Posted on 07/02/2005 11:00:57 AM PDT by NRA2BFree
The president of the National Organization for Women declared a "state of emergency" for women's rights and planned a march on the state Capitol as news of Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement reverberated through the group's annual convention.
NOW president Kim Gandy told about 800 NOW members Friday that women need to send a message that they won't tolerate "extremist" judges who set back women's rights.
"This is our time. This is our challenge," Gandy said as the crowd replied by clapping and chanting, "Hell no, we won't go" and "We won't go back."
The group shifted the agenda for their three-day convention to include a march to the Tennessee Capitol on Saturday to "make sure Senator Frist and all senators are going to hear our voices. We're going to march on every Capitol in this country," Gandy said.
The first woman on the Supreme Court, O'Connor was often the swing vote on 5-4 decisions supporting abortion, affirmative action and other contentious social issues. Her retirement leaves Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the only woman on the court. Gandy and former NOW president Eleanor Smeal, now president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, praised O'Connor as a moderate.
"Twenty-four years ago, as president of the National Organization for Women, I testified for Sandra Day O'Connor before the Senate Judiciary Committee," Smeal said. "I knew then that O'Connor, although a conservative voice, would be one who would not permit the elimination of women's fundamental rights, including the right to privacy."
Gandy said the group fears "a nominee along the lines of some of the extremist judges that have been put on the appellate court by George Bush."
NOW members are set to elect their president Saturday night. Gandy, elected in 2001, is being challenged by Rosemary J. Dempsey, a Connecticut lawyer who's held several national and state leadership roles since joining NOW in 1970.
Dempsey wants to focus on attracting younger members and opposing President Bush's economic agenda, which she says inflicts disproportionate harm on women. "We were effective in the 70s, and we're effective now," Dempsey said. "But there has been a backlash. Most young women don't know about NOW these days. If NOW is visible and relevant where they (young members) live, that's what makes NOW powerful."
Um-m-m-m, hotties! Why are they worried about abortion? You have to get pregnant to need an abortion and the last time I checked that little project required a m-a-n! Not much to worry about in that department IMHO
Unionism is dying
Except in our schools, where the liberal unionist-socialist-communists are indoctrinating our children, soon from age 3.....
an antidote..two words. School Voucher
What is NOW and the FemNags? A group of Man Hating Lesbians Flat Earth Thinkers. Let's see you encourage your members to not marry, not have children, hate Men and appeal to 2% of the populace. What a enlightened group of Darwin Award Candidates. LOL they are removing themselves from the Gene Pool. They are an evolutionary dead end. They are too stupid to see it. They keep dredging up the past. Each decade they get more narrow in their thinking and more irrelevant. Get a clue most Women don't want what you are selling. And ugly they hit every branch on the ugly tree falling down. Uck.
With O'Connor the USSC was 6-3 pro abortion. If President Bush gets a pro-life justice on the court (Good Luck with our RINO senators), it will be 5-4 pro abortion. Not quite a red alert, but still a good fund raiser for NOW.
"Hell no, we won't go" and "We won't go back."
Sounds like NOW is in a timewarp back to the 60s using this Vietnam anti-war activists chant. NOW lacks credibility because the org was strangely quiet during the sexual predator who called himself prez was being impeached.
...and remember: "NOW, Was created to allow, Very Ugly (Physically/Mentally/Emotional) Women a clear path into the 'Mainstream' of Human Society." - alib by me from Rush Limbaugh Show. :D
MOO? :)
Oh, dear.
xactly!
FReepers...don't forget that NOW awarded the "woman of the year" award to the psycho woman who drowned her 5 kids in a pool a few years ago (I think it was in TX?).
SHE is a "great" role model to all family hating FemiNazis.
"Get a clue most Women don't want what you are selling. "
I've read articles in popular women's magazines that tell them how to lie to men about cheating, encouraging promiscuity, divorce is "in", positive spins on abortion, etc. They dont say "don't get married" or "don't have children" directly...but women are propagandized with subtle messages which sometimes is a means to the those ends.
These are all ways to undermine the family unit and/or destroy one before it begins.
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