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Happy 35th Birthday Roe v. Wade [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard, AlterNet at 11:12 AM on January 22, 2008.


Young people across the nation talk about what Roe v. Wade means to them.
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This video made by Choice USA to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The Choice USA website says:

Since his first day in office over seven years ago, President Bush has actively set the stage to challenge and reverse Roe vs. Wade. He has placed radically anti-choice officials as heads of important health-based agencies, installed two anti-choice justices on the Supreme Court, reinstated the Global Gag Rule, proposed restrictions on contraceptive funding and access and increased the funding of abstinence only until marriage programs that have been proven ineffective, and dangerous for teens. In the 35 years since abortion was legalized in this country, the W. Bush regime has been the most hostile.
Yet despite a rough past, we are still standing and the future is hopeful. Today, we owe it to ourselves, and the generations of women and activists before us, to celebrate 35 years of women collectively fighting to uphold the legal right to abortion and for accessibility to quality healthcare in the name of self determination, autonomy, political and social equality.
Check out the video to your right for more.

h/t RH Reality Check

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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Reduce the need for abortions
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Posted by: peacelf on Jan 22, 2008 1:23 PM   
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I'm a male who has mixed feelings about abortions. On the one hand, I respect a woman's right to choose. Back alley abortions were an ugly feature of pre-Roe v Wade days, and we should never return to that time. Yet, I know the need for an abortion is a symptom of greater problems in our country and the world.

Let's not fool ourselves; potential life exists in a fetus and nobody should see the act of an abortion as cause for celebration. Nor, should we celebrate the economic, social and political factors that are at play making the seeming necessity of the choice for an abortion. Under the right conditions and with progressive changes in attitudes, economic policies, social stigmatization and mass political empowerment, abortions could be a rarer occurrence and less necessary.

Maybe, I'm naive. But, I'm sure some of the respondents to my comments will show me how and why I am.

peace

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» RE: educe the need for abortions Posted by: andrewstromotich
Abortion
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Posted by: RobNLA on Jan 22, 2008 9:03 PM   
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It's pretty sad that even today, politicians and the religious right are attempting to regulate women's reproductive rights by chipping away at Roe V. Wade.

They claim they are pro-life, but what about:
--the mother's life
--prenatal care
--health care for children

I don't see pro-lifers protesting to protect and improve such things.

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» RE: Abortion Posted by: Sissy
» RE: Abortion Posted by: Lauren
» RE: Abortion Posted by: Sissy
When I see an anti-choice bumper sticker
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Posted by: Ellie1 on Jan 23, 2008 6:21 AM   
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in my area, it is always an elderly person driving the vehicle. Like that person has to worry about abortion. Makes me laugh-or get angry. What a woman does with her body is nobody's business but hers, and it is especially not the business of the Neocons and the born agains. You don't agree with abortion, fine. don't have one. But I don't agree with your religion or your party, does it work both ways? Of course not. And don't tell me there are no lives involved in politics-what about their damned war?

Nice to see so many young women in your picture accompanying this article. There is hope for the future, when the dumb old farts I see will be gone.

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Jane Roe endorses Ron Paul for President...
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Posted by: poppop_schell on Jan 23, 2008 7:04 AM   
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IMO, Ron Paul has the most Constitutional answer to this difficult issue...leave it to the people of each state to decide what level of abortion is acceptable. Jane Roe, the former hero, of the radical abortionist, had a born again experience and now strongly fights against abortion on demand.

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The morons are coming; the morons are coming!
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Posted by: willymack on Jan 23, 2008 12:44 PM   
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And they'll never stop coming. They'll keep trying to chip away with every dirty trick, including murder and violence at abortion clinics, they can devise. In a perfect world, a man like Kucinich or Edwards is president, the Senate is solidly Democratic, and certain not-so-supreme court judges are encouraged to retire or face legal action for treason, election manipulation, and other crimes, and certain bush appointees are treated in like manner. Sex education begins anew, and the after morning pill is freely available without a prescription or interference from religious crazies. Unnecessary abortions will plumet for certain.

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And they lift the gag rule overseas
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Posted by: sunspot on Jan 24, 2008 6:59 AM   
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And they lift the gag rule overseas & return to offering comprehensive counselling and family planning services to our sisters in developing countries.

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nice vid
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Posted by: DaBear on Jan 24, 2008 9:31 AM   
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I was appalled by the local coverage by the "local" newspaper (has only print and delivery staff, a skeleton crew beause they wire in all their "reportage" from Chicago neocon HQ) on the "anniversary".... 100% right wing responses, not even a token of pro-choice response. Unbelievable. We are living in the friggin dark ages in 'Merkuh. Every single argument made by the 'con respondents were the litany of anti-sex, virginity coveting, misogynistic, revisionist history tripe typical of the 'Merikaan fascist movement. Not one of those respondents in my "local" paper have or could ever hear those young women on the vid. It's sickening. I fear for my daughter...

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