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  •  There's a saying out here (4.00 / 4)

    "Don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining." Yet that's what it sounds like so many of you all are trying to do.

    If the Democratic Party bails out on something as fundamental as gender equality, then it's not a party I'm going to back.

    If the Democratic Party continues pandering to people who would make women into breeder slaves of the state, then it's not a party I'm going to back.

    I think all this carping on NARAL by so many here reveals to me that the Democratic Party is not a party that endorses the progressive values I hold dear.

    You guys can all go on with your pissing matches, winning at any cost, selling out whatever you want. But don't be expecting me to be tagging along. You go to the dark side, you're dead to me. I don't need to be chasing around a kinder and gentler Sith Lord.

    And don't be expecting silence from me. Or NARAL. Or other women and men who despair at the idea of making A Handmaid's Tale into a fucking political platform.

    Frankly, all this "I'm pro-choice, but--" baloney smacks of the same shite we hear about race. "Some of my best friends are black." Uh huh.

    This is not trivial. This is not marginal. This is at the very core of human rights.

    It's not the government's business to decide.

    You either believe that, or you don't. You either back up what you say with deeds, or you just more political baloney. "Hurting the party?" Let me tell you who's hurting the party: Every single person who suggests  yet one more moral compromise all in the name of victory at any cost.

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    by media girl on Wed Aug 10, 2005 at 01:16:48 AM PDT

    •  Here, here... (none / 0)

      Right on MediaGirl.

      How about this one for a change.

      I'm pro-choice AND have had an abortion.  I later in life went on to choose my own reproductive planning and have had two beautiful daughters that would not have happened had I not had a choice a decade ago.

      Like me, many of your sisters, aunts, mothers and women friends have had to stare down the throat of this particular monster, and are shamed into silence as if by calling it a 'pet cause' it makes it a smaller less important issue.

      It's been with the recent onslaught of attacks on reproductive rights that I finally had to stop and say, enough is enough.  I no longer can be silent and pretend like this happens to 'some woman', and not admit that I am that woman.  That my best friend was that woman.  That my aunt was that woman.  That my babysitter was that woman.  That my sister-in-law was that woman.  That my mother-in-law was that woman.

      Democrats need to stop being afraid of this issue and allowing conservatives to call the shots on defining it on their terms.

      "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - MLK, Jr.

      by FemiMama on Fri Aug 12, 2005 at 08:19:25 PM PDT

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