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Prop 85 LOST!!! Come celebrate!
Let\s celebrate tonight! Come to Counterpulse to hear how we won Roe v Wade..and what we need to do in order to keep winning!
Sexual and Reproductive Freedom
1960s to Now
November 8, 2006 @ 8:oo pm
At Counterpulse 1310 Mission in San Francisco
With speakers
* Patricia Maginnis, founder of the Association to Repeal Abortion Laws
* Ruth Mahaney, co-founder of Midwest Abortion Counseling Service, and,
* Norma Gallegos, organizer with Bay Area Radical Women
Join Elizabeth Creely, organizer with Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights, in conversation with three women who represent the past, present and future of reproductive rights activism. As the assault on abortion rights continues, let�s take a look at where we�re from, and where we�re going.
How did we win our rights, protected our health and identify key concepts that produced laws that guarantee our rights to life and physical autonomy?
Join us at Nov. 8th, at 8 p.m. at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission (at 9th) in San Francisco and find out!
For more information, contact BACORR at bacorrinfo [at] riseup.net or call CounterPULSE at
Info: 415.626.2060
1960s to Now
November 8, 2006 @ 8:oo pm
At Counterpulse 1310 Mission in San Francisco
With speakers
* Patricia Maginnis, founder of the Association to Repeal Abortion Laws
* Ruth Mahaney, co-founder of Midwest Abortion Counseling Service, and,
* Norma Gallegos, organizer with Bay Area Radical Women
Join Elizabeth Creely, organizer with Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights, in conversation with three women who represent the past, present and future of reproductive rights activism. As the assault on abortion rights continues, let�s take a look at where we�re from, and where we�re going.
How did we win our rights, protected our health and identify key concepts that produced laws that guarantee our rights to life and physical autonomy?
Join us at Nov. 8th, at 8 p.m. at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission (at 9th) in San Francisco and find out!
For more information, contact BACORR at bacorrinfo [at] riseup.net or call CounterPULSE at
Info: 415.626.2060
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I agree with a womans right to do what she will with her own body. but the defeat of prop. 85 isn't a victory for a womans right to choose. but a loss for a parents right to raise their own children. those opposed to abortion rights have only one logical course and that is to illiminate the need for such choices by discouraging unwanted pregnancies, encouraging protection, and saafe sex practices. I beleive young women should be encouraged not to be sluts. and this proposition would have gone along ways toward encouraging responsible behaviour. I don't see any effort on the part of the pro choice crowd to support this viewpoint. it seems that the attitude is that as a welcome to womanhood a girl should be given a discount coupon for and abortion.
Prop 85 didn't encourage any kind of behavior. It did say that if a young woman doesn't get along with her parents, she can either spend days and days in the courts, or (implied) she can get a back-alley abortion.
The Bush administration has done a lot to undermine sex education in the schools, particularly be funding abstinence-only "sex" ed. However: http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/07/18327308.php "critics point out that studies have failed to show that abstinence-only education delays sex or lowers rates of teen pregnancy." So tell us again, how would Prop 85 have discouraged young women from having sex or seeking abortions? They need to know about CONTRACEPTION. See Planned Parenthood for more info.
If you focus on abstinence, you deny the fact that humans are sexual beings, and that teenagers are, due to their hormones, sex-obsessed.
The Bush administration has done a lot to undermine sex education in the schools, particularly be funding abstinence-only "sex" ed. However: http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/07/18327308.php "critics point out that studies have failed to show that abstinence-only education delays sex or lowers rates of teen pregnancy." So tell us again, how would Prop 85 have discouraged young women from having sex or seeking abortions? They need to know about CONTRACEPTION. See Planned Parenthood for more info.
If you focus on abstinence, you deny the fact that humans are sexual beings, and that teenagers are, due to their hormones, sex-obsessed.
The evidence supports the fact that minors overwhelmingly DO inform/include their parents in abortion decision, and when they don't--it's for very good reason.
Plus this was a back door anti-choice measure that had some questionable definition of "life".
Plus this was a back door anti-choice measure that had some questionable definition of "life".
"The evidence supports the fact that minors overwhelmingly DO inform/include their parents in abortion decision, and when they don't--it's for very good reason.
Plus this was a back door anti-choice measure that had some questionable definition of "life"."
Yes, when they do it is for a good reason, and the kids might not be in a mental state to be able to get thru the courts, which is why it is so great that prop 85 failed.
could you cite the evidence, and quote the questionable definition of life? I'm pretty sure that the latter was in 2005's Prop 73, not 2006's Prop 85.
Plus this was a back door anti-choice measure that had some questionable definition of "life"."
Yes, when they do it is for a good reason, and the kids might not be in a mental state to be able to get thru the courts, which is why it is so great that prop 85 failed.
could you cite the evidence, and quote the questionable definition of life? I'm pretty sure that the latter was in 2005's Prop 73, not 2006's Prop 85.
It isn't "loss for parents to raise their own children." If they are GOOD parents who COMMUNICATE with their children and EDUCATE them about making good choices, this prop won't affect them at all.
Certainly it's not a word that could ever adequately describe a teens sexuality. You're a thug.
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