Posted on 09/02/2008 6:50:46 AM PDT by Gopher Broke
Dear xxxxxx,
Yesterday morning, on my way back from the high of the Democratic National Convention, I learned that Sen. John McCain chose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential pick.
What might have been encouraging news for women was just the opposite — somehow McCain had managed to find a woman running mate even more conservative than he is on women's rights.
It was heartbreaking news, especially on the heels of such an inspiring week. Right now there is so much shameless rhetoric from the Republicans about breaking the glass ceiling, especially from McCain and his running mate. What good does it do to break a glass ceiling with a woman who wants government to control women's reproductive health? That isn't the world I want for my two daughters.
A day later, and I'm still having trouble expressing the depth of my anger about McCain's choice of a running mate. This shameless pandering to women — with a woman who doesn't trust other women to make their own decisions about childbearing — has really got me going.
My dear friends and supporters, the stakes in this election just got unbelievably higher. More than ever before, the November 4 election is the most important vote for women's rights of my generation. And our actions in the next eight weeks — yours, mine, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund's — have never been more critical. Believe me, I don't say that lightly. It's time to get to work — and hard.
If you can only do one thing, it should be to tell every woman you meet that McCain and Palin are the most anti-choice, anti-women pair imaginable. Don't stop at just telling your friends. You can bet that I'll be telling strangers in the checkout line at the grocery store, the women I see at the gym, parents at my kids' schools.
Women trust other women to tell them the straight truth — and the straight truth is that McCain and Palin would take us back to a time when women had absolutely no right to decide whether or not to have a child ... zero. It's been widely reported that Palin is against abortion even in the cases of rape and incest!
And, yes, money helps us too — very much. That's how this all works. Your donations help the Planned Parenthood Action Fund reach voters person to person — conversations with one million women that tell the truth about John McCain and Sarah Palin. Bear with us over the next two months. We're going to be asking for your help, your contributions and your time a lot. Thank you in advance for doing what you can, when you can.
Times like these, it's hard not to hear my mother's voice in my head. I can tell you that my mother, the former governor of Texas and a remarkable feminist leader of her time, would have been downright outraged right now. What would have offended her most about McCain's decision to put Sarah Palin on the ticket is how utterly calculated, how awfully pandering it is to women. It is the worst kind of politics. Mom would have said, "Women voting for this ticket is just like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders."
We have the opportunity in Barack Obama and Joe Biden to elect a team that have always stood strong with us for women's health — end of story. I'm so excited coming back from Denver — but with this decision by John McCain, I recognize that everything for us is at stake.
Thank you, as always, for standing up with the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the women Planned Parenthood health centers serve. We are quite a force, aren't we?
Cecile Richards, President Planned Parenthood Action Fund
Baby Killers. Now there’s an endorsement for you.
Womens health? What about unborn baby’s health.
I read constantly about the emotional distress of women that have abortions. Disgusting bunch of baby haters.
“Women’s Health,” “A Woman’s Right To Chose,” etc.
They dare not call it what it truly is: Taking the life of a child in its mother’s womb. Murder. Homicide. Killing.
A child is not a euphemism, but a gift from God.
What if your mother had exercised her “right to choose” (which we all know means abortion) with respect to you?
Just a thought..........
What if your mother had exercised her “right to choose” (which we all know means abortion) with respect to you?
Just a thought..........
What does she care?
Cecile Richards wasn’t going to vote for J. Sidney anyway...
Reproductive “health”....Killing babies is healthy??
this is all they want...lots of it.
RATS have NEVER pandered to (liberal) women?
Isn't that what being pro-choice is?
No praise for women who don't abort? Can't elect a woman who doesn't abort?
How sexist and controlling is that?
These Dem party trolls are the worst hypocrites that ever walked the earth.
The government isn’t “controlling reproductive health”.
It ALWAYS, ALWAYS comes down to the person.
Abortion is hideous MURDER.
We don't favor ADULTS murdering other ADULTS. So is the government WRONG in discouraging MURDER of ADULTS?
Or is it better if an ADULT MURDERS a defenseless NEWBORN or one ABOUT TO BE BORN?
Oh the “shame” of someone NOT wanting OTHERS to MURDER THEIR OFFSPRING.
Liberals are SICK.
Conservative women *DO* like Palin. This is better.
They should be renamed Planned Abortion.
I know that leftists in general deny the existance of God, or at the very least, the authority of God’s Word,
but you have to seriously look at this from the
God vs Devil angle.
Which side are they on? Obvious.
In other words the “plan” in Planned parenthood must always be to murder your children. Death death death! They love. They embrace it. They want more and more of it.
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