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>>When I was in NOW many years ago, it was very diferse: along racial lines, age, and sexual orientation. It reflected the community well. If you were in a chapter that was alarmingly white and middle class, I expect that was because you chose to live in a white middle class neighborhood.<<
I don't live in white-middle-class land. I live in inner-city Chicago, 75% of the population belonging to anything but what you described. Today the Chicago-chapter is opened part-time and cannot even afford a receptionist. "Please leave a message and SOMEONE will get back to you...".
As you said, your membership was many years ago. So was mine, I guess. But the bottomline from 88-92 was "CELEBRITY!" "Hey guys, let's have a big rally and invite all of these poor grassroots groups (for brawn, 'cause we wrich white girls are the brains) and let's have Raquel Welch, Jill Eichenberry and Polly Bergen flown in to speak on the issues!"
No. Really. That's what your sisters-in-arms did with the money they raised. And what a difference it made.
Technology and medical advancement has made abortion in first three months almost a mootpoint. And as someone said uptopic, there's more than one side to this article.
I still maintain that the so-called caretakers of the pro-choice argument gave themselves a clitirectomy, and sold their souls to the devil. The fact that this issue is still debated and Roe v. Wade is being flushed down the drain AND you can't get your birth control prescription filled at some pharmacies SAYS IT ALL.
The most dangerous word in the English language is "BUT". "Yeah we're (pro-choice groups) raggedy-assed and fucked up BUT they're (pro-life) evil."
That may be true, but apparently ain't nobody buying it. Even Hillary is jumping off the good ship pro-Abortion shop.
Well, cosmicmojo, you can hold on tightly to the fantasy of these feminists groups having yo' back, but I'm doing what I want to do by any mean necessary and I ain't sitting around waiting those out-of-gas-and-time crones to "save me" the way they believe I deserved to be saved.
