Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 1714 Editor's Choice: 20
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Say What?
[Read the article: Michelle Obama's sacrifice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is Debeora is coning us? Is she really she is a feminist.
Black women led the rest of us into feminism. After all the feminist movement in the 70s rolled out of the civil rights movement of the 60s.
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How about these blazers
[Read the article: Michelle Obama's sacrifice]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chirly Chism, Rosa Parks, Charlene Hunter Golf.
Angela Davis.
Over the years Planned Parenthoood has had many Balck female leaders.
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Emigration, English & Lou Dobbs
[Read the article: Is Rush Limbaugh right?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This past 2 years I have been engaged in ancestor research. In this process I have reviewed all the immigration reform over the years. I find distrubing that the new reforms require new immigrants to speak English before they will be allowed to immigrate. This has been tried in the past with each new group and it was alwasy defeated. It seems much of the rhetoric about immigration reform is focused on the migrants from the south of the border, which leads me to believe the white guys from the "old boys club" are very disturbed about the fact they are becoming a minority.
Besides Rush,there is Lou Dobbs. Before Lou started ranting about immigration on CNN (mostly from south of the border), there was no pulbic outcry for immigration reform. What will Lou rant about when they pass reforms.
As I took my morning alk through our neighborhood, I thought what would we all do without the immigrants. In my neighborhood, they take care of the children, clean the houses,
care for the landscapes, and work on construction. In our state the pick all the agricultural produce that we ALL eat each day and buy at reasonable prices. Those who rant are the same people who are unwilling to pay a higher wage for these services. These immigrants do give back, and contribute taxes. They buy food, cothing, cars, gas,ect.
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Making abortionn illegal won't make it go away
[Read the article: The next generation of abortion providers?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As one of the a graying population, I lived through the days when abortion was illegal. Candidates seem to be wary today of supporting for Roe and brush it off as no big deal saying the states can decide. Roe v. Wade had support in 1970s because at that time it was up to the states to decide. It was legal in some states and illegal in most. Only women of means could travel to get a safe abortion. Others resorted to unsafe self induced abortions, the kitchen table, the shack in back, the apartment complex in Chicago, or a trip to Mexico. Graying doctors support Roe because they saw the results of illegal abortions in the emergency rooms of hospitals pre Roe. In the late 60s a Clergy Physicians network formed to counsel and help women get safer, but not legal abortions.
Why do we even call physicians "abortion" doctors. Physicians who perform abortions today are licensed medical professionals...They are OBGYNs. Most middle class and wealthy women don't go to the local Planned Parenthood, they get their abortions from their own OBGYN. It is the young, working class and poor who seek abortions from clinics or those who live in areas where women would be too embarassed to go to their own OBGYN. Late term abortions like those banned now are not performed at the local clinic. Now an OBGYN with a patient facing critical health issues late in pregnancy will be afraid to help women in crisis for fear of loosing their license. These women will have ther reprodcutive health compromised or possibly die. Exactly like pre- Roe.
Doctors have become less willing to volunteer to perform abortions at clinics since the 90s because of the risk to their lives and their families after Pro-lifers killed doctors and continue to harass their families.
The problem today is the younger generation has no idea what it will be like if Roe goes. They seem to be too wrapped up in their own lives to care to fight for their reproductive rights or the rights of other women. Poor and lower class women will suffer the most, as they often do not have the power to fight for their rights. The Eugenics argument is BULL!
Ask your grandmother or mother, if she ever had an abortion...you will be surprised.
Some of my friends wonder why I am no longer an activist. My answer is this....It is time for the younger generation to step up to the plate or loose thier reproductive rights. If the younger generation continue to be apathetic, maybe just maybe, they need loose their reproductive rights and fight the battle again.
Roe WILL GO if you do not speak up and get out to vote for a pro-choice candidates in 2008. Let the candidates know you will only vote pro-choice, or maybe just maybe you don't give a damn. Ask your OBGYN if they perform abortions for their patients or support ROE. If they don't get a new OBGYN.
Don't have time? DONATE, DONATE, DONATE $$$ to pro-choice orgs.
Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Physicians for Choice, Medical Students for Choice.
Reminds me got to go write another chick.
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Trudy's lette ri full of is illogic
[Read the article: The next generation of abortion providers?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most Illegal abortions were not being perforemd by doctors.
Since Roe v. Wade doctors could perform abortions legally, thus making it safer.
Today legal abortins are providedby medical profesionals oin medically licensed health clinics.