Dear Friends of Reproductive Freedom,
George W Bush and his right-wings friends are quietly pursuing their domestic agenda while the nations attention is focused on international terrorism.
Bush's attacks on women's reproductive freedom continue.
Examples;
1. On his first day in the Oval Office,Bush re-instated the global gag rule,which takes family planning funds from organizations that even mention the option of abortion to their patients,risking womens lives overseas.
2. Bush has promised to re-visit the Food and Drug Administration's approval of RU-486.And anti-abortion forces in Congress have already introduced a bill to limit it's availability.
3. With the expected retirement of 3 Supreme Court Justices ,including Sandra Day O'Connor,who is often the critical swing vote on abortion rights issue,Bush has made it clear that he will nominate the most adamant opponents of abortion and civil rights.
The Bush administration is committed to strategies that limit life saving stem cell research,criminalize abortion providers,reduce the availability of birth control and deny funding of health reproduction education in the schools.
What better way to take on the Christian Coalition and ultra-right leaders and movements,than to use your voice to speak up now!!
The violent attacks on clinics,volunteers and health-care workers continues.Every month clinics are subject to firebombs .have been the recipients of anthrax scares,etc.An average of 12 violent attacks have occurred each month since 1992-yet most people are unaware of this terrorism because it receives so little media attention.
Ashcroft and other officials are questioning a program developed by the CDC that help parents talk to their children about sex.Why? because it includes info in contraception and disease prevention. Bush and his appointees have refused every state request to use their own medicaid funding to expand family planning services to poor women.
Those chipping away at Roe have attacked and limited the rights of young women,the poor,zeroed in on women in the military(and the wives and daughters of men in the military) women employed by federal govt,native American women on tribal lands,women in prison,rural women,women overseas,women with catastrophic preganancies,disabled women on medicare.......will your rights be blocked next????
For more on this please visit- http://www.now.org/nnt/spring-2002/roeanniversary.html
Thanks for your attention. Stand up!! use your voice-Activism is NOT dead! Tina who will be out there!
Todays Affirmation:
The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign that the conspiracy is working.