Picture of previous DC pro-choice march
Posted on 06/11/2003 8:43:01 AM PDT by bedolido
WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Several pro-abortion groups announced on Tuesday that they are planning a march on Washington, DC on April 25, 2004. The Feminist Majority, the National Organization for Women (NOW), NARAL and Planned Parenthood are combining their efforts for this gathering inauspiciously entitled "Save Women's Lives: March for Freedom of Choice."
Talon News reported yesterday that pro-abortion advertising will begin airing nationwide this weekend in an attempt to generate support for the cause.
"Roe v. Wade hangs by a thread and rumored anti-abortion replacements on the Supreme Court could serve for the next 40 years," concluded Kim Gandy, president of NOW.
Gandy expressed her fear about the supposed ramifications of overturning the controversial 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion in America on her young daughter.
"In other words, the reversal of Roe would last for generations, and the entire reproductive life of my 10-year-old daughter hinges on what we do in the coming year. NOW will be mobilizing women and men across this country to march on Washington for our mothers, for our daughters, and for ourselves there will never be a more important time to stand up for women's lives," Gandy said.
Eleanor Smeal, the president of the Feminist Majority, continued the pro-abortion rhetoric regarding next year's rally. "The time is now. We must sound the alarm that women's fundamental rights are in danger," she exclaimed. "The overwhelming majority of Americans will not go back to the days of back alley abortions."
Not to be outdone, NARAL President Kate Michelman pointed the finger directly at President Bush and Republicans in Congress, admonishing them for trying to take abortion rights away from them.
"We have a simple message for anti-choice leaders who control the White House and Congress -- don't tread on us, don't tread on our right to choose and don't tread on our right to privacy," she reprimanded. "Americans will not stand by silently as our rights are trampled. Pro-choice Americans are on the move ready to take to the streets to protect the health, lives and rights of American women."
Finally, the President of Planned Parenthood Foundation of America Gloria Feldt says that women should make the decisions regarding their own body, not the government and that Americans will rally in support of abortion.
"We refuse to be the generation that both won and lost the rights to birth control and abortion. We stand for the principle that women -- in consultation with their families and their physicians -- should make their own reproductive and health decisions. Not politicians and not the government. The Bush administration, the U.S. Congress, and the nation need to see hundreds of thousands of Americans showing their vocal support for reproductive freedom," Feldt remarked.
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What about the "unborn woman's" life?
Ever notice it's called Freedom of Choice, yet it isn't associated with life?
It's freedom to choose murder.
It should be called Pro-Death
At this point I suppose it would be useless to point out that babies (fetuses) are being murdered, and almost half of all anticipated births are female. And to hold a march, demanding the right to kill the helpless ....is something else.
The press pro-abortion bias was remarkable in terms of the questions asked. One man asked since the country is 70% pro-abortion, why do Republicans control Congress and the White House and "What can WE do about it?"
Eleanor Smeal was quick to add that George Bush got a minority of the popular vote (as did Al Gore, but that is beside the point!).
And Kim Gandy's impassioned plea that her daughter not lose the "right to choose" was bizarre -- actually pleading that your grandchildren be murdered in the womb. (My father's girlfriend is a big lib, and my father told me that his girlfriend's daughter has had 3 abortions. It is a good thing she has not raised the issue of "choice" with me, or I would ask, "Wouldn't you rather now have three grandchildren alive than that your daughter is childless and you have no grandchildren?")
But some people have no comprehension that their "feel-good" nostrums have any real-life consequences. And the "freedom to choose" results in empty lives as well as empty wombs.
They'll get good numbers. The freaks love to come out for a protest. They did in the 1980s when I attended as a counter-potestor.
I hope they can set up the little cemetary in front of the capital again. That annoyed the pro-aborts to no end.
They may. That was a bit of a different time though. You watch. Most of them are going to be middle-aged, burned-out feminists. A large percentage of the pro-life marchers are young people.
I'll probably be still around DC in April 2004, so I'm probably going to head down there to counterprotest myself.
It was actually kinda fun to just yell at the Kool Aid drinkers. On the other hand, keep an eye open for the more reasonable useful idiots. A level headed conversation with them can actually give them something to think about.
While I'm sure that you will get a lot of burnt out feminists, just remember that the left cross-protests. You'll get gays, anti-war people, anarchits, etc., too.
They most cetainly are. :-}
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