lifetime seats on federal courts -- as well as the potential for two or more Supreme Court vacancies in the next four years. Because of its MCFL legal status, NARAL Pro-Choice America possesses the ability to conduct express advocacy campaigns up to Election Day in a way that most other organizations cannot.

NARAL Pro-Choice America's President, Kate Michelman, said: "The choice for pro-choice voters is clear - and the stakes could not be higher. If George Bush is re-elected, the future of reproductive freedom is in the hands of someone who has violated women's privacy, criminalized women's medical choices and pledged to do everything in his power to restrict safe and legal abortion."

Michelman added: "John Kerry will be a President pro-choice Americans can rely on. He understands that our private lives are private, and will make sure that Roe vs. Wade remains the law of the land. Throughout his public life, Senator Kerry has been a leader on women's issues such as protecting the right to choose and preventing domestic violence."

The organization - which has a targeted list of more than four million pro-choice voters across the country -- will focus its efforts on 14 battleground states: California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin.

The all-out effort will include:

-- A significant broadcast advertising campaign, taking advantage of the organization's significant status as an MCFL organization, which allows it to call directly for Kerry's election within the last 60 days of the campaign;

-- Focused grassroots activism, working with the network of NARAL Pro-Choice America affiliates, and the Choice Action Network of more than one half million volunteers - combining phone banks, canvassing, direct mail, and email organizing; and

-- An unprecedented online advocacy campaign, based at a special state-of-the-art campaign Web site, http://www.BushvChoice.com.

To support this campaign, NARAL Pro-Choice America has launched its Choice 2004 Fund campaign, led by Governors Bill Richardson (N.M.), Ed Rendell (Pa.), Tom Vilsack (Iowa), Jim Doyle (Wisc.), Rod Blagojevich (Ill.), Gary Locke (Wash.) and Ted Kulongoski (Ore.).

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Paid for by NARAL Pro-Choice America Inc. Web site: http://www.ProChoiceAmerica.org. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; abortion; billrichardson; blagojevich; edrendell; endorsements; garylocke; jimdoyle; kerry; kulongoski; naral; proaborts; vilsack

1 posted on 03/30/2004 11:36:25 AM PST by chance33_98
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To: chance33_98
Paid for by NARAL Pro-Choice America Inc.

Paid for by Satan and the people he has fooled.

2 posted on 03/30/2004 11:39:48 AM PST by jtminton (<><)
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To: chance33_98
When I saw the headline I thought they were talking about NAMBLA. I suppose NAMBLA will be announcing their endorsement of Kerry next.
3 posted on 03/30/2004 11:43:59 AM PST by kennedy
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To: jtminton
Of the people around that I have known that support "abortion rights" I would guess that most of them have had one.

My theory is that, having killed a child out of the "necessity" of not "ruining your life" by having a baby, once you reach maturity, you realize just what was done - you've killed another human.

Now, there are only a few ways to handle this realization. One, you could recognize your failing, ask God for forgiveness, and work to live an honorable life. Or, two, you can stand firm, deny that it is wrong, deny God (I have examples), and, like an alcoholic that tries to make everyone else drink, promote "abortion rights" for everyone else.
4 posted on 03/30/2004 11:45:58 AM PST by MrB
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To: chance33_98
Dog bites man
Bear poops in woods
Pope is Catholic
Sierra Club, NAACP, UAW, NEA to endorse Kerry
5 posted on 03/30/2004 11:47:13 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (EEE)
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To: chance33_98
BABY KILLERS endorse KERRY! Right up there with Terrorist!!! Yahooo...!! Sure sucks to be you Kerry.
6 posted on 03/30/2004 11:48:39 AM PST by Integrityrocks
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To: chance33_98
I'm shocked, shocked the baby killers would endorse Kerry.
7 posted on 03/30/2004 11:48:44 AM PST by Skooz (My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
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To: chance33_98
Pro-choice = No choice for life, only death
8 posted on 03/30/2004 11:52:20 AM PST by ServesURight (FReecerely Yours,)
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To: chance33_98

Kerry said, quoting James 2:14. "When we look at what is happening in America today, where are the works of compassion?"

John Kerry: Working to kill babies.
9 posted on 03/30/2004 12:12:28 PM PST by anonymous_user (Only fools trust the partisan media.)
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To: anonymous_user
This is the second picture I've seen today alone with John Francois Fonda Kerry pontificating from the podium with his finger jabbing in the audiences face. The most striking things is in both of these pictures the audience behind him all look like they are serving a community sentence from a criminal case.

OK defendend please rise, the court hereby orders you to pay a steep price for your crime against our community. While we believe prison time is certainly warranted we feel that is not punishment enough for the harm you have caused so the court hereby remands you to attend a John Francois Fonda Kerry rally, and to sit through the entire speech.

Furthermore, if it was within the power of court we would impose a sentence of two to three speeches. Unfortunately due to maximum sentencing laws and the constitutional constraint against cruel and unusual punishment we cannot.

10 posted on 03/30/2004 12:35:32 PM PST by marlon
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To: chance33_98
Kiddie Killers for Kerry.
11 posted on 03/30/2004 12:37:46 PM PST by tractorman
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To: marlon
Do a Yahoo! News search for "kerry church" and there's so many pictures of him behind the pulpit, you'd think he was Father O'Kerry.

Two days later, he's annointed savior of the baby butchers...
12 posted on 03/30/2004 12:50:58 PM PST by anonymous_user (Only fools trust the partisan media.)
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