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when we wake up and speak out, the other side is always like "holy fuck Gee, willikers, where did ALL THESE PEOPLE come from???"

I was furious.

This sounds like one RIGHTEOUS article!!!

I've always said, making it a choice issue is a big mistake. We should be emphasizing that safe abortion is a matter of LIFE or DEATH for women.

1.2 Million People on the mall, and the Cable Newz™ spent the whole fucking day talking about Estee Lauder's death and chasing after elusive and drunk Nascar Bush voters.

My impression was this sort of pissy attitude from on high about "how dare these little people think they can decide what the news is today. We'll tell you what's important to you, not the other way around."

But despite pretending to ignore it, you can damn well bet people -important people- noticed that march.

below the fold?

A "personal interest" story about a young evangelical couple, and how hard it is to be evangelical christian in this country that oppresses christians so heartlessly.



Fuh real.



Seriesally.

Democrat and Chronicle isn't some tiny backwater rag, either. It's the Rochester area paper. I wrote a LTE but D and C (how darkly ironic, that name) ignored me. Quel surprise.




so you traveled 3000 miles to be there?!! There's gotta be a great story there! That is OUTSTANDING!!!!! And I'm jealous.

Not much of a story, except we're all pretty serious about protecting Roe v. Wade. The march was just.... mind-blowingly huge. And given that this was smack right in the middle of the era of post 9-11 Bush, it was very inspiring to see all that political voice.

Great way to do it!

Like I said--- I'm jealous!!!!!!!!!

They hate it when we get riled up.

Not female, just get it. Komen screwed up badly.

Thanks, tishaLA, for posting this!

For the first time in what feels like forever, passion and fury were being loudly, proudly given in a full-throated voice, on behalf of women – women as moral actors; women as citizens with rights, health, bodies, freedoms; women as people with families and economic concerns.

It was a long article and so good, that I didn't want it to end!



YES!!!!! Finally finally FINALLY, mass support, respect that cannot be hidden beneath layers of partisan media or lurid fascination with women's sex-parts for the purpose of titillation/marketing or simpering concern for our "natural role" as mothers *coff choke*. REAL support for women as REAL people, with lives, individuality, diversity, and a massive admission that conservative ideology is out to HARM US.

Thanks to such massive action on the part of so many people, and to the power of the intertubes, this movement CANNOT be subjected to the censorship effect that relegates most "ladies' concerns" to women's magazines, amid the ads for mascara and yogurt that helps you crap .

Making abortion illegal does not mean there will be no abortions. This bland, unexamined assumption is passed over again and again in anti-choice discussions. For those of "a certain age", who remember pre - Roe vs Wade. .What it means is lonely, terrifying, septic deaths of desperate young women who attempt to self-abort. It means back alley butchers, charging huge fees in filthy places. It means suicide for those poor girls who can see no way out of their despair..

I hope everyone who finds themselves locked in a contentious discussion with some forced-birther will remember.

Thank you.