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babylonsister

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Roe v. Wade: 35 Years

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ACLU Online Video Examines Roe v. Wade's Importance for Civil Liberties, 35 Years Later

NEW YORK - January 22 - On today's 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark abortion rights decision, the American Civil Liberties Union announced the release of an online video examining the role of reproductive freedom in ensuring the full-range of civil liberties.

"The ability to control when and whether to have children is absolutely essential for women to be able to participate equally in society," said Louise Melling, Director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. "So much of the ACLU's work - from racial justice to lesbian and gay rights to women's and immigrants' rights - is tied together by a belief that everyone has the right to make personal decisions about their intimate relationships free from government interference."

Matt Coles, Director of the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project, says in the video: "Roe takes a concept of individual liberty that was very conventional and moves it past the conventional into something that very much focuses on individuals, and empowers individuals. The Constitution had already said that you have the right to think what you want, to have your own views of the world. What Roe did is to say, ‘And you have the right to live your life that way, without government interference. You have the right to decide what you think is good, what makes for a good life, and to live it.'"

The video, available on the ACLU's website, YouTube, and MySpace, also featues interviews with ACLU staff, including Melling; Coles; Lenora Lapidus, Director of the Women's Rights Project; Dennis Parker, Director of the Racial Justice Program; Judy Rabinovitz, Senior Staff Attorney with the Immigrants' Rights Project; and Jamil Dakwar, Advocacy Director of the Human Rights Program.

For more Roe v. Wade 35th anniversary materials visit: www.aclu.org/reproductiverights/index.html

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Breeze54

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Tue Jan-22-08 05:55 PM
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1. . . . the right to choose is hanging by a thread.

From: Kathleen Turner - Activist and PFAWF Board Member
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:37 PM
Subject: 35 years ago today. . .

35 years after the Supreme Court affirmed that women have the right to make their own reproductive choices

. . . the right to choose is hanging by a thread.

One more Justice who is not committed to upholding women's rights could mean the end to our

reproductive freedom for decades. And there is only one way you and I can stop that from happening . . .

to elect a President and Senators this year who will defend the right to choose NO MATTER WHAT.

That's why I'm lending my voice and my dollars to People For the American Way's "Take Back the Court" campaign.

I simply will not sit by and watch the Court roll back my rights. http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=drKMJWOFIfLPIdI&s=grKWJ7PJKeJNL0PDIoG&m=lvLZLhP2JqJaG">I urge you to join me today.

PFAW urgently needs funds now to get this message out to every voter . . .

When you vote for President or for a Senator this fall, you're voting for the Supreme Court.

Last week PFAW unveiled its first Take Back the Court radio ads in Maine. I recorded the ads
to remind voters that we simply can't afford any more so-called "pro-choice" Senators who will
vote to confirm Supreme Court nominees like Roberts and Alito. . . not this year.

PFAW must have additional funds to get radio ads more air time in Maine and in other critical states.

And they must have funds for a massive campaign to

MAKE THE SUPREME COURT A CENTRAL ISSUE IN THE 2008 CAMPAIGN.

http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=gkISK5PRLiKWKnL&s=grKWJ7PJKeJNL0PDIoG&m=lvLZLhP2JqJaG">Please join me with a gift of $30, $45, $75 or even $150 RIGHT NOW.

I remember the days before Roe v. Wade . . . when women risked their lives to end an unwanted pregnancy.

WE MUST NOT GO BACK TO THOSE DANGEROUS DAYS.

http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=9nJELKMpFbJJI3K&s=grKWJ7PJKeJNL0PDIoG&m=lvLZLhP2JqJaG">Please join PFAW’s Take Back the Court campaign today to help work for a Supreme Court that will protect all our rights and liberties.

Thank you.

Kathleen Turner
Activist and PFAWF Board Member

Thanks for posting this, babylonsister! :hi:

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Tue Jan-22-08 07:13 PM
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