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Originally Posted by dc_dux
IMO, there is no excuse for this kind of rumor mongering....just as there is no excuse for the rumor mongering about Obama being a secret muslim or having a forged birth certificate, etc.
Both sides should say STOP!
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hey _dux! Palin is repulsive in her "mission" to set women's reproductive rights in the US back fifty years. I consider her a radical fringe political operative of a fascist ilk. I think she was appointed as chum in the water in the process of McCain's fishing for the votes of people who identify with Palin's 19th century POV..... they are either so ignorant in their misguided zealotry...or worse....they don't give a shit that the results of their influence falls hardest where it always does....on the least of us....the ones who the courts were intended to protect from the majority and those with outsized power and influence..... 87 percent of US counties have no abortion services...and these monsters never let up for a minute on the poor, rural, resource impaired, while the wealthy are never deterred or even affected.
Fuck the McCain campaign.... I have as much compassion for them as they plan for the least of us in our country.
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washingtonpost.com
...Serrin M. Foster, president of Feminists for Life, a nonpartisan group to which Palin has belonged since 2006, said the governor's sudden political ascent demonstrates how women are making gains, regardless of their ideology. "The early feminists worked for the rights of women to vote and our right to life," Foster said yesterday. "This is one more step in a long march for women's history." ...
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At the top of the "non-partisan" Feminists for Life - Women Deserve Better is:
FFL Member Nominated for Vice President of the United States - Feminists for Life of America
FFL Member Sarah Palin Nominated for Vice President of the United States
From page 16 of the newsletter:
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http://www.feministsforlife.org/taf/...inter97-98.pdf
“birth control counselling and abortion often indirectly contribute to the victim’s sense of shame, guilt, and blame for what is happening, since she is told to “take control” and “be responsible” for her “sexual activity,” implying that this situation is indeed within her power to control.”
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Feminists for (Fetal) Life
Feminists for (Fetal) Life
subject to debate
By Katha Pollitt
August 11, 2005
....I got similarly evasive answers when I asked why FFL didn't promote birth control, and when I asked if FFL considered the pill an "abortifacient." She did tell me that "birth control doesn't work" for swing-shift nurses because they lose track of their body clock--interesting, if true--or for teenagers, which I know to be false. "We just want to focus on meeting the everyday needs of women," she told me. But when I asked how the everyday needs of women with unwanted pregnancies would be served by encouraging them to bear children and place them for adoption, Foster didn't answer. Instead, she extolled the benefits of open adoption. ....
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What ‘Feminists For Life’ Hide
“The new pro-choice/pro-life battle is over the right of Americans to use birth control and Feminists for Life has clearly taken its side. By not supporting contraception, Feminists for Life backs an agenda that has failed everywhere it is been tried.”
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Feminists for Life of America
Leaving abortion aside for just a moment, even most forms of contraception invade the woman's body, not the man's--and in more cases than we want to admit, scar and irrevocably damage those bodies. (Even condoms, the one "male" form of contraception, usually end up being the woman's responsibility--survey after survey shows that it is invariably women, not men, who are responsible for purchasing condoms.)
Feminists for Life of America - Pro Woman Pro Life
FFL is concerned that certain forms of contraception have had adverse health effects on women.
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Article | The American Prospect
When Feminists for Life has chosen to address the issue of contraception, it has invariably been to point out the health hazards posed in particular forms of birth control.
The battle to ban birth control | Salon Life
there is evidence to suggest that even the mainstream anti-choice groups are ready to make the battle against contraception part of their agendas. Many of the National Right to Life Committee state affiliates have opposed legislation that would provide insurance coverage for contraception. Iowa Right to Life even lists a host of birth control methods -- including the pill, the IUD, Norplant and Depo-Provera -- as abortifacients. [Editorian note: "Feminists for life" use the same term, "abortifacients" --cishart]
You Don't Know Feminists for Life | Columbia Spectator
.... What Serrin Foster will not be advertising during her campus visit is that Feminists for Life is opposed to contraception. On this point, her organization and the rest of the pro-life movement is unified: most pro-life groups in the United States are anti-contraception.
Today, pro-life groups are reclassifying the most common contraception methods, including the birth control pill, the patch, the intrauterine device, and Depo Provera, as "abortifacients," claiming, with no scientific backing, that they cause abortions. On its Web site, Feminists for Life lists emergency contraception as an abortion method. If this were true, Feminists for Life must also consider 40 percent of all birth control methods as abortion methods too because they have the same mode of action as emergency contraception....
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Ideology Should Not Play a Role in Reproductive Rights | Reproductive Justice and Gender | AlterNet
Ideology Should Not Play a Role in Reproductive Rights
By Cynthia L. Cooper, Women's eNews. Posted August 13, 2008.
A political shift to the right has imperiled reproductive rights in many states.
...Abstinence Class in 27 States
Georgia is among 27 states that continue to use abstinence-only programs, for which the federal government allocated $176 million in fiscal 2008, despite a congressionally mandated scientific review that found them ineffective in delaying sex. Georgia does permit its more than 180 school boards to choose "abstinence-plus" education, which may describe contraception......
...Publicly funded family planning clinics in Georgia provide contraceptive care to 200,000 women, including 56,000 teens, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization in New York. But that helps less than half of the 490,000 women who need the services, Guttmacher estimates.
In its most recent analysis, the Guttmacher Institute found that 92 percent of Georgia counties had no abortion provider in 2005, compared to none in 87 percent of all counties in the United States. Nearby Mississippi has only one abortion clinic.
In 1999 Georgia adopted one of the earliest and best laws on equitable insurance coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices. Twenty-six other states now have similar contraceptive equity laws.
D-Grades for Reproductive Rights
But as of January 2008, the Washington-based abortion rights lobby NARAL Pro-Choice America marked Georgia with "D" on its state report card. The nation as a whole earned a D-minus.
"What's really changed in the past 10 years is the political landscape," said Nancy Boothe, executive director of the Atlanta Feminist Women's Health Center.
Since 2000 the state's political leadership has shifted to the right. The governor, lieutenant governor and speaker of the house are all Republicans endorsed by Georgia Right to Life. Majorities in both houses of the state legislature are anti-choice, as are both Republican U.S. senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson......
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