This week marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of my grandmother, Margaret Sanger. On speaking engagements around the country, the question I am most frequently asked is, “What would your grandmother think about the seemingly unending struggle over reproductive freedom?”
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Reproductive Rights
Bush Attacks Kerry on Abortion
No sooner did I make my previous post than the Bush campaign launched TV and radio ads attacking John Kerry’s record on teen access to birth control and abortion. The new ads state that “Kerry voted against parental notification for teenage abortions” and “voted to allow schools to hand out the ‘morning after pill’ without parents’ knowledge.” The ads continue: “He voted to take control away from parents by taking away their right to know. John Kerry has his priorities. The question is, are they yours?”
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Will Abortion Make a Difference in the 2004 Election?
John Kerry announced recently that “life begins at conception.” So?
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Polling off the Deep End
The anti-choice folks have come up with an amazing new strategy to win over the Democratic party. Having failed to change national polling numbers over the past quarter century on the abortion issue by their religious/moral arguments, they are now appealing to the self interest of the Democratic party: in short, their argument is that the Democrats are aborting themselves out of existence.
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Review in the Washington Post
Audio Interview on “Eye On Books”
March for Women’s Lives
The Sanger Family marched for women’s lives on April 25, 2004. I don’t recall that my grandmother ever staged a march for birth control. She often was marched to and from police stations, but she never staged a march on Washington.
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Op-Ed in the San Francisco Chronicle
My Op-Ed from yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle:
Senate is no protection for abortion rights
Bush could make a recess appointment to Supreme Court
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Recent Articles
From the Palm Beach Daily News:
Sanger: Pro-choice stance stale
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