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Vogon_Glory

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3. You May Also Wish To Consider That...
Sat Jan 14, 2012, 10:37 AM
Jan 2012

You and other activists interested in reproductive rights may also wish to check and see just how many of the same faces and organizations involved in the anti-abortion movement are ALSO involved in the stealthy and increasingly-successful campaign to suppress womens' access to birth control. You'll find an awful lot of the same jokers showing up again and again.

And don't let yourself get sidetracked just looking at the Catholic Church. Rather a LOT of Evangelical Protestant and Dominionist outfits are also participating in the sneak attack on contraception.

In addition, it might also be worth pointing out that a lot of these womens' clinics provide many poorer women with health services they couldn't get or afford elsewhere. If the Radical Right succeeds in shutting these clinics down, they'll have nowhere to go.

Also, the same politicians who vote to gut Planned Parenthood not only offer up utterly inadequate "alternatives" to PP and other clinics offering womens' health services, but they constantly vote to cut funding for the rural clinics that would have been getting the influx of new patients.

I don't know if framing a political campaign in terms of "our wives, our sisters', our children's health versus your (right-wing) political career" would be successful, but I can hope.

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