Molly Yard has died

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Molly Yard, the longtime liberal activist who led the National Organization for Women during the fight over the nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, has died. She was 93.


Yard died Wednesday in the Fair Oaks Nursing Home in Pittsburgh, said her son, James Garrett, an assistant U.S. attorney.

Yard was elected president of NOW in 1987 after nearly a decade on its national staff. She stepped down in late 1991, after suffering a stroke at her office earlier that year.

She made NOW more visible and worked against Bork, whom the Senate rejected as President Reagan's high court nominee after a bitter political battle in 1987. She said he might provide a fifth vote to override the high court's 1973 ruling legalizing abortion.

Edited to remove the reference to the rightwing gasbag. He wasn't fit to fold Ms. Yard's bra.

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1. Confirmed: AP

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-09-21-obituary-yard_x.htm

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9. Truly, she was one of the great ones

Molly Yard, a great woman, a great American, a great Democrat, and a great leader. She will be missed.

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2. and she would be.....who exactly? nt.

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3. Um... you're kidding, right?

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7. Look her up in Wikipedia

and this is what you'll find.

Molly Yard (born July 6, 1912 in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China as Mary Alexander Yard, the daughter of Methodist missionaries) is a U.S. administrator, social activist, and feminist who served as National Organization for Women President from 1987 to 1991. Having previously served as an assistant to Eleanor Roosevelt, she connected first-wave feminism with second-wave feminism. She received the Feminist Majority Foundation's lifetime achievement award for "tireless work for women's rights, for women and girls in sports, for the Equal Rights Amendment for Women, for civil rights for all Americans, for her championing of the trade union movement, and her devotion to world peace and non-violence."

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8. Wasn't that explained in the OP?

Or was it too much of a bother to actually READ THE POST?

RIP, Molly.

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13. Molly Yard . . . hard-working women's rights leader . . .

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Rest in Peace, Ms. Yard, A Job Well-done!



AP, Wednesday, September 21, 2:03 PM EDT,
Molly Yard (left forefront) president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) stands beside actresses Marlo Thomas (center), Whoopi Goldberg (second from right), and Cybill Shepherd (extreme right), participate in an abortion rights march in Washington, April 10, 1989. Yard died at the age of 93 on September 21, 2005. (AP Photo/Doug Mills-File)

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Yard (wikipedia overview)

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[SteppingRazor]

4. Confirmed by wikipedia...

by the way, did Rush make sure to call her a "feminazi"? :eyes:

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5. I didn't hear the show, just got a call from a friend of mine

Someone in the next cube over listens to Rush apparently.

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6. I'm sure

that the Fat Bastard was spewing hatred and glee. There'll be a special place in hell for him, you know.

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10. RIP, Molly - Limbaw's hatred is an emblem of her humanity and heroism

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11. Very true.

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12. RIP Molly.

Many young women owe you their lives.

She fought until she could fight no more.

A true warrior.

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14. Nominated

and kicked.

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15. A really great human being (to judge her by her friends) and an ..

.. excellent activist ...