Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Gee Karen Hughes Does W Still Stand for Women?

Huffington Post: According to the State Dept website, the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy & Public Affairs, Karen Hughes, said this: "I'll never forget visiting a literacy program overseas where young women were learning to read and I listened through a translator as a 13 yr old girl told me of her dreams of becoming a writer and her belief that women should be able to go to school and work and choose their own husband. As I was leaving, the translator stopped me and said: 'Please don't forget them. Please help them live in freedom.' " Gee Karen, what about the fact that the new Iraqi Constitution erodes away women's rights?: Most worrying for women's groups has been the section on civil rights, which some believe would significantly roll back women's rights under a 1959 civil law enacted by a secular regime, as Shariah law is implemented for marriage, inheritance and all civil rights. Who really cares that this op/ed from the St Pete's Times says that emancipation is just a thing of the past for Muslim females? I guess you will still keep feeding us that W is for women shit when Roe is overturned as Attorney Gonzales ghoulishly warns us that "The legal right to abortion is settled for lower courts, but the Supreme Crt is not obliged to follow." AND Gonzales said "A justice does not have to follow a previous ruling if you believe it's wrong," a comment suggesting Roberts would not be bound by his past statement that the 1973 decision settled the issue. Hmm, I think Ted Rall is absolutely correct when he says that all women who have just been putting off having that pesky abortion should RUN not walk to get their's while the getting is good, and that it will take cute blonde cheerleaders from Red States bleeding to death in their school locker rooms before anyone dares to question if keeping abortion legal is really the lesser of 2 evils.
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