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Tamyrlin79 Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 12:59 PM
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Time for Pro-Choice Leaders' Heads to Roll?
Edited on Wed Apr-18-07 01:02 PM by Tamyrlin79
In response to Matt Stollers post commenting on our so-called “leadership” organizations on the abortion issue:

Some people think that this ruling will be a rallying cry for the pro-choice groups to organize around. I don't think so. You're either a fighter or you're not. The people that lead these groups aren't fighters.


It may be time to start a sustained campaign for the heads of these organizations. I know we’ve criticized some of them before for this or that, but this is now in a whole new ballgame. It is time to either 1) get credible statements by their leadership (preferably including an endorsement of said statement by their board of directors) that demonstrates that they’ve learned their lesson and who will fricking FIGHT for women’s rights, or call for the installation of new leadership who will.

This decision is as much a testament to their effectiveness as leaders forwarding this issue as anything. This decision is a clarion call that says that if things don’t change, then we can only expect further erosion of our rights. It is not wrong for us to now express our loss of confidence in the leadership here and DEMAND change in these organizations at the highest levels.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:22 PM
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1. It is hard to get enough people to rally around this issue. The method
of abortion is rarely used, and only affects rare situations, and no one wants to believe they'll be in that situation. Consider that women over child-bearing years and most men might not be interested, and there goes a huge percentage of activists. I wish this wasn't the case. Like the saying goes, if men had babies, abortion would be available safely at the 7-11. If women naturally bore children into their 70's, there would be more activism, I think.
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 01:28 PM
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2. If men had babies, abortion would be a religious sacrament.
Why 7 men on the high court think they can trump the advice of medical doctors is beyond me.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 03:38 PM
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3. I like that saying as well, but had decided to leave
religion out of this post of mine! LOL. But trumping the opinion of doctors, especially when it comes to really critical health issues for the mother, seems to me to be a good reason to sue SCOTUS for practicing medicine without a license if they are going to dictate the practice of doctors. OB/GYNS have alot more formal education/training than the lawyers, IIRC.
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