WOW! “Those people” were just waiting with their banners, weren’t they! Such idealism here, also —. Amazing. I have spent years working with familes, and that includes women, abandoned, abused, professional, in need, caring, fearful, ignored, and I have never seen those who are so quick to judge step up and show how they have adopted or fostered even one of the thousands of infants, and children (and teens) without a home, or who needed support, or protection, much less helped our efforts to find expectant mothers with housing, education, peri-natal care, clothing, or food (when they try to be healthy, maintain their lives, and make sensible decision “for now”). Until you are ready to step up to the “plate” with support, and time, please let people live their lives. You cannot change one thing. Reproduction has been around for thousands of years. It’s the longest clinical trial in history. Move on to more important things than judging women. “Unto thine own self be true.” PS: I have taken in women with their children, and cared for them. It’s not that hard to do - IF you care.

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Women, we won this battle over 30 years ago. Let’s move on and not give it so much press that it becomes the feminist issue- the only feminist issue. We have so many other women’s issues to fight and win for equality. WE WON A SPECIAL HARD FOUGHT VICTORY JAN. 9th ! We now have legistlation that needs to be signed by Obama allowing women time to discover unequal pay and then turn around and pursue legal correction when we are discriminated against ! We now have another Bush barrier removed that had been denying women access to our own courts. Mitch McConnelll voted against women being able to have a reasonable ltime span to discover unequal pay and file a lawsuit stating- we don’t need more lawsuits at this time. Is he saying it is okay to make it impossible for women to sue for unlawful discrimination levied against them because we have more important things to deal with in this country? Should we stop trials for bank robbers, murderers and other criminals and law breakers because we have a financial crisis? It is okay to break the law when it is against women is basically what he is saying because we don’t want to be bothered with their petty issues during this time of crisis. However, women are barely hanging on to the edge financially , being the poorest of the poor because of unequal pay and discrimination. If this country wants to stimulate the economy- let us enforce the laws that deny women equal and fair pay for their labor. The issue has been and still is the enforcement of equality laws for women - not that the laws do not exist. We have been denied access to trails when we are wronged. This fair pay law daling with the time statute FINALLY passed after being voted down several times! We all need to know our rights and when they are being denied to us and most importantly when we are being denied access to the courts, hence justice. Women are still treated as a separate distinct class of people forced to meet rediculously outlandish requirements even if we were allowed in court. We now can get into a court and have a trial. This is a time to celebrate because this is a step in the right direction. How this ever was upheld in the first place is mind boggling since it was so obviously impossible and rediculous and never should have occurred in the first place in a country that values all of its citizens. We are now becoming a country of equality for all. Women still have a long way to go. The courts are the only place these issues can be resolved and if women continued to be banned from suing for equality what other avenue would we have left to correct these wrongs? Women had been basically denied access to the courts to fight for their constiutional rights. The courst have now been opened back up to us. GREAT! Now 2 more things need to be done. The ludicrous standards to establish proof of unequal pay and glass ceilings and discrimination need to be revised by adults so enforcement of vilations can occur. For examply my CEO wrote a book ‘stating his discriminatory views and the court denied it as evidence to depose him for questions since it was not a sworn document. So women need office memos and conversations and published books to be sworn under oath as truth before they can gather any evidence of their being discriminated against? The second action needed is forthe corporations to get some fear of having to play by the rules. If they paid women equally and trreated women fairly we wouldn’t need to sue. Let’s clean up and kick out these greedy, corrupt old boy network CEOs. that are behind so much of the law breaking destruction in this country and the world. Not one single prosecution has been moving forward in the banking thug CEOs - how do we explain that? More regulationneeded? No the problem is with ENFORCEMENT - or lack of enforcement - of the existing laws and regulations we currently have to guide us. Celebrate, we have hope, now we must roll up our sleeves to make progress - the barriers have been removed and we need to take this opportunity to gain our equality on all fronts. .

Culture of responsibility is culture of life Star Parker - Syndicated Columnist - 1/26/2009 9:35:00 AM In these uncertain times, some things remain constant. One is the arrival each January 22 of tens of thousands of pro-life Americans to Washington, DC, to note the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision and to mourn. Forty-eight million American children, given the gift of life, but deprived of seeing the light of day, have been destroyed in the womb since that 22nd of January in 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion. So, again this year they came. Change really is not such a new idea in America. They have been coming to Washington seeking change now for 36 years. But apparently the change they want is not change that our new president can believe in. Unlike his predecessor, who annually addressed the shivering crowd, Mr. Obama declined their invitation to speak. However, he issued a brief press statement. But the statement was not about change but about the status quo, celebrating the 1973 decision. Maybe our first black president doesn’t know that, despite blacks being just 12 percent of the American population, black babies constitute 37 percent of all our aborted children. One of every two black pregnancies is aborted. In the words of my friend, the Rev. Clenard Childress, “the most dangerous place for an African American to be is in the womb of their African American mother.” According to Obama’s statement, Roe v. Wade was about “reproductive freedom” and a “woman’s right to choose” and our “daughters” having “the same rights…as our sons.” What responsibilities go with these “rights,” Mr. President? And do we have ultimate responsibilities? And if so, to whom? In his inaugural address, Mr. Obama appealed for “a new era of responsibility,” bemoaned “greed and irresponsibility” and “failure to make hard choices.” But, Mr. President, if you condone a culture that has no sense of awe and responsibility toward the greatest of all miracles and mysteries — life itself — how can you expect responsibility elsewhere? The president’s statement proposes to “reduce” abortions by expanding “access to affordable contraception, accurate health information, and preventative services.” But if there is no problem in destroying the unborn child, why is reducing abortions a goal? If it is okay to do once, why not 20 times? Or a million times a year, like now? And, sir, will you continue to force us taxpayers to pay for the “unintended” consequences of women exercising their “reproductive freedom”? Can it be accidental that along with the millions of abortions that followed the Roe v. Wade decision, the stability of American families spiraled downward, divorce rates increased, and out of wedlock birth rates skyrocketed to where today four of ten babies are born to unwed mothers? As Tom Sowell has pointed out, as late as 1970 most black children were raised in two parent families. By 1995 one third were. For those who claim that Christian conservatives care only about abortion and gay marriage and are indifferent to social issues such as poverty, know that they are all one and the same issue. The black poverty rate, which has been frozen at twice the national average for decades, is almost exclusively a phenomenon of single-parent homes. Black families with two married parents at home are on approximate economic par with white families. According to the most recent report on sexually transmitted diseases from the Centers for Disease Control, these diseases are increasing and spreading in our nation. And blacks account, depending on the disease, for between 50-70 percent of them. No, this is not about “reproductive freedom.” This about respect for life, for others, and a true culture of responsibility. What can be done? Understand that our crisis is one of values. Restore law that protects all life. And free at risk children from the tyranny of government schools where they are taught moral relativism. Allow these children the freedom to go to church schools. Meanwhile, Mr. President, we’ll see you again next January 22.