"There is, in Cuba, government intrusion into everyone's life, from the moment he is born until the day he dies. The reasoning is that the government wants to better the lives of its citizens and keep them from exploiting or hurting one another. ... On a sunny day in a park in the old city of Havana it is difficult to see anything that is sinister."
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NBC reporter Ed Rabel on Cuban life, "Sunday Today," February 28, 1988.
Radical Women
"Just ask any anti-abortion terrorist. They'll tell you that guns and violence work. What these brownshirts won't say is that their goon tactics only succeed until the victim fights back and shows that she too is willing to use guns. ... For years, liberal feminists have begged the police, Democrats and federal marshals to defend women's clinics, with little to show for their efforts. Fight fire with fire. The gauntlet has been thrown down. It is time for feminists to organize armed patrols to defend every single abortion clinic. We're in a war over fundamental liberties, and it has escalated into a shooting war. The next time a revolver-waving maniac approaches a clinic, defenders must be ready to use equal force. If these thugs know that's the reception they can expect, they'll think twice. Save a woman's life — demand a gun."
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A Radical Women flyer passed out at the October 27, 1998 "Speak Out" sponsored by the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and the National Organization for Women (NOW), a reprint of a 1995 Freedom Socialist article. Described in Joni Scott. "From Hate Rhetoric to Hate Crime: A Link Acknowledged Too Late." The Humanist, January/February 1999, pages 8 to 14.
"Only titanic social upheaval, with a revolutionary scope unprecedented in human history, can turn the imperialist male supremacist system upside down, restore humanity to economic democracy, and then begin to reconstruct the contours of sexual politics after 5000 years of deformity and counterrevolution ... The mandate for revolutionary feminists is to transform the birthplace of sexism — the private property system — into its opposite and only enemy: Socialism, the graveyard of sexism. The bourgeois father of male supremacy must be overthrown and replaced by the matriarchal democracy of socialist economics and a human culture ... Therefore, real equality for women demands not only the death of capitalism and all systems of private property, but the corresponding eradication of the state-enforced bourgeois monogamous family, the mechanism that perpetuates oppression.
"In the institution of the nuclear family, the children are at the bottom of the hierarchy, with no legal rights, no control over their lives. Society itself must assume responsibility for its young in order to socialize them, allow parents a greater degree of personal liberty and guarantee children freedom from the oppression of the nuclear family."
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Radical Women Pre-Conference Discussion Bulletin. "Draft Radical Women Manifesto: Theory, Program and Structure." San Francisco: Radical Women National Office, December 15, 1989. 49 pages, pages 13 and 27.
"We are critical of all past ideology, literature and philosophy, products as they are of male supremacist culture. We are re-examining even our words, language itself."
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"PRINCIPLES (New York Radical Women)." Sisterhood is Powerful (Robin Morgan, editor) [New York City: Vintage Books], 1970, page 520.
"Socialism is the goal, and feminism the means of getting there. They are inseparable because the entire profit structure of capitalism depends on the cheap and unpaid labor of women and people of color. Also because sex inequality, like racism, is a fundamental social prop of the system."
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Radical Women "Manifesto," adopted at the 1990 conference in Santa Monica, California entitled "The Third Wave of Feminism: A Candidly Revolutionary Approach."
"[Women] spoke out for abortion at a time when it wasn't a topic discussed in public, and they were willing to break the law in order to win abortion reforms."
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Mary Ann Curtis of Los Angeles Radical Women, quoted in the Freedom Socialist, June-August 1989, page 8.
"Although the recent [$107 million] verdict against American Coalition of Life Activists, Advocates for Life Ministries, Andrew Burnett, Catherine Ramey and other anti-abortion terrorists is a victory for a woman's right to control her body and her life. We must demand specific free-speech protections for feminists and civil rights activists and te the abortion-rights movement into the streets. ... These thugs may claim to be simply exercising their free-speech rights, but their terrorism restricts the free expression and privacy rights of all women seeking abortions. ... While this decision could be used to squelch political dissent, it would be an illogical application. The expression of those who are trying to expand the human rights of oppressed groups needs to be protected. The expression of those attempting to restrict the rights of oppressed groups needs to be condemned."
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Letter by Jordana Sardo, Radical Women-Portland. The Oregonian, February 9, 1999.
"We take the woman's side in everything.
"We ask not if something is "reformist," "radical," "revolutionary", or "moral." We ask: Is it good for women or bad for women?
"We ask not if something is "political." We ask: Is it effective? Does it get us closest to what we really want in the fastest way?
"We define the best interests of women as the best interests of the poorest, most insulted, most despised, most abused woman on earth. Her lot, her suffering and abuse is the threat that men use against all of us to keep us in line. She is what all women fear being called, fear being treated as and yet what we all really are in the eyes of men. She is nag, hag, whore, f—ing and breeding machine, mother of us all. Until Everywoman is free, no woman will be free. When her beauty and knowledge is revealed and seen, the new day will be at hand.
"We are critical of all past ideology, literature and philosophy, products as they are of male supremacist culture. We are re-examining even our words, language itself.
"We take as our source the hitherto unrecognized culture of women, a culture which from long experience of oppression developed an intense appreciation for life, sensitivity to unspoken thoughts and the complexity of simple things, a powerful knowledge of human needs and feelings.
"We regard our feelings as our most important source of political understanding.
"We see the key to our liberation in our collective wisdom and our collective strength."
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New York Radical Women. "Principles."
Raelean Movement
"The Catholic Church, which is currently responsible for so many sexual and financial scandals, claims to count hundreds of millions of followers. However, most of them disagree with the official stances of this church on such topics as divorce, contraception, abortion and homosexuality, to name just a few. In fact, the majority of the so-called Catholics do not at all follow the Pope's exhortations on such matters. Nevertheless, if you happen to have been baptized as a child, without even having been asked, you are officially listed as a Catholic and therefore expected to support the Catholic Church. This organization relies on this number of followers to justify its positions and sometimes cover the criminal activity of its pedophile priests. The only way to show your opposition is to officially apostatize in writing. This means to renounce the Catholic Church so that it can no longer count you among its followers. The members of the International Raelian Movement are soon going to be in the streets in every country to launch a campaign to encourage Apostasy, by distributing simple forms to be sent to the bishops of the areas where the baptisms had taken place. This campaign has nothing to do with renouncing Jesus or his message, but it's only about renouncing an organization that has betrayed Jesus' messages of love and justice, and still betrays them to this day. In fact, most Catholics have not set foot in a church for a long time anyway … and may not even feel Catholic at all! But as long as you have not officially apostatize in writing, the Catholic Church still counts you among its followers in order to increase its power! Whether you are divorced (50% of marriages end this way), use contraception (80% of people use it), underwent abortion, are homosexual, or have been a victim of a pedophile priest, show you opposition to the Catholic Church WHICH DOES NOT RECOGNIZE YOUR RIGHTS, by officially apostatizing. To apostatize is to fight for your rights and your freedom to be different.
Raelianism advocates sexual freedom between consenting adults but considers pedophilia, rape and other sexual abuses as criminal and pathological acts that must be immediately denounced to legal authorities, even when committed by priests and bishops."
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"Rael Launches a Huge Apostasy Campaign for Catholics." Downloaded from www.apostasie.org on May 29, 2002.
Ragsdale, Katherine Hancock ('Religious' Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC))
"We must give up the idea that we can cling to some moral certainty."
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Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president of the 'Religious' Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), quoted in "Church Groups Lobby for the destruction of Unborn." American Family Association Journal, January 1997, page 9.
"What we need to be talking about is reality-based, age-appropriate sex education and safe and affordable contraception. We need to be talking about welfare and childcare and violence at home, on the streets, in our families. We need to be looking for new ways to solve our problems, not new ways to punish victims and the people who care for them. ... There will still be kids who can't talk to their parents, and there will still be kids who can and should talk to their parents ... kids who should, but they won't. Is that a bad idea? Is that bad judgment? Absolutely. ... But teenagers have been known to exercise bad judgment — it's what they do — and there is no law any of us can pass that will stop that from happening."
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Episcopalian 'priest' Katherine Hancock Ragsdale (former President of the 'Religious' Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC)), who has dedicated herself to transporting minors to states that perform abortions without parental consent, quoted in Bill Fancher. "Episcopalian Priest Resolute on Helping Minors Get Abortions." AgapePress, September 19, 2001 [NOTE: Ragsdale is upset over the latest effort to get the Child Custody Protection Act into law — legislation she is fighting because it would criminalize what she does. She says that is why people like herself are needed. She vows to continue to help minor get abortions, a job she says is "God's calling"].
Raines, Howell (New York Times)
"Then one day in the summer of 1981 I found myself at the L.L. Bean store in Freeport, Maine. I was a correspondent in the White House in those days, and my work — which consisted of reporting on President Reagan's success in making life harder for citizens who were not born rich, white, and healthy — saddened me. ... My parents raised me to admire generosity and to feel pity. I had arrived in our nation's capital [in 1981] during a historic ascendancy of greed and hard-heartedness. ... Reagan couldn't tie his shoes if his life depended on it."
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New York Times editorial page editor (and former Washington Bureau Chief) Howell Raines, in his book Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis.
Ramsey, Paul ('bioethicist')
"[Scientists] have the right to exercise their professional activities to the limit ... as lay attitudes struggle to catch up with what scientists can do."
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Paul Ramsey, Ph.D. Quoted in "On In-Vitro Fertilization." Human Life Review, Winter 1979, pages 17 to 30.
Rankin, Robert
"[C]ountless liberal analysts over the last five years have documented time and again how Reaganomics delivered a feast to the greedheads and starvation to the poor....[The Gilded Age and The Roaring Twenties] were marked by the same kinds of excesses as the 1980s — gross concentrations of wealth in the hands of a tiny privileged elite, achieved primarily by deliberate Republican policies that left most Americans behind while debt, greed, and conspicuous consumption soared out of control."
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Robert Rankin, national economics correspondent for Knight-Ridder Newspapers, in the July 22, 1990 Philadelphia Inquirer.
Rao, Ramaa P.
"It is generally believed that the contraceptive action of the nonmedicated IUDs involves the production of a local sterile inflammatory reaction. As with any instrumentation, insertion of an IUD introduces some bacteria from the cervix and vagina into the endometrial cavity. Within two to four weeks after insertion of the device, the uterine cavity becomes sterile. However, the presence of an IUD initiates mobilization of leukocytes from the capillaries into the endometrial stroma and surface epithelium. Polymorphonuclear leukocytes appear first, followed by lymphocytes, eosinophils, macrophages and plasma cells. This leukocytic response, which persists as long as the IUD remains in place, creates an endometrial environment hostile to the blastocyst. Such macrophages also accumulate in the endometrial cavity and phagocytosis of spermatozoa occurs, thereby preventing fertilization. The degree of this inflammatory response seems to be related to the material used in the construction of the IUD. ... The FDA has recently approved a T-shaped IUD (Progestasert) which releases 65 mcg. of progesterone per day for one year. The minute amounts of progesterone released by the system cause endometrial glandular atrophy and decidual changes in the stroma, creating an environment hostile to nidation. Effects on sperm migration and sperm capacitation have also been postulated. The effect of the natural hormone is localized at the endometrium because the small amount of progesterone released each day (only a fraction of the total body production) is metabolized rapidly as it traverses the endometrial layer, so that little progesterone is absorbed systemically (Figure 2). Hence, unlike oral hormonal contraception, the progesterone IUD does not inhibit ovulation or affect the length of the menstrual cycle.
"While the IUD is effective in preventing over 98 percent of intrauterine pregnancies, it is less than 90 percent effective in preventing tubal pregnancies. If a patient becomes pregnant while she still has an IUD in place, the chances are more than one in 20 that they pregnancy is ectopic. ... About half of the patients who conceive with an IUD in place will abort; the rest will carry to term, with no problem to the mother or the fetus."
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Ramaa P. Rao and Antonio Scommegna. "Intrauterine Contraception." AFP, November 1977, pages 176 to 185.
Ramey, James (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS))
"Incest seldom has anything to do with sexually 'perverse' behavior. [Studies show] healthy situations where incest was an obviously appropriate behavior. ... We often ignore those instances in which incest victims flatly refuse to cooperate against a love partner. In such cases these individuals and their families often appear happy and well-adjusted despite the incest — which is usually brought to the attention of the authorities by a third party. ... We are roughly in the same position today regarding incest as we were a hundred years ago with respect to our fears of masturbation."
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James Ramey of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). "Dealing With the Last Taboo." Psychology Today, March 1980 and "Breaking the Incest Taboo." The Progressive, May 1981.
"Rappin' 4-Tay" (rap group)
"Revenge is a motherf—er. I'm gone be that sucker-ducker. Creepin' with my blade until you feel that mother all up in your testicles. I'll turn you into a vegetable. Dissect that ass Yeah, somethin' extra-terrestrial. Cause it's a different ball game behind these wall, and if you're soft at all, a nigga gon' get them drawers and take your manhood. You can't have it back, silly rabbit. Now how you gon' call your bitch and tell her they turned you into a faggot."
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The 'rap' group "Rappin' 4-Tay." "25-2-Life." Off Parole (Chrysalis, owned by Thorn/EMI Labels).
Rather, Dan (CBS)
"Senator Simon, is there any doubt in your mind that [Souter's] views pretty well parallel those of John Sununu's which means he's anti-abortion or anti-women's rights, whichever way you want to put it?"
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CBS "Evening News" anchor Dan Rather, CBS "Evening News," July 23, 1990.
Dan Rather: "Some days I say 'Why is he [Clinton] doing that?' or 'Gosh, can he do it a little better?' But it may be time to, sort of as you say, chill. We know when it comes to politics and governing, whatever you think of this President, whether you voted for him or not, he can hang — which is to say he can do it ..."
Arsenio Hall: "See! See! Dan is deep, ain't he? Dan in the Hood! ... I thank you for being here. You're a special guy. And I hope whatever you have is contagious."
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Exchange from "The Arsenio Hall Show," January 28, 1993.
"If we could be one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been in the White House, we'd take it right now and walk away winners. ... Thank you very much and tell Mrs. Clinton we respect her and we're pulling for her."
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Dan Rather at a May 27, 1993 meeting of CBS station affiliate's managers, talking via satellite to President Clinton about his then new on-air partnership with Connie Chung as co-anchor.
"Gays and lesbians are beaten to death in the streets with increasing frequency — in part due to irrational fear of AIDS but also because hatemongers, from comedians to the worst of the Christian right, send the message that homosexuals have no value in our society. Sometimes that message has a major-party affiliation and a request for a campaign contribution. In the post-cold war era, gays have been drafted to replace Communists as the new menace to the American Way: We're told gays corrupt youth and commandeer art and entertainment to win converts."
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Dan Rather in "The Nation," April 11, 1994 edition.
"Questions abound about how and why Republican Kenneth Starr suddenly came to be the new Independent Counsel in the Whitewater case replacing Republican Robert Fiske. New disclosures are fueling questions about whether or not Starr is an ambitious Republican partisan backed by ideologically-motivated, anti-Clinton activists and judges from the Reagan, Bush, and Nixon years. Correspondent Eric Engberg has tonight's "CBS Evening News" reality check."
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Dan Rather, August 12, 1994 "CBS Evening News."
"It's one of the great political myths, about press bias. Most reporters are interested in a story. Most reporters don't know whether they're Republican or Democrat, and vote every which way. Now, a lot of politicians would like you to believe otherwise, but that's the truth of the matter. I've worked around journalism all of my life, Tom Snyder has as well, and I think he'll agree with this, that most reporters, when you get to know them, would fall in the general category of kind of common-sense moderates. And also, let me say that I don't think that 'liberal' or 'conservative' means very much any more, except to those kind of inside-the-Beltway people who want to use it for their own partisan political advantage. I don't think it holds up."
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Dan Rather answering a caller about liberal bias, on the February 8, 1995 CBS "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder.
"The new Republican majority in Congress took a big step today on its legislative agenda to demolish or damage government aid programs, many of them designed to help children and the poor."
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Dan Rather, March 16, 1995 CBS "Evening News."
Larry King: "Over all these fifteen years, how do you react to the constant, especially, far right-wing criticism that the news on CBS is mainstream biased?"
Dan Rather: "...Well, my answer to that is basically a good Texas phrase, which is bullfeathers. ... I think the fact that if someone survives for four or five years at or near the top in network television, you can just about bet they are pretty good at keeping independence in their reporting. What happens is a lot of people don't want independence. They want the news reported the way they want it for their own special political agendas or ideological reasons."
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CNN's "Larry King Live," March 11, 1996.
"I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda. Now respectfully, when you start talking about a liberal agenda and all the, quote, "liberal bias in the media," I quite frankly, and I say this respectfully but candidly to you, I don't know what you're talking about. Now if you want to talk about an issue, what do I believe as a citizen of the United States of America, I can tell you what I believe in. I believe in a strong defense, clean water, and tight money."
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Dan Rather to talk radio host Mike Rosen of KOA in Denver, November 28, 1995.
"Some of your staff members, not by name, have been saying 'Yes, the President thinks Bob Dole is a nice person and has been a pretty good leader in some ways, but, say they, he's been captured by extremists in the Republican Party, the radical part of the Republican Party, including Newt Gingrich.' Is that what you think?"
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Dan Rather interviewing President Clinton, August 18, 1996 "60 Minutes."
"Earlier tonight, we reported the President's apology for medical experiments that allowed black Americans to die of syphilis. The President noted how badly this hurt public trust in government, especially among minorities. The same criticism is being made today on another score. As CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports, it's the fallout from California's voter-approved ban on state affirmative action programs."
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Dan Rather, introducing the May 16, 1997 "CBS Evening News" story on the drop in minority admissions.
"An editor's note: When your reporter was in China recently, a very high ranking Chinese government official was repeatedly asked questions about religious persecution. He told me, and I quote directly, "These stories are untrue. We do, as you do, have some trouble with cults and we, like you, deal with them accordingly, but that's all." End quote."
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CBS News anchor Dan Rather, after a story on persecution of Christians in China, July 22, 1997 "Evening News."
"On another front, there could be trouble for the Ken Starr Whitewater investigation. Reports continue to surface that this key witness for the prosecution, David Hale, may have been secretly bankrolled by political activists widely regarded as Clinton opponents, people that Clinton supporters call Republican haters from the far right."
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CBS "Evening News" anchor Dan Rather, April 2, 1998 CBS "Evening News."
"I would not be astonished to see Hillary Clinton be the Democratic nominee in 2000. ... Hillary Clinton, as far as I'm concerned, she's the Person of the Year, if Time Magazine doesn't put her on the cover, they may put Mike, Mark McGwire, or Alan Greenspan, or somebody, but Hillary Clinton is the Person of the Year in that, you talk about a comeback kid — she makes her husband look like Ned in knee pants in terms of comeback from where she was early in the Clinton administration. You know, you add it all up, and you can make a case that Hillary Clinton might, might — mark the word — be the strongest candidate for the Democrats."
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CBS "Evening News" anchor Dan Rather on CNN's "Larry King Live," December 3, 1998.
"Senator, when you talk to other Senators, particularly older Senators — those who've been around for a bit — is or is there not some concern of the public, concern in some quarters, not all of them Democratic, that this is in fact a kind of effort at a quote 'coup,' that is you have a twice elected, popularly elected President of the United States and so those that you mentioned in the Republican Party who dislike him and what he stands for, having been unable to beat him at the polls, have found another way to get him out of office."
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Dan Rather to former Senator Warren Rudman (R) during CBS coverage of the swearing in of Senators for the Clinton impeachment trial, January 7, 1999.
Co-host Bill Press: "Why is it that you are the epitome of the left-wing liberal media in the mind of every conservative I've ever talked to? What did you do to get that reputation?"
CBS News anchor Dan Rather: "I remained an independent reporter who would not report the news the way they wanted it or — from the left or the right. I'm a lifetime reporter. All I ever dreamed of was being a journalist, and the definition of journalist to me was the guy who's an honest broker of information. ... I do subscribe to the idea of: 'Play no favorites and pull no punches.'"
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Exchange on CNN's "Crossfire," June 24, 1999.
Ravenholt, Charles
"Population control is needed to maintain the normal operation of United States commercial interests around the world. Without our trying to help those countries with their economic and social development, the world could rebel against the strong United States commercial presence. The self interest thing is a compelling element. If the population explosion proceeds unchecked, it will cause such terrible economic conditions abroad that revolutions will ensue. And revolutions are scarcely ever beneficial to the interests of the United States."
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Dr. Charles Ravenholt, Director, Population Office. Quoted in "Population Control of Third World Planned: Sterilization Storm in U.S." Dublin, Ireland Evening Press, May 12, 1979, page 9.
"With courage and scholarship, Stephen Mumford has during 20 years stood as a rock against the media code-of-silence tide which has fostered the incessant anti-democratic and anti-American machinations of the Vatican and Catholic Bishops — glaringly revealed in the 1975 'Bishops' Pastoral Plan for Prolife Activities.' "To rescue its tyrannical religious empire from encroaching scientific enlightenment, the Roman Catholic Church asserts the dogma of papal infallibility and thereby seeks to establish Vatican control of reproductive rights and democratic processes. The extent to which they succeeded during the 1970s and 80s in suppressing highest-level U.S. determinations of actions needed to protect the security of the U.S. and the world from explosive population increase — derailing the world-leading U.S. population/family planning assistance program — makes for dismal but essential reading for every true patriot concerned about our democratic future and the global environment."
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Reimert T. Ravenholt, M.D., President, Population Health Imperatives, Seattle, WA, Former Director, 1966-1979, Office of Population, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department of State, commenting on Stephen Mumford's virulently anti-Catholic on-line book The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy, downloaded from http://www.iti.com/iti/kzpg/ on September 22, 1998 (no longer available). The comment is included in the document.
"Redstockings Manifesto"
I. After centuries of individual and preliminary political struggle, women are uniting to achieve their final liberation from male supremacy. Redstockings is dedicated to building this unity and winning our freedom.
II. Women are an oppressed class. Our oppression is total, affecting every facet of our lives. We are exploited as sex objects, breeders, domestic servants, and cheap labor. We are considered inferior beings, whose only purpose is to enhance men's lives. Our humanity is denied. Our prescribed behavior is enforced by the threat of physical violence.
Because we have lived so intimately with our oppressors, in isolation from each other, we have been kept from seeing our personal suffering as a political condition. This creates the illusion that a woman's relationship with her man is a matter of interplay between two unique personalities, and can be worked out individually. In reality, every such relationship is a class relationship, and the conflicts between individual men and women are political conflicts that can only be solved collectively.
III. We identify the agents of our oppression as men. Male supremacy is the oldest, most basic form of domination. All other forms of exploitation and oppression (racism, capitalism, imperialism, etc.) are extensions of male supremacy: Men dominate women, a few men dominate the rest. All power structures throughout history have been male-dominated and male-oriented. Men have controlled all political, economic and cultural institutions and backed up this control with physical force. They have used their power to control with physical force. They have used their power to keep women in an inferior position. All men receive economic, sexual, and psychological benefits from male supremacy. All men have oppressed women.
IV. Attempts have been made to shift the burden of responsibility from men to institutions or to women themselves. We condemn these arguments as evasions. Institutions alone do not oppress; they are merely tools of the oppressor. To blame institutions implies that men and women are equally victimized, obscures the fact that men benefit from the subordination of women, and gives men the excuse that they are forced to be oppressors. On the contrary, any man is free to renounce his superior position provided that he is willing to be treated like a woman by other men.
We also reject the idea that women consent to or are to blame for their own oppression. Women's submission is not the result of brainwashing, stupidity, or mental illness but of continual, daily pressure from men. We do not need to change ourselves, but to change men.
The most slanderous evasion of all is that women can oppress men. The basis for this illusion is the isolation of individual relationships from their political context and the tendency of men to see any legitimate challenge to their privileges as persecution.
V. We regard our personal experience, and our feelings about that experience, as the basis for an analysis of our common situation. We cannot rely on existing ideologies as they are all products of male supremacist culture. We question every generalization and accept none that are not confirmed by our experience.
Our chief task at present is to develop female class consciousness through sharing experience and publicly exposing the sexist foundation of all our institutions. Consciousness-raising is not "therapy," which implies the existence of individual solutions and falsely assumes that the male-female relationship is purely personal, but the only method by which we can ensure that our program for liberation is based on the concrete realities of our lives.
The first requirement for raising class consciousness is honesty, in private and in public, with ourselves and other women.
VI. We identify with all women. We define our best interest as that of the poorest, most brutally exploited woman.
We repudiate all economic, racial, educational or status privileges that divide us from other women. We are determined to recognize and eliminate any prejudices we may hold against other women.
We are committed to achieving internal democracy. We will do whatever is necessary to ensure that every woman in our movement has an equal chance to participate, assume responsibility, and develop her political potential.
VII. We call on all our sisters to unite with us in struggle. We call on all men to give up their male privileges and support women's liberation in the interest of our humanity and their own.
In fighting for our liberation we will always take the side of women against their oppressors. We will not ask what is "revolutionary" or "reformist, "only what is good for women.
The time for individual skirmishes has passed. This time we are going all the way.
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The Redstockings Manifesto, which is required reading in many "Women's Studies" curricula in universities and colleges today [NOTE: Just enter "Redstockings Manifesto" into any Web search routing to demonstrate this] (emphasis in original).
Reed, Rex (film critic)
"Resist all temptations to avoid this exceptional film because of its subject matter (pedophilia) and see 'L.I.E.' fast. Trust me on this. You will experience one of the most profoundly moving motion pictures this year."
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Film critic Rex Reed, writing in The New York Observer. Quoted in Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, Chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition. "'L.I.E.' is Infomercial for North American Man-Boy Love Association." Traditional Values Coalition Opinion Editorial dated November 7, 2001 [NOTE: The film's name is short for "Long Island Expressway," and tells a sympathetic story of Howie, a 15-year-old boy who is pursued by Big John Harrigan, a former Marine and child molester].
Reed, Sheldon
"Our present-day use of the term 'human genetics' instead of 'eugenics' may be financially and politically expedient, but there is no great philosophical distinction between them."
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Eugenicist Sheldon Reed in 1957, quoted in Mary Meehan. "'Genetics' is Another Word for Eugenics." National Catholic Register, June 6, 1993, pages 1 and 8.
Reeve, Christopher (actor)
"We've had a severe violation of the separation of church and state in the handling of what to do about this emerging [fetal stem cell] technology. There are religious groups — the Jehovah's Witnesses, I believe — who think it's a sin to have a blood transfusion. Well, what if the president for some reason decided to listen to them, instead of to the Catholics, which is the group he really listens to in making his decisions about embryonic stem cell research? Where would we be with blood transfusions? I think we could have been, and should now be, much further along with scientific research than we actually are, and I think I would have been in quite a different situation than I am today."
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Actor Christopher "Superman" Reeve, to Britain's Guardian newspaper. "'Superman' Actor Blames Bush and Catholics for Lack of Progress: Former Star Desperately Supports Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Research." LifeSite Daily News, September 17, 2002 [NOTE: Reeve, who played Superman in 1978, is on record saying: "Actually, the Republicans have done more for the disabled and for funding medical research than the Democrats. But on many other issues, such as the environment, education, gun control, choice, I support the Democrats ... I would like to see a Democratic Congress"].
Refuse and Resist! (violent anarchist group)
"Outlawing Abortion Was — and Is — a Nazi Program!"
"The woman has the task of being pretty, and of bringing children into the world. That is not such a crude and old-fashioned idea as it sounds. The female bird cleans herself for her husband, and cares for the eggs. And in exchange, the male bird takes care of bringing home dinner. He also stands watch and fights away all enemies."
— Joseph Goebbels [Minister of Propagandafor Nazi Germany].
"If there is one man in history who can be credited with launching the compulsory child bearing movement, it is Adolph Hitler. Hitler's "right to life" accomplishments after coming to power are summarized by one historian: "On May 26, 1933, two pieces of penal legislation. ... prohibit[ed] the availability of abortion facilities and services. More important was the stricter handling of the old anti-abortion law, resulting in a 65 percent increase in yearly convictions between 1932 and 1938, when their number reached almost 7,000. From 1935 on, doctors and midwives were obliged to notify the regional State Health Office of every miscarriage. Women's names and addresses were then handed over to the police, who investigated the cases suspected of actually being abortions. In 1936 Heinrich Himmler, head of all police forces and the SS, established the Reich's Central Agency for the Struggle Against Homosexuality and Abortion, and in 1943, after three years of preparation by the Ministries of the Interior and of Justice, the law entitled Protection of Marriage, Family, Motherhood called for the death penalty in 'extreme cases'."
"Today's anti-abortionists, who bomb women's medical clinics, harass women seeking abortions, preach a traditional male-dominated family, and espouse the subordination of women to the state and church as "breeders," can certainly identify with a record like that! Like their storm-trooper predecessors, they delight in inflicting cruelty on women. Women who are already having to deal with unwanted pregnancies are screamed at, have pictures of aborted fetuses pushed in their faces, and are told that they simply must carry the fetus to term — in order to suffer the further pain of giving up an actual child. Sweet people, these "right to lifers"!
"And like their Nazi forebears, many of today's anti-abortionists are quite willing to accept abortion when the pregnancy is the result of "race mixing." When asked about the case of the white women allegedly raped by the Black paroled convict Willie Horton, Vice President Quayle quickly allowed that she should of course get a "d and c" (a fancy word for an abortion)! These are the same kind of reactionary politicians who have "no problem" with the sterilization of minority women.
"There is more at stake than a group of religious fanatics trying to impose their views on everyone else. The issue of abortion is the doorway through which many people are brought to the broader reactionary agenda of restoring America's "glory" as the undisputed imperial power in the world and upholding conservative domination at home. Maintaining the "sanctity of motherhood," keeping the women at home and subservient to the father and the state, is part and parcel of this. "Right to Life" means Father Right — and Fatherland — uber alles!
"The so-called "right to life" movement also serves to train and organize proto-fascist "popular action" forces. No matter how much they pose as decent and caring (some even try to disguise themselves as a civil rights movement!) what they are selling is pure poison.
"As the national Refuse & Resist! statement says: "To the Reaganites, racists, misogynists, televangelists, would-be Rambos, war planners, and America-firsters, we say the future is not yours." Take a stand today. Uphold women's right to abortion!"
"Women Are Not Breeders!"
Contact Refuse & Resist!
305 Madison Ave., Suite 1166
New York, NY 10165
Phone: 212-713-5657
email: refuse@calyx.com or resist@walrus.com
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Refuse and Resist! "Adolph Hitler: Father of the Right to Life Movement." Downloaded from the Refuse and Resist! Web Page at http://www.calyx.com/~refuse/altindex.html on April 24, 1997 (no longer available) [NOTE: Note that the "history" in this propaganda piece is completely unfootnoted and all totally fabricated for propaganda purposes].
Regan, T. (animal rights activist)
"If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to."
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T. Regan. The Case for Animal Rights. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
Reinish, Kate (Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA))
"How many teenagers are going to believe instruction by Congress that sex outside of marriage will make you crazy and physically harm you? Our fear is that many of these programs are based on religion, not public health. People will be learning fear and shame instead of responsibility. They'll be taught that a wedding ring will protect more than a condom."
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Kate Reinish, a spokeswoman for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), commenting on Congressional funding of abstinence-only education programs, as quoted in "Straw Men at Planned Parenthood." Denver Post, November 14, 1999.
'Religious' Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC, formerly the 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights (RCAR))
"Catholic theology, which now regards the early fetus as a person, did not always do so. The Church first adopted the belief of Aristotle, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas that ensoulment occurs several weeks after conception. Pope Innocent III, who ruled at the turn of the 13th Century, made that belief part of Church doctrine, allowing abortion until fetal animation. It was not until 1869 that the Church prohibited abortion at any time and for any reason."
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'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights (RCAR). June 1978 propaganda pamphlet entitled "ABORTION: Why Religious Organizations in the United States Want to Keep it Legal."
"Those who use this [Holocaust] analogy maintain that the proponents of freedom of choice have dehumanized the unborn child, just as the Nazis dehumanized the Jew. This is not true. ... No woman is forced to abort a pregnancy in this country. It must be stated as fact that no one is forced to submit to an abortion, that the power of the state has not been used in a coercive manner, and that Americans have not been forced or propagandized into supporting that which offends their religious beliefs or their moral convictions."
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Rabbi Charles D. Mintz. Quoted in "Abortion and the Holocaust: Twisting the Language." 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights [now the 'Religious' Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC)], 100 Maryland Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002, telephone: (202) 543-7032. 1987, 24 pages, $1.50. This booklet is stylishly written and laid out on only the best paper. It features five short essays by apostate 'Jews' and phony 'Christians' that are masterpieces of Doublethink and propaganda. This booklet is mandatory reading for any pro-lifer who wants insight into just how clever pro-abort propaganda can be.
"It would not occur to American Jews to suggest that the centuries-old attitude of our faith toward the question of abortion should become the required guide for all other Americans whose teachings on this matter may differ."
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Rabbi Ernst J. Conrad, writing for the 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights (RCAR) in the booklet "Abortion and the Holocaust: Twisting the Language." 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights, 100 Maryland Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002, telephone: (202) 543-7032. 1987, 24 pages, $1.50 [A more profoundly stupid statement could scarcely be imagined. While Conrad spews this nonsense, the group he represents (RCAR) does insist that its view on abortion be forced on all other Americans (the view that life begins at birth), and it does insist that all Americans fund abortions for poor women, regardless of their personal beliefs].
"The Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights shares the outrage of our member Jewish groups and other member religious bodies over statements by persons in the anti-choice movement equating the practice of abortion with the Nazi Holocaust."
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Mary Jane Patterson, President, RCAR Board of Directors. "Abortion and the Holocaust: Twisting the Language." 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights, 100 Maryland Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002, telephone: (202) 543-7032. 1987, 24 pages, $1.50 [NOTE: This booklet is stylishly written and laid out on only the best paper. It features five short essays by apostate 'Jews' and phony 'Christians' that are masterpieces of Doublethink and propaganda. This booklet is mandatory reading for any pro-lifer who wants insight into just how clever pro-abortion propaganda can be].
"The Roman church argues that although the death of the fetus is foreseen, it is not intended because the intention is to preserve the health and life of the woman. Isn't it just as reasonable to assert that the intention of most women is the separation of the fetus from the woman, not the killing of the fetus, though its death may be foreseen?"
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'Reverend' John M. Swomley. "Six Ethical Questions." Propaganda pamphlet by the 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights (RCAR), June 1987, page 3 [NOTE: As with every other ethical and moral question posed to pro-abortionists, "wanna-be" theologians stretch the 'double effect' to cover all abortions, and the effects are frequently comical, as seen here. Swomley obviously is not familiar with the principle of the double effect, which requires that the act producing two effects must itself be a morally good or neutral act to begin with. The only purpose of an abortion is to kill the unborn child, and such an action can never be good or even morally neutral, regardless of the circumstances or intentions surrounding it].
[NOTE: The purpose of the following is to show you the ways in which pro-abortion groups typically propagandize their followers with grossly exaggerated stories, "New Age" rituals, and weepy, invariably false "personal experience" stories. These rallies are designed to inflame the emotions of the listeners and cloud their minds, in essence brainwashing them so they are incapable of reasoning correctly.
This text is from a handout distributed at the "interfaith service" sponsored by the 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights (RCAR) and 'Catholics' for a Free Choice (CFFC) for the purpose of giving a thin pseudo-religious veneer of respectability to prenatal child murder. This "service," entitled "Praise Our Choices, Life Our Voices," was held on November 10, 1989 at the Reflecting Pool/Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, to "celebrate the Rally to Mobilize for Women's Lives" (known more accurately by pro-lifers as the "March for Death"). The "service" was written by Diann Neu, co-director of the New Age group called WATER, or the "Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual;" Rabbi Lynne Landsberg, the Associate Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; and Mary Jane Patterson, Director of the Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church, USA.
As you read, note the empty religious posturing and the appeal to raw emotion, with absolutely no consideration whatever for logic, reasoning or thinking. Notice also the paganistic and "New Age" basis of the ceremonies, with absolutely no trace of Judeo-Christian worship or ethics. You can also see how the pro-abortionists condemn pro-lifers and pray to God to forgive them as they go about their God-approved business of aborting his little preborn babies. This entire ceremony was nothing more than well-orchestrated and choreographed crocodile tears masquerading as authentic religious sentiment].
"Call to Celebration
"... We gather here today to prepare this space and ourselves for Sunday's rally, "Mobilize for Women's Lives." We gather to call forth the holiness of this place as we affirm the holiness of women's lives. ...
Blessings of Our Mothers
"We prepare this space by calling on our ancestors.
ANCESTRAL
Reader: Blessed are you, Holy One, All in All. You have given us our ancestral mothers: Sarah, Hagar, Rebecca, Leah, Rachel, Mirian. From these women we gain laughter, rage, grace, strength, tears, and joy.
All: Just as we never abandon them, so do we pray never to abandon ourselves.
PRESENT
Reader: Blessed are you, Holy One, All in All. You have given us our biological and adoptive mothers: Ida May, Gabriela, Mary Catherine, Sadie, Beatrice, and our own mothers. Let us call their names out loud.
All: (Respond with names).
Reader: From these women we gain life, sustenance, knowledge, pain, healing, and courage.
All: Just as we honor them, so do we pray always to honor ourselves.
Song: Second verse to "Walk Through These Doors," by Marsie Silvestro.
Foremothers of every race
Women standing strong and free
Walk through these doors with blessing.
Walk through these doors with peace.
Walk through these doors as holy ones.
Enter the words we speak.
Introduction to Stories
"Today we choose to tell the stories of these lives and their choices, especially the whispered stories, those around abortion.
First Story: "One Woman's Prayer," by an anonymous woman
"Introduction: Listen to the confession of an anonymous woman in "One Woman's Prayer."
"I AM GOING TO HAVE AN ABORTION, GOD — and I feel terribly alone.
"FOR SO OFTEN MY FAITH HAS CONDEMNED MY DECISION; and members of my faith have threatened me with expulsion; and others have reviled, cursed, called me "murderer" — for this that I must do.
"I have read the theological arguments and the philosophical debates against abortion, so frequently and so loudly proclaimed as God's Trust. But from them I hear only of the concern for the yet unborn life — I find no concern for the lives of those who face the valley of despair.
"As in Your Word, we find hope, and joy, and peace, and an honesty to face the responsibilities and decisions we must make. It is lonely not to be able to share this awful time with even closest friends and loved ones — but we cannot risk the hatred. And I cannot take this painful hurt to my beloved clergy — as I can not risk rejection. ... God, forgive my bitterness and anger at their coldness and prejudice. Help me to pray in Your words, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." ... It was an act of love that began this unwanted growth, and a decision of love that will end it. For I am too old to bear another child. I already have five at home for whom I am responsible. One of these is severely handicapped and retarded; and I can not forsake her future needs of me" [NOTE: Notice how RCAR and CFFC advance the story of this 'typical' abortion patient, ignoring the reality that more than four out of five abortions are committed by young women to cover up fornication]. Song: From "Singing for Our Lives."
"We are a gentle, loving people
And we are singing, singing for our lives.
We are a gentle, loving people
And we are singing, singing for our lives.
Second Story: Rosie's Story
"Last month, a 27-year-old Mexican-American, the unwed mother of a 4-year-old child, died in a hospital in McAllen, Texas, from complications caused by a cheap abortion in a nearby Mexican border town. The dead woman carried a Medicaid card, but it did her little good. On Aug. 4, the Federal government had stopped paying for abortions for the poor unless the life of the mother is endangered. The woman's life presumably was not in danger — not until she went across the border and paid $40 to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Legal abortions performed in McAllen, Texas, are a lot more expensive than that." — New York Times, November, 1977 [NOTE: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) investigated this death and found that Rosie's 1977 abortion was her third in the past five years. She had 'slept around' with literally dozens of men as her fiancee languished in jail, and even tried to conceal and deny her final abortion when dying in a hospital bed. The CDC report concluded that she actually possessed the money she needed to obtain a legal abortion, but had slipped across the border to Mexico for the sole purpose of preserving her confidentiality. She had done the same thing in 1975, even when Federal abortion payments were still available This shows that pro-abortionists are perfectly willing to omit such vital details in order to advance their cause].
Song: We are women making choices,
And we are singing, singing for our lives.
We are women making choices,
And we are singing, singing for our lives.
Third Story: "An Open Letter to 21 Million Women," by B.J. Isaacson-Jones
"Introduction: Listen to the pleas of those who work in reproductive health services.
Voice 1: Where are you? For over 15 years we have provided you with choices. Painful choices. I remember — I sometimes cried with you. Choices, nonetheless when you were desperate. Remember how we protected your privacy and treated you with dignity and respect when you were famous, had been brought to us in shackles with an armed guard, or wee terrified that you would run into one of your students? I remember each of you.
Voice 2: Our clinic was firebombed. Do you recall? Exhausted and terrified we had been up all night. We re-routed you to another clinic because you wanted an abortion that day. Where are you? Priding ourselves on providing abortion for those who cannot pay, we have spent millions of dollars that we never really had caring for you. We wanted to give you a choice. I also gave you cab fare and money for dinner from my pocket [NOTE: Abortion mills are in it for the money. Not a single reformed abortionist or abortion ever recounts having helped women in this way].
Voice 3: Have you forgotten? I remember you. You cried and asked me how you could carry this pregnancy to term when you were abusing the children you had; were having an affair; tested positive for AIDS; could not handle another; were raped by your mother's boyfriend; pregnant by your father and shocked and torn apart when your very much wanted and loved fetus was found to be severely deformed. Your mother picketed our clinic regularly. We brought you in after dark. Have you mustered the courage to tell her that you are prochoice? You are. Aren't you? [NOTE: Notice the total emphasis on the 'hard cases,' which comprise less than one percent of all abortions].
Voice 4: I recall shielding your shaking body, guiding you and your husband through the picket line. They screamed adoption, not abortion! You wondered how you could explain your choice to your four young children.
Voice 5: You broke our hearts. You had just celebrated your twelfth birthday when you came to us. You clutched your teddy bear, sucked your thumb and cried out for your mom who asked you why you had gotten yourself pregnant. You replied that you just wanted to be grown. You're 20 today. Where are you? [NOTE: Oh, please! Notice that such cases make up less than one out of every thousand abortions, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute]
Voice 6: I pretend I don't know you in the market, at social gatherings and on the street. I told you I would. After your procedure you told me that you would fight for reproductive choices (parenthood, adoption and abortion) for your mother, daughters and grandchildren. You will ... won't you? [NOTE: Can anyone remember any pro-abortion group fighting for motherhood or for abortion?] I have no regrets. I care about each and every one of you and treasure all that you've taught me. But I'm angry. I can't do this alone. I'm not asking you to speak of your abortion, but you need to speak out and you need to speak now. Where are you?
Praise our choices, lift our voices.
Song: We are speaking out together,
And we are singing, singing for our lives.
We are speaking out together,
And we are singing, singing for our lives.
[NOTE: So, in summary, the three "stories" given are from an anonymous woman (which almost certainly means that it was made up), a falsified picture of a Latina who died from an abortion that was not funded by the U.S. government, and a woman who runs an abortion mill].
Remembrance
"We are singing for our lives. We are mobilizing for our lives because our lives are in jeopardy. Women before us have been denied choice and therefore have been denied life.
"In their desperation they reached for help to enable them to live, instead the only hand that was extended was the hand of the angel of death.
"Today we mobilize for our lives, we mobilize in their memory.
Reading: "Eulogy for Women Denied Choice," by Maxine Parshall
"A million abortions a year, and before Roe few were done by a doctor — with sterile instruments — in a sterile environment [NOTE: This is a barefaced lie. None other than Alan Guttmacher, M.D., former Medical Director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), said that "Who performs illegal abortions? Here popular literature goes far astray with its lurid pictures of back-street quacks — filthy, ill-trained and incompetent. There are quacks, to be sure, but they are in the minority. Most abortions are performed by licensed physicians, usually at some personal risk. Dr. Guttmacher estimates that 80 percent of the abortions in the U.S. are performed by M.D.'s; Dr. Calderone says 90 percent. In one noted instance of record, a single physician in the Baltimore region, Dr. G. Lotrell Timanus, performed over 5,000 abortions before he was stopped by the law. Is it fair of us to ask physicians to perform operations that we are unwilling either to forego or to legalize?" (Alan Guttmacher, M.D. The Case for Legalized Abortion Now [Berkeley: Diablo Press], 1967, page 92)].
"Hundreds of thousands of you putting your lives in the hands of strangers with all manner of contraptions, none of which should ever have been allowed to touch a human body.
"But you were desperate, so terribly afraid and desperate.
"How many of you survived the coat hangers and knitting needles, they nonsterile injections, the perforations and infections?
"How many women? How many of our mothers? How many of your daughters?
"I want never to forget you, both the maimed and the dead [NOTE: Little chance of that! Those few women who did die of illegal abortions are just too good to pass up as propaganda fodder. Notice that the pro-abortionists never, never mention the hundreds of women who have died of "safe" and legal abortions. Their memories must be buried with their bodies, because they are bad for the image of the pro-abortion movement].
"You — a mother who dearly loved the children you already had but who knew that one more baby would stretch your family's and your own resources to a point where grim determination becomes desperation.
"You — still recovering from the battering you got when they jumped you, tearing your self-respect from your clothes, laughing at your terror as they took their turn; you still saw their faces in nightmares.
"And you — little more than a child yourself except that your body could conceive the seed of a troubled parent [NOTE: Once again, the pro-abortionists only mention the 'hard cases.' How about the unmarried college girl who loves to sleep around, or who forgets her pill, or who just doesn't want a baby because she's having too much fun? These are much more typical abortion cases. But, once again, they are ignored because they would be bad for the image of the pro-abortion movement — which is always the paramount concern].
"You were her mother.
"You were his grandmother.
"You were my sister.
"I want never to forget you, any of you.
"I want to think of you only with kindness and love.
Reflections on Readings
Bread Blessing
"We gather today as we will gather on Sunday to link arms, to support each other and to sustain each other. As on Sunday, today we strengthen and nourish each other for the struggle.
"Bread, as sustenance, symbolizes the prochoice community. Bread is food for the journey, the staff of life. Common, ordinary, daily, bread is food for all people. ...
"We bless aa variety of breads today to represent the diversity and harmony of our global prochoice community. Let us fill our table with these breads. ...
"Let us pray in each of our hearts a blessing for this bread as we break it and eat it together. ...
Closing: "A Litany of Challenge," by Diann Neu.
"Filled with the fullness of this day, with the stories of our sisters, with the bread of our community. ... Let us go forth ...
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To stand, sit, cry, pray with women making reproductive choices, especially the difficult choice for abortion.
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To speak to legislators, family members, and friends of our support for women's decisions.
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To challenge our churches, synagogues, and holy congregations to affirm women as moral agents.
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To encourage ministers, rabbis, priests and counselors to counsel women on free choice.
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To the city centers and country corners to tell women that all of their choices, including their choice for abortion, are holy and healthy.
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In the name of the holy one, God of our mothers and God/ess of our fathers, to bring about justice.
Song: "Be Not Afraid."
Lighting of Candles"
"Neither statistics nor records exist to document the occurrence of gender selection abortions in the United States. The idea of gender selection abortions is a myth."
"All who discuss abortion rights must be held accountable for their words. To mislead and manipulate the public is dishonest. There is no room for dishonesty in the sensitive discussion of abortion."
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'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights (RCAR). Propaganda pamphlet entitled "Words of Choice." 1991, Washington, D.C., pages 2 and 4.
"A mere 0.01 percent of all abortions, only about 100-200 procedures, are performed each year after 24 weeks of pregnancy."
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'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights. "Words of Choice." 24-page propaganda booklet, 1991, Washington, D.C., page 5.
"Struggling to find a truly pro-faith, pro-choice candidate? Pro-Faith, Pro-Family, Pro-Choice: A Religious, Pro-Choice Voters' Guide lists the question that must be asked of each political candidate — whether for local school board or national Congress. Distribute it in churches, candidate forums, to local media, wherever people assemble.
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
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RCRC advertisement in Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Autumn 1994 [Volume XV, Number 3], page 22.
"An article by William Saletan notes "the contradiction between their beliefs bout the sanctity of life and the Christian right's conspicuous silence about the tobacco industry. ... The tobacco issue clearly tears to shreds the white sheet of morality and other claims by the Christian Coalition, of defending "life.""
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'Reverend' John M. Swomley of the 'Religious' Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC). "Tobacco and Money!: Where is Vatican Dogma and Morality in Tobacco Alliance?" The Human Quest, July-August 1996, page 19.
"We must give up the idea that we can cling to some moral certainty."
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Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, former President of the 'Religious' Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), quoted in "Church Groups Lobby for the Destruction of Unborn." American Family Association Journal, January 1997, page 9.
"You can't be pro-religious without being prochoice, because the whole Bible speaks about choice and speaks about free moral agency [NOTE: Perhaps he is looking at a different Bible].
"He [Veazey] asserts that "raising up a woman's right to choose" must be balanced by a recognition of the sacredness of life [NOTE: It is never balanced. For all pro-aborts, especially the so-called 'religious' ones, the woman's right to choose always outweighs and trumps the sacredness of preborn human life].
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Adele M. Stan. "A Healing Kind of Thing: The Reverend Carlton W. Veazey Talks About His Work With the Black Religious Community on Sexuality and Reproductive Health." Conscience, Spring 1997 [Volume XVIII, Number 1], pages 19 to 21 [NOTE: Not surprisingly, Veazey is the director of the pro-abortion front group 'Religious' Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC)].
"What we need to be talking about is reality-based, age-appropriate sex education and safe and affordable contraception. We need to be talking about welfare and childcare and violence at home, on the streets, in our families. We need to be looking for new ways to solve our problems, not new ways to punish victims and the people who care for them. ... There will still be kids who can't talk to their parents, and there will still be kids who can and should talk to their parents ... kids who should, but they won't. Is that a bad idea? Is that bad judgment? Absolutely. ... But teenagers have been known to exercise bad judgment — it's what they do — and there is no law any of us can pass that will stop that from happening."
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Episcopalian 'priest' Katherine Hancock Ragsdale (former President of the 'Religious' Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC)), who has dedicated herself to transporting minors to states that perform abortions without parental consent, quoted in Bill Fancher. "Episcopalian Priest Resolute on Helping Minors Get Abortions." AgapePress, September 19, 2001 [NOTE: Ragsdale is upset over the latest effort to get the Child Custody Protection Act into law — legislation she is fighting because it would criminalize what she does. She says that is why people like herself are needed. She vows to continue to help minor get abortions, a job she says is "God's calling"].
"Like other extremists who cloak themselves in religion, antiabortion zealots are certain God wants them to terrorize and even kill for their beliefs. Tragically, America is now feeling the kind of fear abortion providers and women have long known. Terrorism in any form has no place in a nation that values tolerance, pluralism and individual conscience. ... [those who attack abortion facilities] blaspheme the very religions they claim to represent."
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Carlton Veazey, President of the 'Religious' Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), in a paid advertisement entitled "Bombs, Bullets and Anthrax," in the November 14, 2001 issue of The Hill and the November 15, 2001 issue of Roll Call, two political newspapers geared toward members of Congress, their staffs and other political and media elite). Also quoted in "Advertisment Compares Pro-Life Advocates to Terrorists." Steven Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet, November 14, 2001.
"The Boston Globe exists in a certain atmosphere, and they have lots of constituencies. They're trying to discern what is right and fair, but I think they are missing the bigger picture. It's tragic that anybody would give any credence to this nonsense about women walking in with great big bellies and saying they've changed their mind. No way. It doesn't happen. ... His [Douglas Johnson's] group [NRLC] has hammered away at this, and their purpose is not to clarify but to confuse. If they were trying to clarify things, the Supreme Court would not have found [Nebraska's partial birth abortion] law unconstitutional in 2000."
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Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice spokeswoman Marjorie Signer, quoted in Robert B. Bluey. "Pro-Lifers Push Boston Globe to Change Policy on Abortion Stories." Catholic News Service, June 16, 2003 [NOTE: As background, Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, wrote to the Boston Globe about its March 14, 2003 story that stated, without citations, that "late-term" abortions are the result of "fetal abnormalities" or "medical conditions threatening a woman." Ombudsman Christine Chinlund responded to Johnson on June 4 by saying that "I do believe the Globe should use the phrase 'partial birth abortion' because that is how the legislation is known. ... Under those guidelines, the Globe would not say or imply that the procedure known as partial birth abortion is used only when medically necessary — thus recognizing that it is also used by healthy women who carry a healthy fetus. I also believe that any mention of the bill's lack of an exemption for the health of the mother should be accompanied by a mention of the exemption that does exist to protect the life of the mother." Naturally, when the United States Supreme Court found the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act constitutional in 2007, Signer and the RCRC had no comment other than to condemn it in very general terms].
"[We] oppose efforts to enact into secular law one particular religious doctrine on abortion or the beginning of personhood. [We] oppose legislation which fails to affirm women as moral decision makers or limits the exercise of moral choices." [We] distribute accurate information on the medical, social, legal, moral and religious factors underlying the abortion issue."
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Undated 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights (RCAR, now RCRC) propaganda flyer entitled "Are You Pro-Life? ... So Are We."
"You've probably seen the garish brochures that anti-choice organizations hand out. The pictures in those brochures are designed to shock you — and they do! They are designed to keep you from thinking seriously about the real issue. Sadly, they often do. THE REAL ISSUE IS FREEDOM!"
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Undated 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights (RCAR, now RCRC) propaganda flyer entitled "RCAR Has No Pictures in This Brochure. You Can't Take a Picture of Freedom."
"Anti-abortionists claim that fetal personhood is a biological fact rather than a theological perspective. However, the fetus is human only in the sense that any part of a human body is human: Every cell carries the full genetic code (a severed hand is genetically human, as well, but we do not call it a person). ... six hundred million sperm are "aborted" in every masturbation or wet dream. ... Can we, dare we, force another human being into making such a Christlike sacrifice?" [carrying an "unwanted" child to term].
"Even if we were to concede the highly controversial and recent supposition that an embryo is a human person from the moment of conception, we would still be looking at only one very important value that has to be weighed against many other very important values, such as the quality of life that the unborn could look forward to after birth; the probable impact of that birth on the welfare of the already existing family; the mental health, wellbeing, and conscience of the potential mother; and the impact on society of laws that repress obedience to the dictates of conscience and remove a woman's control over her own destiny."
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Virginia Ramey Mollenkott. "Respecting the Moral Agency of Women." Propaganda issued as an undated "Educational Pamphlet" by the 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights (RCAR, now RCRC).
"RCAR views it as an insult to black women to make the generalized claim that abortions performed on black women are genocide."
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Helen I. Howe. Undated pamphlet entitled "Abortion and the Holocaust: Twisting the Language." 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights, 100 Maryland Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002, telephone: (202) 543-7032. 1987, 24 pages, $1.50.
Remnick, David (Washington Post)
"There is very little in the press accounts to suggest that he is, above all, a sophisticated propagandist, an avatar of the politics of meanness and envy. ... Limbaugh is defending the successful against the impudent demands of the poor; by making all that funny, he gives the comfortable a way to think that greed and a cold-hearted wit comprise a cohesive ideology. ... his style is pure demagoguery. Just as Reagan talked of welfare queens in Cadillacs, Limbaugh seizes on the absurd detail, gives it an absurdist twist of his own, and sends it out into the world under the guise of analysis and principle. ... It is not enough for him to oppose liberalism. He must, like all demagogues, scare his listeners, get them to believe in conspiracy, rumor. ... Like Reagan, Limbaugh is neither curious nor brave; he would rather tell his audiences fairy tales than have them face the world; he would rather sneer at the weak than trouble the strong."
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Former Washington Post reporter David Remnick in the Post's Outlook section, February 20, 1994.
Rene Guyon Society (organized child molesters)
"HOMOSEXUALITY (Anal Copulation, PC 286).
We Suggest: At age 4, and sometimes sooner, both male and female children want, can easily hold after massage, and will be allowed to have a teenager or older male's condom-covered penis in their anus. Tiny children will be required to wear a small "finger stall" or "finger cot" (obtainable from a drug store) condom from age 4 or any earlier age that they start penetrating male and female anuses. 99% of the day there is no fecal matter in the anus. No enema is required.
Reasons: Makes child aware of anal venereal disease and its prevention. [Anal copulation is] part of the natural progress of development to heterosexuality.
ORAL COPULATION (PC 288a).
We Suggest: At age 4, and sometimes sooner, both male and female children want, can easily hold, and will be allowed to have a tiny child, teenager, or older male's penis in their mouth. This will bring an end to thumbsucking. The child will at last get valuable hormones that appear in the mature male's ejaculate that have been denied children in the past. Very young, teenage and adult females will be allowed to provide sexual satisfaction with their mouths and tongues to the penis and clitoris of young children.
Reasons: Trains for heterosexuality. No data exists showing that any harm is done. [Oral copulation is] part of the natural progress of development to heterosexuality.
HETEROSEXUALITY (Penis-Vagina Copulation (PC 261.1)).
We Suggest: At age 10, 11, or 12, females want, can easily hold, and will be allowed to have a teenager or older male's condom-covered penis in their vagina. From the earliest age of desire, a very young female will be allowed to have a tiny male's penis in her vagina if the penis is covered with a "finger stall" or "finger cot" (obtainable from a drug store). At all ages prior to age 18 for the female, the female is required to have vaginal foam inserted before penetration of the covered penis.
Reasons: Prevents venereal disease and pregnancy. Older person passes on tender, loving mannerisms. Lack of premarital sex leads to divorce, crime, and suicide.
MASTURBATION OF CHILD (PC 288 & PC 288.1).
We Suggest: No restrictions will be on the masturbation of a child so that such enjoyment will be provided by family, friends, or neighbors so that the child will no longer seek out strangers for this satisfaction. Self-masturbation, from crib age on, not to be discouraged.
Reasons: Parents and nonparents help a child toward good mental health by masturbating it or encouraging it to masturbate. Lack of premarital sex leads to divorce, crime, and suicide.
NUDITY ALONE WITH NO SEXUAL ACTIONS.
We Suggest: No restrictions; thus freeing Law Enforcement to tackle disease-spreading and unwanted-pregnancy activity and photos. Almost all American children have seen an erect male penis and an adult spread-eagle vagina or pictures thereof" [emphasis in original].
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Rene Guyon Society promotional/information package distributed in Beverly Hills, California, on March 20, 1981. Also reprinted in Father Enrique T. Rueda. The Homosexual Network: Private Lives & Public Policy. 1982: Old Greenwich, Connecticut; Devin Adair Publishers, pages 178 and 179.
Reno, Janet (Attorney General of the United States, 1992-2000)
"A cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools for their children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the Second Amendment; and who distrusts big government. Any of these may qualify a person as a "cultist," but certainly more than one of these would cause us to look at this person as a threat, and his family as being in a risk situation that qualified for government interference."
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Janet Reno, during her June 26, 1994 interview on "60 Minutes" [NOTE: Liberals often complain that this quote is fabricated, but Dr. Thomas Fleming, Editor of Chronicles Magazine, obtained an original full transcripts of the above "60 Minutes" show and confirmed it].
Reproductive Rights Network of Boston (RRNB)
"The Reproductive Rights Network of Boston believes that it [the 'Prochoice' Amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution] dangerously narrows reproductive rights, and undermines the very movement we're trying to build, by limiting abortion rights to the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. ... This represents an alarming compromise of the basic feminist principle that abortion is fundamentally a woman's choice. ... Restrictions in late abortion also uphold a disturbing concept that has gotten play in the media and the legislature: that there are morally reprehensible abortions. ... Our priority now must be to expand the notion of reproductive rights and to strengthen our message. This is certainly not the time to voluntarily shrink our own demands."
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Reproductive Rights Network of Boston, addressing limitations on third-trimester abortions on viable preborn children. "R2N2 Opposes Coalition's Amendment." Sojourner: The Women's Forum, April 1990, page 8.
Revolutionary Communist Party of the USA (RCP-USA)
"The right to abortion will be guaranteed ... As far as the policy toward the family, it will be recognized for what it is: not some holy or sacred institution to be preserved for all time ... not only will the family be a secondary form for determining children's upbringing, but its influence in promoting conservatism among its members, especially the women and children, will be actively combatted. While the parents will still have significant responsibility for their children, this does not mean they are "theirs," and there will be struggle to prevent parents from imposing old values, and conservative, non-revolutionary thinking generally on the children."
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Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, New Programme, page 78, "The Proletariat, Upon Seizing Power, Will Immediately Take Up the Transformation of Society."
"Women must have the right to choose! No forced reproduction — no forced sterilization! Women are NOT incubators! Fetuses are NOT children! Abortion is NOT murder! Outlawing abortion was — and IS — a Nazi program! Break the chains! Unleash the fury of women as a mighty force for revolution!"
"Once in power, the Nazis made "motherhood" into an official honor and abortion became a symbol of degeneracy."
"The attacks on abortion must be answered with social upheaval. Our stand must be WHATEVER THEY RULE, WHATEVER THEY DO, NOT ONE WOMAN WILL BE DENIED THE RIGHT TO AN ABORTION ... Networks should be formed to assist in keeping abortions safe and available, especially as further restrictions come down."
"If abortion becomes illegal, incredible numbers of poor women, including many women of oppressed nationalities, will die horrible deaths ... there is a very racist side to the bourgeoisie's attacks on abortion. When women of color are denied control of their own reproduction, this contributes to the overall conditions of national oppression in this country ...
"If the people don't succeed in taking the OFFENSIVE and defeating this assault on women, hundreds of thousands of women will suffer mutilation and death from illegal abortions. Today some 200,000 women a year die in Third World countries — one woman every three minutes. And the anti-abortion policy of the U.S. is making the situation even worse."
"There are many different reasons why women get abortions. And they are all valid."
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"Women Are Not Incubators!: The Assault on Abortion Rights." Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States, Revolutionary Worker, November 6, 1989. Also distributed as a special reprint booklet, pages 7, 17, 18, 25 and 33 [emphasis in original].
"The whole system we live under is completely worthless, and no basic change for the better can come about until this system is overthrown."
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Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Quoted in the Revolutionary Communist Party Worker, July 10, 1989, page 2.
"There are "Christian Soldiers" on the loose. They assault women in front of health clinics. They claim to be the saviors of unborn babies. But they are really Christian Fascists — morality police with a whole program of oppression for women and children. Not only are they against a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy — they are against birth control and against sex for women who are not married. They claim that there is justification for their views in the Bible. But people who hate oppression would rise up against many things in the Bible. There are many laws and instructions and practices that even religious people consider oppressive and would never want to be enforced.
"Check out some of the rules and laws written in the Bible. If these things were put into practice, the world would be a cruel and horrible place. These quotations are ammunition to be used against those who pick up the Bible to keep women down. The Christian Fascist crusaders against abortion should be forced to say whether this is the kind of world they want and the kind of morality they want to impose on the people."
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Negative propaganda by the Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States in the Revolutionary Worker ("Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States"), October 30, 1989, page 13.
"WHY are we Revolutionary Communists so concerned about the abortion battle and why do we feel that everyone who hates oppression, not just women, must take up this question?
"BECAUSE if we don't struggle TODAY to bust up the chains which keep women down, we won't even get the chance to get started along a new road. We won't be able to have a revolution in the U.S., let alone have the RIGHT KIND of revolution [emphasis in original]."
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Quote from "Women Are Not Incubators!: The Assault on Abortion Rights." Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States, Revolutionary Worker, November 6, 1989. Also distributed as a special reprint booklet by the same name, pages 28 and 29.
Revolutionary Worker
"We refuse to comply with any law, regulation, or restriction of any kind on any woman's reproductive freedom to decide when or if to bear a child. We will do whatever is necessary to defy such laws, regulations, and restrictions, to encourage others to do so, and to build mass resistance against such restrictions."
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"Plan of Action for the Battle for Reproductive Rights," adopted at the Strategies for Mass Resistance National Conference at MIT on December 2-3, 1989, and printed on page 15 of the December 18, 1989 Revolutionary Worker.
"In 1925 Lu Hsun, a great revolutionary writer in China, wrote an essay about what the people's attitude should be toward the enemy. When they are in retreat, he said, we should show no mercy. He said, "Dogs should be pushed into the water, then soundly beaten. If they fall into the water themselves, there is no harm in beating them either ... The nature of a dog cannot be changed."
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Editorial in the October 30, 1989 issue of the Revolutionary Worker, describing how to deal with pro-life rescuers at abortion mills.
"Think about it: People routinely terminate "life" for what is seen as a greater good. We do this every time we eat ... In other words, we kill life to preserve and enrich other life ... From a social point of view, these people who want to forcibly take away a woman's right to abortion are nothing but vicious, rabid dogs ... An abortion kills and removes some living cells which are part of the woman's body."
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A.S.K. "Life Cannot, and Should Not, Always Be Preserved!" Revolutionary Worker ("Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States"), December 9, 1990, pages 8 to 11.
"Forcing women into childbirth is actually like rape — the violent assertion of male domination and male supremacist society over women. Women are supposedly naturally destined to be baby machines and incubators ... The whole question of the position and role of women is society is more and more acutely posing itself in today's extreme circumstances — this is a powderkeg in the U.S. today. It is not conceivable that all this will find any resolution other than in the most radical terms and through extremely violent means!"
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Revolutionary Worker ("Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States"), May 2, 1989 [NOTE: In this article, the author refers to the Webster case as Women v. Pig Patriarchs, and the "pig/rape" theme runs strong in the article. The five pro-life justices are portrayed as particularly ugly and vicious-looking pigs, and, not surprisingly, the Communists miss the fact that one of these five is a "Pig Matriarch:" Sandra Day O'Connor].
WOMEN MUST HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE —
NO FORCED REPRODUCTION!
"The Supreme Court could now put a legal stamp of approval on these violent [Operation Rescue] attacks on women ... Women who faced illegal abortions were brutalized and murdered, faced nightmarish, desperate, deadly choices and terror, lye, coat hangers and mutilation ... Banning abortion is like rape. Both constitute the forceful, violent assertion of male domination. Both represent the domination of male supremacist society over women at the level of forcefully and violently controlling women's bodies. Banning abortion means suppression by the force of law and the state. It is nothing more than institutionalized violence against women. And it means the further unleashing of attacks against women by fanatic "right-to-life" stormtroopers ... Absurd and vicious lies [by pro-lifers] must be ripped apart and exposed ... The effort to take away the right to abortion is a direct assault on women's right to fully participate in society, including especially the struggle to completely transform society. If the Supreme Court overturns or in any way undermines Roe v. Wade, it will give states legal permission to forcefully and violently assign women the role of incubators and breeders ... This spring, they [the Supreme Court] may decide to add brutal terror from yesterday onto the already intolerable horrors of today."
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"Life and Death Decisions." Revolutionary Worker ("Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States"), March 6, 1989 [NOTE: This article neatly sums up the Communist attitude towards the preborn. Strangely, the Supreme Court so lavishly praised by the Communists when it expands homosexual, pornography and abortion rights, is shown in an illustration accompanying this article as a particularly ugly pig dressed in judicial garb and holding a noose in its hoof (shaped like a coat hanger, of course). All emphasis in original].
"Taking up the battle to defend abortion is part of preparing the ground for revolution. We want to live in a different society. Where women are truly liberated and don't have to face day after day s— from a rabid woman-hating system."
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Revolutionary Worker, ("Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States"), July 10, 1989.
Reynolds, Barbara (USA Today)
"On the road I travel to the mall in Wheaton, Maryland, two white men severely beat two black women Tuesday. One was doused with lighter fluid, and her attacker tried to set her afire. Both men cursed the women for being black. I couldn't help but shudder: That could have been me. This heinous act happened only hours after Pat Buchanan voters gave him 30 percent of the vote in the Maryland GOP presidential primary."
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USA Today columnist and former "Inquiry" page Editor Barbara Reynolds, USA Today, March 6, 1992.
"Mandela leaves as a principled man, with all but the dullards understanding why he would embrace the Palestinians, whose children are being killed and family homes bulldozed in Israel just as black families' are in Soweto. ... Moreover, if Mandela is a terrorist — as conservatives have called him — he would fit right in with U.S. patriots such as George Washington, Patrick Henry, Nat Turner, and Harriet Tubman. If it had not been for those terrorists, what would we have to wave our flags about on the Fourth of July?"
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USA Today Inquiry Editor Barbara Reynolds, June 29, 1990.
"It may sound bigoted; well, this is a bigoted world and why can't black people be allowed a little Archie Bunker mentality? ... Here's a man [Thomas] who's going to decide crucial issues for the country and he has already said no to blacks; he has already said if he can't paint himself white he'll think white and marry a white woman."
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USA Today "Inquiry" Editor Barbara Reynolds in The Washington Post, September 10, 1991.
"Politicians led a victory parade of ga-ga worship, with people hugging tanks that have vacuumed billions from social programs. The Supreme Court ordered family planning centers to help keep women barefoot and pregnant by not telling poor women about abortion, while Congress refuses to appropriate enough funds to feed poor children. And the President says his big-deal domestic programs are highways and executions. Meanwhile, the S&L and banking fiascos flash around the country Willie Horton-style, raping not only women but men and children yet unborn."
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USA Today "Inquiry" Editor Barbara Reynolds, June 14, 1991.
"How can you who protest abortion be so certain that we aren't swimming toward a fate worse than death? Is homicide in the womb, swift and merciful, not better than the slow death that lies ahead for some of us once our lives begin? ... Better to die now, before we can feel real pain, than to enter a world where life is so painful it's criminal to be born."
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USA Today "Inquiry" Editor Barbara Reynolds, August 16, 1991.
Rhoden, Nancy K.
"The compromise forged in Roe v. Wade was, and can remain, an acceptable one. But it can do so only if the Court recognizes, when it becomes necessary, the limited ethical relevance of fetal viability."
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Nancy K. Rhoden. "Late Abortion and Technological Advances in Fetal Viability — Some Legal Considerations." Family Planning Perspectives, July/August 1985, pages 160 and 161.
Rice, Califia
"The fact that many of the founders of the gay-liberation movement were (and are) boy-lovers has well-nigh disappeared from the official history of our rebellion. The very term "boy-lover" is rarely heard in gay discourse. True, there have always been political disagreements within our community about the age of consent and cross-generational relationships. But the decade of FBI harassment suffered by [NAMBLA] probably has more to do with the mainstream gay movement's drawing away from this issue. It is a serious and terrifying thing to confront such a powerful institution. So perhaps it was inevitable that the Stonewall 25 organizing committee [formed to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the "Stonewall Inn" riots in New York City, viewed by homosexual activists as spawning the modern "gay rights" movement] would vote to exclude all organizations advocating the repeal of age-of-consent laws from its June 26, 1994, march. A group called the Spirit of Stonewall (SOS) formed to protest this ban, and has invited NAMBLA to march with them. I was proud to be among the people who signed SOS's petition for inclusion of all gay organizations in the Stonewall anniversary celebration."
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Califia Rice. Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex [Cleis Press, 1994]. Quoted in Peter LaBarbera. "Penn State Event Includes Pro-NAMBLA Writer: Campus Event Unites Radical Feminism, Homosexuality and Gender Extremism." Article downloaded from the Culture & Family Web site at http://cultureandfamily.org/ on May 12, 2002 [NOTE: Rice is the author of Macho Sluts (distributed by Allyson Publications), a collection of sadomasochistic erotic fictional short stories. One story, one titled "Finishing School," is about a lesbian mother who submits her 13-year-old daughter to sadistic homosexual torture. In the story, the mother whips the daughter until she bleeds. Among other works written or edited by Rice are: Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism; Doing It for Daddy: Short and Sexy Fiction About a Very Forbidden Fantasy; and Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality. Rice was a keynote speaker at the "Conference on Women's Health and Wellness," held March 22-24, 2002 on the Pennsylvania State College campus. Under the former name Pat Califia, she was a female homosexual sex radical and writer who recently underwent transsexual surgery in her bizarre quest to identify as a man].
"Boy-lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers are the only people offering a hand to help young women and men cross the difficult terrain between straight society and the gay community. They are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their stale morality onto the young people in their custody. Instead of condemning pedophiles for their involvement with lesbian and gay youth, we should be supporting them."
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Califia Rice in an October 1980 interview with the homosexual magazine The Advocate. Peter LaBarbera. "Penn State Event Includes Pro-NAMBLA Writer: Campus Event Unites Radical Feminism, Homosexuality and Gender Extremism." Article downloaded from the Culture & Family Web site at http://cultureandfamily.org/ on May 12, 2002 [NOTE: Rice is the author of Macho Sluts (distributed by Allyson Publications), a collection of sadomasochistic erotic fictional short stories. One story, one titled "Finishing School," is about a lesbian mother who submits her 13-year-old daughter to sadistic homosexual torture. In the story, the mother whips the daughter until she bleeds. Among other works written or edited by Rice are: Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism; Doing It for Daddy: Short and Sexy Fiction About a Very Forbidden Fantasy; and Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality. Rice was a keynote speaker at the "Conference on Women's Health and Wellness," held March 22-24, 2002 on the Pennsylvania State College campus. Under the former name Pat Califia, she was a female homosexual sex radical and writer who recently underwent transsexual surgery in her bizarre quest to identify as a man].
Rich, Adrienne
"In a world of genuine equality, where men are non-oppressive and nurturing, everyone would be bisexual. ... Heterosexuality, like motherhood, needs to be recognized and studied as a political institution."
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Adrienne Rich. "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience." In Bloody Bread and Selected Prose 1979-85 [New York City: W.W. Norton & Co.], 1986, pages 34 and 35. Also in Dale O'Leary. The Gender Agenda: Redefining Equality [Lafayette, Louisiana: Vital Issues Press], 1997, page 90.
Rich, Frank (New York Times)
"To his fans, David Brock, the writer who ruined the Clintons' Christmas, is a hard-hitting investigative reporter. To everyone else, he is a smear artist with a right-wing agenda. But a reading of Mr. Brock's oeuvre in the conservative journal The American Spectator suggests that his motives are at least as twisted as his facts. It's women, not liberals, who really get him going. The slightest sighting of female sexuality whips him into a frenzy of misogynist zeal. All women are the same to Mr. Brock: Terrifying, gutter-tongued sexual omnivores."
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New York Times columnist Frank Rich, January 6, 1994.
Richards, Shari (abortion mill worker)
"In fact many women will come to me considering abortion, and I have been personally told that I am to turn the monitor away from her view so that seeing her baby jump around on the screen does not influence her choice."
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Abortion mill worker Shari Richards on "The John Ankerburg Show," March 7, 1990.
Riddiough, Christine
"Gay/lesbian culture can also be looked on as a subversive force that can challenge the hegemonic nature of the idea of the family. It can, however, be done in a way that people do not feel is in opposition to the family per se; a simple "smash the family" slogan is seen as a threat not so much to the ruling class as to people in the working class who often rely on family ties to maintain security and stability in their lives. In order for the subversive nature of gay culture to be used effectively, we have to be able to present alternative ways of looking at human relationships."
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Christine Riddiough. "Socialism, Feminism and Gay/Lesbian Liberation." In Lydia Sargent [editor]. Women and Revolution [Boston: South End Press], 1981, page 87.
Riddle, Dorothy (psychologist)
"In a clinical sense, homophobia is defined as an intense, irrational fear of same-gender relationships, which becomes overwhelming to the person. Below are four negative (homophobic) levels and four positive levels of attitudes toward lesbian and gay relationships and people. This scale was developed by Dr. Dorothy Riddle, a psychologist from Tucson, AS (from Tackling Gay Issues in School)."
HOMOPHOBIC ATTITUDE LEVELS
Repulsion: Homosexuality is a "crime against nature." Lesbians and gay males are sick, crazy, immoral, sinful, wicked, and so forth. Anything is justified to change them: prison, hospitalization, negative behavior therapy, electroshock therapy, and so forth.
Pity: Heterosexual chauvinism. Heterosexuality is more mature and certainly to be preferred. Any possibility of "becoming straight" should be reinforced, and those who seem to be born "that way" should be pitied, "the poor dears."
Tolerance: Homosexuality is just a phase of adolescent development that many people go through and most people "grow out of." This, lesbians/gays are less mature than "straights" and should be treated with the protectiveness and indulgence one uses with a child. Lesbians/gays should not be given positions of authority because they are still working through their adolescent behavior.
Acceptance: Still implies there is something to accept. Characterized by such statements as "You're not a lesbian to me, you're a person!" or "What you do in bed is your own business," or "That's fine with me as long as you don't flaunt it!"
POSITIVE ATTITUDE LEVELS
Support: The basic American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) position. Work to safeguard the rights of lesbians and gays. People at this level may be uncomfortable themselves, but they are aware of the homophobic climate and the irrational unfairness.
Admiration: Acknowledges that being lesbian/gay in our society takes strength. People at this level are willing to truly examine their homophobic attitudes, values, and behaviors.
Appreciation: Value the diversity of people and see lesbians/gays as a valid part of that diversity. These people are willing to combat homophobia in themselves and others.
Nurturance: Assumes that lesbian and gay people are indispensable in our society. They view lesbians/gays with genuine affection and delight, and are willing to be allies and advocates."
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The "Riddle Homophobia Scale" developed by Tucson psychologist Dorothy Riddle and published in her book Tackling Gay Issues in School. SIECUS Report, April/May 2001 [Volume 29, Number 4], page 34. Sexuality Information and Educational Council of the United States [NOTE: Notice first of all how anti-lifers set up a category that does not really exist: Repulsion. How many people do you personally know who want to jail homosexuals or subject them to electroshock therapy just because they are homosexuals? Notice also how the scale does not use the word "homophilic," the natural opposite of "homophobic." Note also that the ACLU's total and fanatical support of homosexuality is rated merely lukewarm in Riddle's scale].
Rider, William (former Assistant Secretary of Commerce)
During the Kennedy administration, the Democratic National Committee used the Fairness Doctrine to force conservative radio shows to give equal time to administration officials. Bill Rider, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, said that "Our massive strategy was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass rightwing broadcasters and hope that the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too costly to continue."
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As described in Virginia I. Postrel, editor of Reason Magazine. "Political Static Ahead for Lively, Unfettered Talk Radio." The Oregonian [Portland, Oregon], August 31, 1993, page B7 [NOTE: The Federal Communications Commission abolished the Fairness Doctrine in August of 1987, after 42 years].
Riegel, Dave
"I have been principal moderator on an Internet site devoted to examining these issues for two years, and was active on another similar site for a year before that. It became obvious very early on that the men — and a few boys — who participate in these sites are not the stereotypical monsters that the media portrays. They are sincere, concerned, loving human beings who simply have — and were probably born with — a sexual orientation that is neither understood nor accepted by most others. The condemnation and reprehension these boys and men are dealt by society are primarily the result of misinformation that has become institutionalized over time by those who are in positions to deceive and mislead public thinking and policy."
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"About the Author" (self-description by Dave Riegel, the author of the book Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers, published by SafeHaven Foundation Press. This description was posted on Amazon.com, the world's largest on-line bookseller, and was downloaded on June 2, 2000.
Riley, Michael (Time Magazine)
"Elizabeth, his wife of 56 years, applauds him as a good family man. Indeed, how can anyone think ill of Hall when he beams so about cooking pancakes for his grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, or shares his secret for making tasty beef stew (It's the apples)!"
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Time Magazine reporter Michael Riley, in a September 9, 1991 profile of Communist Party USA leader Gus Hall.
Ritter, Gretchen (Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas)
"[Stay-at-home motherhood] denies men the chance to be involved fathers. ... Women who stay at home lose a chance to contribute as professionals and community activists. ... Full-time mothering is also bad for children. It teaches them that the world is divided by gender. ... The new stay-at-home motherhood movement parallels the movement to create the 'perfect' child. It's not just that mothers are home with their children; they are engaged with their children constantly so they will 'develop' properly. Many middle-class parents demand too much of their children. ... The stay-at-home mother movement is bad for society. It tells employers that women who marry and have children are at risk of withdrawing from their careers. ... The more stay-at-home mothers there are, the more schools and libraries will neglect the needs of working parents, and the more professional mothers, single mothers, working-class mothers, and lesbian mothers will feel judged."
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Gretchen Ritter, Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas. "The Messages We Send When Moms Stay Home." Austin American-Statesman, July 6, 2004. Also quoted in "Perspective from Another Planet: A Strange Take on Stay-at-Home Moms." BreakPoint with Charles Colson, July 27, 2004 [NOTE: There are hundreds of "women's studies" programs in colleges and universities all over North America. In these programs, students are propagandized with empty-headed stupidity like this, silly personal opinions presented as settled fact. No wonder so many college graduates can't think properly!].
Rivera, Carla (Los Angeles Times)
"Like an ominous storm blown in from the East, the reality of welfare reform has descended with relentless and unsparin
