Posted on 02/27/2008 4:35:28 PM PST by wagglebee
Barack Obama: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, well, Ariana, thanks for stealing the show. [Laughter] Thats how, thats how we teach young people at Trinity United Church of Christ. Theyre not shy. Its so wonderful to see and thank you for the wonderful introduction and the great work that you are doing. Youre representing the church and the city of Chicago very, very well. All rightgive her a round of applause [Applause].
I heard, Ariana, I heard your folks are here, where are theyOh, I see, the one with the camera [Laughter] video taping everything. All right, I should have figured that out. Well, you should be proud, shes extraordinary.
Thanks to all of you at Planned Parenthood for all the work that you are doing for women all across the country and for families all across the countryand for men, who have enough sense to realize you are helping them, all across the country. I want to thank Cecile Richards for her extraordinary leadership. Im happy to see so many good friends here today, including Steve Trombley and Pam Sutherland from my home state of Illinois. We had a number of battles down in Springfield for many many years and it is wonderful to see that they are here today.
You know its been a little over five months since I announced my candidacy for President of the United States of America and everywhere weve been, weve been inspired by these enormous crowds. We had twenty thousand people in Atlanta, twenty thousand people in Austin, Texas, fifteen thousand people in Oakland, California and I would love to take all the credit for these crowds myself, to say to myself that its just because Im just so fabulous, but [Laughter] my wife says otherwise. Michele, I think, confirms that these crowds are not about me. Its about the hunger all across America for something different. Its about the sense that we can do betterthat weve come to a crossroads, that were not pointed in the right direction.
And as I look out over these crowdsand they are a wonderful cross-section of the country, male, female, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, disabled, gay, straight, old, youngwhat Im heartened to see is particularly the young people who are getting their first chance to be part of a larger movement of Americans. I see young women who are Arianas age and younger, and I think about my own two daughters, Sasha and Malia, and sometimes it makes me stop and makes me wonder: what kind of America will our daughters grow up in?
What kind of America will our daughters grow up in?
Will our daughters grow up with the same opportunities as our sons? Will our daughters have the same rights, the same dreams, the same freedoms to pursue their own version of happiness? I wonder because theres a lot at stake in this country today. And theres a lot at stake in this election, especially for our daughters. To appreciate that all you have to do is review the recent decisions handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States. For the first time in Gonzales versus Carhart, the Supreme Court heldupheld a federal ban on abortions with criminal penalties for doctors. For the first time, the Courts endorsed an abortion restriction without an exception for womens health. The decision presumed that the health of women is best protected by the Courtnot by doctors and not by the woman herself. That presumption is wrong.
Some people argue that the federal ban on abortion was just an isolated effort aimed at one medical procedurethat its not part of a concerted effort to roll back the hard-won rights of American women. That presumption is also wrong.
Within hours of the decision, an Alabama lawmaker introduced a measure to ban all abortions. With one more vacancy on the Court, we could be looking at a majority hostile to a womans fundamental right to choose for the first time since Roe versus Wade and that is what is at stake in this election. The only thing more disturbing than the decision was the rationale of the majority. Without any hard evidence, Justice Kennedy proclaimed, It is self-evident that a woman would regret her choice. He cited medical uncertainty about the need to protect the health of pregnant women. Even though the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists found no such uncertainty. Justice Kennedy knows many things, my understanding is he does not know how to be a doctor.
[Laughter and Applause]
He dismissed as mere preferences the reasoned judgments of the nations doctors. Weve seen time after time these last few years when the president says otherwise, when the science is inconvenient, when the facts dont match up with the ideology, they are cast aside. Well, its time for us to change that. It is time for a different attitude in the White House. It is time for a different attitude in the Supreme Court. It is time to turn the page and write a new chapter in American history.
[Applause]
We know that five men dont know better than women and their doctors whats best for a womans health. We know that its about whether or not women have equal rights under the law. We know that a womans right to make a decision about how many children she wants to have and whenwithout government interferenceis one of the most fundamental freedoms we have in this country. We also know that there was another voice that came from the bencha voice clear in reasoning and passionate in dissent. The voice rejected what she called, quote Ancient notions of womens place in the family and under the Constitution. Ideas that have long been discredited. Unquote. One commentator called the decision in Gonzales, An attack on Ruth Bader Ginsburgs entire lifes work. And it was. But we heard Justice Ginsburg and we know what she was saying. She was saying, Weve been there before and we are not going back. [Applause] We refuse to go back. [Applause]
We know, we know its not just one decision. Its the blow dealt to equal pay in the Ledbetter [v. Goodyear] case, its the blow dealt to integration in the school desegregation case, its an approach to the law that favors the powerful over the powerlessthat holds up a flawed ideology over the rights of the individual. We dont see America in these decisionsthats not who we are as a people. Were a country founded on the principle of equality and freedom. Were the country thats fought generation after generation to extend that equality to the many not restrict it to the few. Weve been there before and were not going back.
I have worked on these issues for decades now. I put Roe at the center of my lesson plan on reproductive freedom when I taught Constitutional Law. Not simply as a case about privacy but as part of the broader struggle for womens equality. Steve and Pam will tell you that we fought together in the Illinois State Senate against restrictive choice legislationlaws just like the federal abortion laws, the federal abortion bans that are cropping up. Ive stood up for the freedom of choice in the United States Senate and I stand by my votes against the confirmation of Judge Roberts and Samuel Alito [Applause]
So, you know where I stand. But this more is than just about standing our ground. It must be about more than protecting the gains of the past. Were at a crossroads right now in Americaand we have to move this country forward. This election is not just about playing defense, its also about playing offense. Its not just about defending what is, its about creating what might be in this country. And thats what weve got to work together on.
There will always be people, many of goodwill, who do not share my view on the issue of choice. On this fundamental issue, I will not yield and Planned Parenthood will not yield. But that doesnt mean that we cant find common ground. Because we know that whats at stake is more than whether or not a woman can choose an abortion.
Choice is about how we lead our lives. Its about our families and about our communities. Its about our daughters and whether theyre going to have the same opportunities as our sons. There are those who want us to believe otherwise. They want us to believe that theres nothing that unites us as Americanstheres only what divides us. Theyll seek out the narrowest and most divisive ground. That is the strategyto always argue small instead of looking at the big picture. They will stand in the way of any attempt to find common ground.
At a time when a real war is being fought abroad they would have us fight cultural wars here at home. But I am absolutely convinced that culture wars are so nineties; their days are growing dark, it is time to turn the page. We want a new day here in America. Were tired about arguing about the same ole stuff. [Applause] And I am convinced we can win that argument. If the argument is narrow, then oftentimes we lose. But if you ask everybodyyou ask the most conservative persondo they want their daughters to have the same chances as men?, most will answer in the affirmative. The vast majority will answer in the affirmative.
We can win that argument. We can turn this page.
It is time to turn the page on policies that fail to deal with tragedy of ten thousand American teenagers getting an STD everyday. Of fifty-five contracting HIV and another twenty-four hundred becoming pregnant. Its time to turn the page on a stance that refuses compassionate support of victims of rape and sexual assault. Not even to the brave servicewomen fighting for our country who arent getting the support they need when they come home as veterans of the United States of America. [Applause] If theyre fighting for us, they should be getting the services that they deserve. Its time to turn the page on a policies that provides almost 1.5 billion dollar to teach abstinence in our schools but refuses to teach basic science and basic contraception.
Pam, weve been through these fights in Illinois, were going to be in these fights here in Washington. Theres nothing wrong with science. Its actually made our lives better. [Applause] Lets teach science to our kids. We need, we need to make choices about what happens before pregnancy. Its a false argument to say that the only way to prevent disease and unintended pregnancy is abstinence education. Just as it is a false argument to say that the only way is through contraception. As Martin Luther King used to say, Its not either/or its both/and.
Theres a moral component to prevention. And we shouldnt be shy about acknowledging it. As parents, as family members, we need to encourage young people to show reverence toward sexuality and intimacy. We need to teach that not just to the young girls, we need to teach it to those young boys. [Applause] But [Applause] But even as we are teaching those lessons, we should never be willing to consign a teenage girl to a lifetime of struggle because of a lack of access to birth control or a lifetime of illness because she doesnt understand how to protect herself. Thats just commonsense. Theres common ground on behalf of commonsensethere we have an opportunity to move forward and agree.
People of all faithsfrom members of Arianas and my church, Trinity United Church of Christ to United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, understand that we cannot ignore that abstinence and fidelity may too often be the ideal but often not the reality.
We need more programs in our communities like the National Black Church Initiative which empowers our young people by teaching them about reproductive health, sex education and teen pregnancy within the context of the African-American faith tradition.
We need more leadership at the federal level. Thats why Im an original co-sponsor of the Prevention First Act. [Applause] To guarantee equity in contraceptive coverage, provide comprehensive sex education in our schools and offer rape victims factually accurate information about emergency contraception.
We need to tackle the tragedy of unintended teen pregnancy. When seven hundred and fifty thousand teens become pregnant every year, and half of Latina and black teens will become mothers before reaching their twenties, its not just a public health problem. If we reduce teen pregnancy, we can also reduce poverty.
Now the good news is that there has been a decline in the teen birth rate,in part due to the outstanding work of Planned Parenthood. But we all know that we can do more. Thats why Ive been working on this in Congress. Today, I introduced the Communities of Color Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act to increase funding for programs to combat this problem in communities all across this country working with grassroots organizations [Applause] to increase education. We need, we need to ensure that pharmaceutical companies can offer discounted drugs to safety net providers like Planned Parenthood [Applause] and university clinics so that access, so that access to affordable contraception is not just a privilege for the few but an option for all women. Its amazing how many women tell me the stories of how important it was for Planned Parenthood to provide them services when they were in college and they did not have the health insurance or the access to a regular doctor that they needed. To be able to have somebody they could trust to deal with so many of their basic and essential health issues.
And we cant stop there because we know that there is more at stake. The struggle for equality is also a struggle for opportunity. Youve worked in the communities. Youve seen women and families trying to keep pace. Youve seen our daughters hit the glass ceilings and come to closed doors.
The social contract in this country was made for a time when most women stayed at home with the kids. But even though this time is long passed, we still have social policies designed around the old model. The, as Justice Ginsberg said, Ancient notions of womens place in the family, and so women still receive less in pay, less in health benefits, less in pensions, less in social security. When women go on maternity leave, America is the only country in the industrialized world to let them go unpaid.
If youre a single mom, like my mom was, and you cant afford health insurance for yourself and youre trying to figure out whether your kids are going to be covered or not, the message from this current administration is: tough luck, thats the breaks.
The truth is, too often our daughters dont have the same opportunities as our sons. But thats not who we are. Thats not the America we want for our children and I am absolutely convinced that we can make this change. We can update the social contract so that caring for a newborn baby isnt a three month break, its a paid leaveso that all of our children have basic health care. [Applause]
We should be ashamed that the President of the United States is fighting providing health insurance coverage to all children because hes worried thats socialized medicine. He would rather fight an ideological battle than make certain that children who have preventable illnesses, like asthma, are getting regular checkups instead of going to the emergency room, which is costing all of us more money.
We can update the social contract so that our kids can go to school earlier and stay longer; so that a mom can stay home with a sick child without getting a pink slip; we can go to work, she can go to workknowing that there is affordable quality child care for her children; so that more families can stay together and prosper and our daughters have no limits to the shape of their dreams.
We can make these changes but first we gotta get rid of the cant-do-wont-do-wont-even-try style of government that weve had in Washington over the last several years. An administration that says, We dont have the money to do it. But weve got ten billion dollars a month to fight a war in Iraq that should have never been authorized [applause] and should have never been waged. We can find the money to make sure our daughters have the same rights as our son.
We can make this change.
We can make this change but first we have to get rid of the politics thats obsessed with whos up and whos down. A politics that is power for powers sake. A politics of cynicism and fearfear, above all, of the future.
This kind of change is about more than any one judicial appointment or lawas important as they may beit also about leadership.
Its about not settling for what America is but working for what America might be.
You know, Im here as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America because I had a grandmother who never got more than a high school education. But she worked on a bomber assembly lineshe was Rosie the Riveterand then went to work after she and my grandfather had married, and her daughter had been born, she went to work as a secretary. And worked her way up to become vice-president of a bank, the same bank where she started as a secretary, and ended up being the financial rock for our entire family.
Im here because of a mother, who for most of her life was a single mom, and yet was able to put herself through school and get a Ph.D. and end up specializing in womens development and starting micro-enterprises for women in Africa and Asia and all around the world. And still somehow added, had the time and capacity to fill up her children with love and affection.
Im here because of my wife, who as many of you know, is smarter, and tougher and better-looking than I am [laughter]. And many people ask why she shouldnt be the Obama running for President and I explain that shes too smart to want to run for president. Shed rather tell the president what to do. [laughter]
But most of all Im here as a candidate because there are these two little girls that I try to tuck in every nightits harder during the campaign seasonwhose futures depend upon us creating a more equal society.
I want my daughters to grow up in an America where they have the exact same opportunities as Americas sons. I want Sasha and Melia to dream without limit. To achieve without constraint. To be absolutely free to seek their own happiness.
At this crossroad, we need to talk about what America might bean America of equality and opportunity for our daughters. We need to talk about what Justice Ginsberg called, A womans ability to realize her potential. Because when we argue big, we win.
I am convinced of that.
I am convinced that Republicans and Democrats and Independents, Blue-state voters and Red-state voters, they want a fair shake for their daughters.
In 1966, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America gave its first Margaret Sanger Award to Martin Luther King, Jr. And in his acceptance speech, which was delivered by his strong and wonderful wife Coretta, Dr. King wrote, Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by non-violent, direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her.
That struggle for equality is not over and now we are at one of those rare moments where we can actually transform our politics in a fundamental way. But its going to take people as resolute as Mrs. Sanger and Dr. Kingpeople like your own Cecile Richardsits going to take young people like Ariana. Its going to take millions of voices coming together to insist that its not enough just to stand still. That its not enough to safeguard the gains of the pastthat it is time to be resolute and time to march forward.
I am absolutely convinced that we stand on the brink of that kind of achievement. And if we succeed in raising the awareness all across America that what is good for our daughters is also good for our sons. That when we expand opportunity for some, we expand opportunity for the many.
When we have achieved as one voice a strong call for that kind of more fair and more just America, then I am absolutely convinced that were not just going to win an election but more importantly were going to transform this nation.
Thank you [applause] very much, appreciate you guys, thank you.
Thank you.
[applause continues]
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you, Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you guys, youre very gracious, thank you.
Thank you very much, alright I think we have a couple of questions.
Cecile Richards: We do have a couple of questions, thank you Senator Obama. Thanks for being here with Planned Parenthood today. We have three folks from the audience that are going to ask questions and I think were starting with Brian Howard who is our CEO from the great state of Arizona. Brian?
Brian Howard: Senator Obama, thank you for being here today.
Senator Obama: Thank you, Brian.
Brian Howard: Um, you know that rights and access and rights and ability have to go hand in hand. Um, and we know that health care reform is an important part of your agenda. Could you talkand give us some specifics about how reproductive health care and womens health care is going to fit into and be a part of primary care for women in your health care reform plans and how Planned Parenthood, as a safety net provider, will continue to be a part of the health care safety net for women and families across the country.
Senator Obama: Well, look, in my mind reproductive care is essential care, basic care so it is at the center, the heart of the plan that I propose. For those of you that are interested in the details, not plugging my website, [laughter] feel free to go to BarackObama.com.
But, essentially, what we are doing is to say that were going to set up a public plan that all persons and all women can access if they dont have health insurance. Itll be a plan that will provide all essential services, including reproductive services, as well as mental health services and disease management services. [scattered applause]
Because part of our interest is to make sure that we put more an more money into preventative care. And so many of womens diseases are preventable if theyre getting access to regular care. So we subsidize women who dont have health insurance or cant afford health insurance at affordable low group rates. We also subsidize those who prefer to stay in the private insurance market except that insurers are going to have to abide by the same rules in terms of providing comprehensive care, including reproductive care and mental health, mental care services and they wont be able to keep people out as a consequence of pre-existing conditions. So thats going to be absolutely vital. [Applause]
Now, I know Im limited on time but I just want to expand on that second part of your question which is role that organizations like Planned Parenthood play. Obviously, my hope under a universal health care system is that everybodys got access to basic care and we have less of a patchwork quilt of services. ThatI still believe that it is important for organizations like Planned Parenthood to be part of that system. Because, many young women, for example, may be much more comfortable when they are in college or universities or other places, going to Planned Parenthood clinics and services to get contraception, for example. So, my hope is that we still have non-profit participation under my plan.
But, in the meantime, what Ive said is that I believe we can have universal health care in this country by the end of the next presidents first term. By the end of my first term as president [applause] of the United States of America. But thats five years away and in the interim there are just some basic things we can do. The notion that since the Deficit Reduction Act that we have seen Congress essentially make it much more difficult by drastically increasing prices for women to have access to the basic services they need, make absolutely no sense. And thats the something we can change right here and right now in Congress. And thats something Im going to be fighting, fighting to make sure happens. [Applause.]
Cecile Richards: Sir, we have a lot of political organizers here today so the next question is going to come from Dessa Cosma (spelling?) from Michigan. One of our political organizers from the great state of Michigan.
Dessa Cosma: Thank you for being such as inspiration as a community organizer, by the way.
Barack Obama: Thank you.
Dessa Cosma: Ive really learned a lot from you. I want to ask you right now about
[Barack Obama opens his mouth to say something] Supreme Court nominations?
Barack Obama: I thought you were going to ask me about how community organizers could get paid a decent wage. [Laughter]
Dessa Cosma: They take care of me. [Laughter] They do that.
Barack Obama: No, I remember, I remember folks asking me when I was organizing, saying, You know, if youre so smart, how come I always see you in the same clothes everyday? How come you got that beat up ol car? I said, well, anyway, Im sorry. [laughter] Im sure, Im sure benefits have improved.
Dessa Cosma: They do great. They do great with Planned Parenthood.
Barack Obama: Yeah. Okay.
Dessa Cosma: Um, as you were talking about earlier, the recent Bush Supreme Courts decision really took away critically important decisions from women and put them in the hands of politicians. And as a result of this, were expecting, and have already seen, so much anti-choice legislation at the state level. Um, what would you do at the federal level not only to ensure access to abortion but to make sure that the judicial nominees that you will inevitably be able to pick are true to the core tenets of Roe v. Wade?
Barack Obama: Well, the first thing Id do as president is, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. [Applause.] Thats the first thing that Id do. Um, but the, okay, but, but your question about the federal courts is absolutely on target. I taught Constitutional Law for ten years and I have to say after reading this latest decision and the series of decisions that the Supreme Court has been putting forward that I find it baffling.
Because sometimes they are striking down acts of Congress like the Violence Against Womens Act showing very little deference to Congressional decision making and that somehow when it comes to a piece of legislation that is not taking into account clear doctrine that the Supreme Court has laid out, they say, Oh, thats fine. Congress can make those decisions. There is an inconsistency and I believe a hypocrisy in terms of how we see many of these decisions issued.
Thats why I think its important for us obviously to get not only a Democratic White House as well as a stronger Congress to protect these rights. But I also think its important to understand that theres nothing wrong in voting against nominees who dont appear to share a broader vision of what the Constitution is about.
I think the Constitution can be interpreted in so many ways. And one way is a cramped and narrow way in which the Constitution and the courts essentially become the rubber stamps of the powerful in society. And then theres another vision of the court [sic] that says that the courts are the refuge of the powerless. Because oftentimes they can lose in the democratic back and forth. They may be locked out and prevented from fully participating in the democratic process. Thats one of the reasons I opposed Alito, you know, as well as Justice Roberts. When Roberts came up and everybody was saying, You know, hes very smart and hes seems a very decent man and he loves his wife. [Laughter] You know, hes good to his dog. [laughter] Hes so well qualified.
I said, well look, thats absolutely true and in most Supreme Court decis--, in the overwhelming number of Supreme Court decisions, thats enough. Good intellect, you read the statute, you look at the case law and most of the time, the laws pretty clear. Ninety-five percent of the time. Justice Ginsberg, Justice Thomas, Justice Scalia theyre all gonna agree on the outcome.
But its those five percent of the cases that really count. And in those five percent of the cases, what youve got to look at iswhat is in the justices heart. Whats their broader vision of what America should be. Justice Roberts said he saw himself just as an umpire but the issues that come before the Court are not sport, theyre life and death. And we need somebody whos got the heartthe empathyto recognize what its like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what its like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or oldand thats the criteria by which Ill be selecting my judges. Alright?
[Applause.]
Cecile Richards: Okay, so now for the last one is the teens. We talked a lot about teens and withbasically the loss of sex education in this country. Planned Parenthood PEER educators have become like the Underground Railroad of Sex Education [laughter]. Theyre the front lines giving kids information they cant get anywhere else. So the question is from Melissa Carrera from Anacostia who is a PEER educator [garbled].
Melissa Carrera: Buenas tardes. My name is Melissa Carrera and Im seventeen and Ive been a PEER educator with Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington for two years. Um, getting real sex education for my generation is not only about preventing teen pregnancy but also reducing the rates and sexually transmitted infections and HIV AIDS. With the AIDS rate in Washington being ten times the national average, what would you do to make sure that schools and programs like mine to treat, are encouraged to teach, sorry, medically accurate, age appropriate and responsible sex education.
Barack Obama: Well, first of all, I want to congratulate you for your participation and your leadership. Um, and we [applause], you, young people like you are making an enormous difference all across the country.
Step number one, I am an original co-sponsor of the Prevention First Act which will provide money for comprehensive and medically accurate, age-appropriate sex education in the schools.
Now keep in mind that weve been in this fight, Pam and I, back in Illinois when I was the chairman of the Health Care Committee, helped to push through legislation. And I remember Alan Keyes, I ran against Alan Keyes [laughter] I dont know if you guys remember Alan Keyes. But I remember him using this in a, his campaign against me saying, [mimicking Alan Keyes] Barack Obama supports teaching sex education to kindergartners. [Laughter] And, which I didnt know what to tell him.
But its the right thing to do, you know, to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in the schools. You, as a peer, can have enormous power over your age cohort but you got to have some support from the schools. You certainly should have to be fighting every instance by providing accurate information outside the classroom because inside the classroom the only thing that can be talked about is abstinence. Yeah, that is sending a mixed message [applause].
Eh, eh, and yeah, keep in mind, look, I honor and respect teenagers who choose to delay sexual activity. Ive got two daughters and I want them to understand that sex is not something casual and thats something I think we want to communicate and should be part of any curriculum. But we also know that when the statistics tell us that nearly half of 15 to 19 year olds are engaging in sexual activity that for us to leave them in ignorance is potentially consigning them to illness, pregnancy, poverty and in some cases death and thats absolutely unacceptable.
So, some of this is legislative but some of this also having a president whos willing to talk about these issues in an honest and reasonable way. [Applause] And, um, you know, the longer Im in this race for the presidency the more I realize that so much of leadership is about using the bully pulpit to frame the issues in a way that allows us to draw on the best impulses of the American people.
And the one thing that I want to insist on is that, as I travel around the country, the American people are a decent people and they get confused sometimes. They listen to the wrong talk-radio shows [laughter], watch the wrong T.V. networks [laughter], but, but theyre basically decent, theyre basically sound, theyre making decisions trying to figure out whats best for our children. And that is something that I think spans parties and we just have to make sure that the, the, bitter ideological debates that are taking place here in Washington are not mistaken for how the American people think. In fact, they are fed up with it, they are tired of it and they want to give young people like you, who are showing leadership and wisdom and are trying to sort yourselves, sort you ways through a sometimes difficult and confusing world, they want to give you the best possible chance and thats what I want to encourage as President of the United States.
[Applause]
Thank you very much everybody.
[Applause]
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Sounds a little different that way huh? Now why would that be hussein? Because you encourage irresponsible sex and the murdering of your children?
Probably nobody out of fear of being immediately euthanized.
Only if they are allowed to take their first breath, hussein....
>> and for men, who have enough sense to realize you are helping them
Which means that most men do not accept the violence.
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The Culture Wars are over, the culture of death has won, Obama is the Grim Reaper. His way of reaching agreement will be to eliminate dissenting views of those who listen to the “wrong” radio stations or post on the “wrong” forums. If he wants science-based sex ed, teach that promiscuity and homosex expose one to a host of diseases, some incurable or even fatal. That is pure science. Yet this man is greeted by cheering throngs wherever he goes. GOD HELP US.
I’m still making my way around here and trying to figure out this reply thing, so please bear with me. This reply is not directed to anyone on this thread.
I am amazed at how many men will go to any length to keep us women down as 2nd class citizens. Our women are also dillusioned about the issue. We don’t understand that the more we murder our babies, the longer we remain as 2nd class citizens.
What a horrible, horrible thing to be led to the slaughter by the President of the United States. This certainly doesn’t look good on him or anyone else who supports genocide.
If abortion in black people is on the decline, then the only role that Planned Parenthood may have had in that is that the lies they are telling are not being bought into by our upcoming generation.
I just read in a recent L.A. Times article that our teens are the future anti-abortion warriors, who are set on an abortion fighting course, and will probably be the generation to abolish abortion. What a refreshment to see that in the L.A. Times, as I’ve been seeing it in my own personal life, in the teen girls that surround me.
I hope that I live long enough to see the day of its abolishment.
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