I’m a pro-life, pro-contraception Feminist, which as I understand it is the same as Gov. Palin’s position. You might want to check out Feminists for Life, if you haven’t already. I am a member there, and I like what we’re working on: supporting the life choice, not dictating it.

I so love the sentiment here on this post that we can unite on so many women’s issues without being needlessly divided. I’m glad to see the changes in NOW’s approach. Yes, CHOICE is a HUGE issue.

But our common womanhood surpasses even that.

I know most of you support abortion rights. Where I agree with you is that we shouldn’t have government interferring with our bodies. We are sovreign over our own bodies! I guess that’s the libertarian in me. But I think we can also find common ground when babies are viable outside the womb, recognizing the tragedy of late-term abortion that is not to save the mother’s life or health.

I am a child of rape. My birth mother became pregnant when she was gang raped. Despite the abortion availability, she decided to have me anyway, and gave me up for adoption. So, my life is blessed (indeed I am here) because a woman made a CHOICE, and she CHOSE LIFE.

Providing support and encouragement for scared young women to CHOOSE LIFE or making that choice in your own life does not infringe on others’ rights. That’s where we women can UNITE.

Thank you!

I also agree with Kat in her suggestions on involving younger women in the struggle by whatever means possible. How can we instill pride and self-respect in the under 40 women in the country?

Any significant change has to cross generational barriers. I hate to give up on NOW, but the membership has gotten older and lost it’s passion for the cause. I would disagree with anyone who says that organization began as a one issue monolith. It began with energy and dedication to equality, but not too many years after the right to choice was established by the Supreme Court, it was under siege and still is today. Whether the threat is real or concocted by politicians as a wedge issue isn’t important since it has managed to divert attention from other goals.

The writing of Simone de Beauvior is completely ignored in Women’s Studies at most universities and yet her book, The Second Sex, illustrates the reality of a woman’s need to be essential while living in a society which considers her non-essential. She points out the ambiguity of being truly feminine as a stigma for professional women. To be willing to accept a lower social position denies us entry into the human race.

It is an unresolved paradox for many women. So which part of ourselves are we required to relinquish in order to be successful in a quest for equality? I would like to believe we will not give up either. Creative in many ways in the home and raising families, if we venture outside the home for fulfillment, we face obstacles which require us to give up part of our nature in order to achieve success.

I disagree with those who believe personal fulfillment is possible without a united effort to change the perceptions. That is why throughout history, human beings have banded together in a common cause.

YEEEESSSSS!!!!

It was the herd mentality that got us Obama and the ultimate herd existence – socialism. While like minds may agree and gravitate towards each other, the Tea Parties have already proven that a driving structure is not necessarily a must to express and come together.

We simply don’t need mommy organizations telling us what to think, what to be mad about, or where to spread our too often hard earned dollars.

That’s why the likes of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Helen Thomas, Carly Fiorina, Madeline Albright, and others scare the holy peewaddin’ out of the male structure.

Power from within is an unstoppable force for a woman.

Never mind she is somebody because of Bill Clinton. “Women Rule….” – what a joke. She was obviously for Obama.

I am very interested to hear about NOW’s new leadership and ‘turning the page’. I trust Lynette Long and am very eager to hear what she thinks about it. I was very involved with women’s rights, but never through NOW. I have such negative feelings about that organization that it would be nearly impossible for me to ever accept NOW much less be a member. They were always very divisive and believe me, left to NOW, we will continue going backwards instead of forward. NOW will never be able to accept pro-life women or women who believe (like Obama & Hillary) that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

May you and I and each of us continue to think again and to think for ourselves as we all continue to pay attention and to act in the face of the incessant dissembling of this Republic by Fraud Obama…his cronies…and his followers.

Group think must go…and I look forward here and in other places to see your thoughts and to share ideas with you and anyone else who has the courage and determination to pay attention
during these very serious and dangerous times in the history of our Republic!

Keep Thinking…Think Again…your thoughts
are most worthy of contemplation! Thank you for them! Forward!! Onward!! Persist!
Never Give up!