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Mairead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 08:48 AM
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165. You're focusing on the distractions, exactly as they intend you to do
Edited on Tue Oct-21-03 08:49 AM by Mairead
Watch the money instead. That's where the real action is.

No rights are worth anything without the money to instantiate them. It doesn't matter if a woman has the nominal right to Choice if she's so poor that she can't get the money together to travel to the nearest free clinic that hasn't had to close because of lack of support.

So a politician who works in a clinic has a nice photo-op and story for campaign time. But if he has also helped keep the concentration of wealth on-schedule, he's no friend to working women.

A choice is no choice if you can't make use of it. Today, money is key to having real choices. When politicians create laws that take money and stability from us, they undermine the reality of choice completely.
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