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Despite the pride and victory I felt for the Democratic party last night in bringing some level affordable health care to uninsured people in this country, I was almost sick to my stomach listening to political demagogues like Bart Stupak use their sexist, fascist agenda to try to block progress. Every time right wing forces (including Stupak, a Democrat) can’t get their way politically on a piece of legislation, they use abortion as their ax to try to kill it.
I don’t know anything about the personal background of Stupak, but I‘d willing to bet that if a journalist did the hard research, that this man has never spent a day in his adult life, alone, taking care of children. I bet he’s never visited countless mothers who had one or more babies they couldn’t afford to properly raise. I bet he’s never spent any time in orphanages in his own state to shed light on the plight of motherless and fatherless children. I bet he has not even once developed legislation that would provide government supported universal child care for every child born to a single mother, or to jobless parents. Hell no, I bet he hasn’t done any of these things. And if the Democrats would next call for government-supported child care, Stupak and other women haters would still somehow use anti-abortion arguments to kill such legislation. So I say let’s expose their lies and sexism for what it is. Call for universal child care in this country. See how “pro-lifers” will react then.What was done in our name, by a corrupt, thuggish Republican war machine: March 20, 2003.
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