Abortion-rights groups target Palin

[bliss_eternal]

Abortion-rights groups target Palin
By Alexander Bolton

Posted: 09/05/08 02:32 PM

Three major advocates of abortion rights are planning to spend nearly $30 million to defeat John McCain’s run for president, citing his new running mate as the core reason.

NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood and EMILY’s List have Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) in their crosshairs, calling her a staunch opponent of abortion rights.

“This is the most anti-choice ticket in history of the Republican Party,” said Beth Shipp, the political director of NARAL. “McCain put someone as outside the mainstream as you can on his ticket, which is Sarah Palin,” Shipp added.

Hoping to drive a wedge between the pro-life GOP base and party centrists who favor abortion rights, NARAL Pro-Choice America plans to raise and spend $10 million to communicate to voters in 34 to 35 congressional districts and battleground states. The group is also targeting independents.

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excerpt from:

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/abortion-rights-groups-target-palin-2008-09-05.html

link and article from:
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/news/choice_in_the_headlines/

[ismnotwasm]

1. She is freaking scary

She's a typical white woman living with white, middle class privilege. She has the luxury of choice and the luxury of a forced birth opinion.

If I got pregnant today, let's see. I'm 48, with grown children. I have an disabled husband, so I'm the sole provider for my family. My pregnancies were complicated by pre-clampsia, and despite being young and healthy at the time I became very sick, and I don't see that changing with age.

According to Palin, I should risk my life, affecting my entire family, possibly becoming very ill or disabled myself to fulfill some fantasy of what life is, or what life means.

To reiterate, I should risk losing my job, my home, my health and my life because she believes a certain way, and wants to force that belief on me. My husbands condition (MS) is very effected by stress, so I would be risking him as well.

I can't begin to explain how sick that makes me.

[bliss_eternal]

2. Makes me sick, too...

...and it frightens me a bit. That so many have so little regard for people--the human beings they dictate and force their will upon with all this crap.

The crazy thing is, they get abortions. The may get them quietly, but they get them.

Palin reminds me a bit of that republican actress, what's her name? Oh yeah...P. Heaton. :eyes: I try so hard not to shit talk about women. But women like this...ugh. They're just as bad as men as far as dictating the choices of women who's lives look nothing like their own.

[Control-Z]

4. women like this

'But women like this...ugh. They're just as bad as men as far as dictating the choices of women who's lives look nothing like their own. '

No. They are far worse, imo. And more dangerous.

[bliss_eternal]

5. I believe you are correct....

...I agree actually. I do expect better from women, but right wing women (and even some progressives) have lowered my expectations considerably. (sigh)

:hi:Good to see you--how are you?

[cindydivine]

3. Absolutely....

I admit my own bias when I hear women speaking against the very thing (in my mind) that women should support. It disgusts me really...

I think the most Freudian thing she stated was that her daughter Palin "decided" or "chose" (i recognize I might be misquoting, but I know that it was something that quantified) to keep her child and get married. It blows my mind that she had the unbelievable BALLS to say that when her opinion is so staunchly pro-life.

Really? Not in the case of rape?? really? bad form... jeebus... bad form...

[iverglas]

6. exactly what my mum said the other day!

Well, without the adjective. ;) "Scary person", I think it was. She's decided she will change the channel whenever she sees her on TV from now on. Too scary.

My mum's 78, and a kinda average 1950s housewife (as they were known then) -- a little more intelligent and a lot more thoughtful than her peers in the senior cits' building, granted. But she's scared all the way across the border.