On Friday Jan 23, 2004, I spoke at the 31st anniversary celebration of Roe v. Wade given by the Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona. The lunch at the Hilton at Squaw Peak had 600 in attendance and people were being turned away. Governor Napolitano appeared and gave the best speech I have ever heard by a politician–it lasted less than 30 seconds! I’ll vote for her anytime!
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Reproductive Rights Are for Men Too
In response to Robyn E. Blumner’s column, Reproductive Rights Are for Men Too, in the St. Petersburg Times of Jan 11, 2004 (http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/11/Columns/Reproductive_rights_a.shtml) I sent the following letter to the editor, as yet unpublished.
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The Dog that Didn’t Bark
Did you notice that the President did not mention the word “abortion” last night in the State of the Union Address (link in previous blog entry)? Or was I napping? Or maybe recovering from my appearance on The O’Reilly Factor a half hour earlier?
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The State of the Non-Sexual Union
The President in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening January 20, 2004 proposed a doubling of Federal funding for abstinence programs.
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Getting the ‘No’ out of North Carolina
Less than a week after the State of Minnesota released a report stating that its abstinence-only sex education program was not effective in preventing or delaying teenage sexual activity, the Wake County North Carolina school board forged ahead regardless and on January 6, 2004 approved by a 5-3 vote an abstinence-only sex education curriculum for the county’s schools. There are two possibilities: Wake County was either uninformed of the Minnesota report or it deliberately ignored it. “Just Say No” is now the law in Wake County schools.
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My Response to John DiStaso
Mr. DiStaso–thank you for your reply. I take it that we agree that under Roe the state may not ban abortions in the second trimester, it can only regulate them for maternal health reasons. Your column indicated otherwise.
I have also sent this to Lieberman’s staff.
Response from John DiStaso
My only comments are these:
Senator Lieberman and Roe
The year 2003 ended with a reporter allegedly misrepresenting a candidate’s stance on Roe v. Wade, and then both the candidate and the reporter compounding the alleged error by misrepresenting what Roe actually said. The former may have been the result of an error, or a misinterpretation of what the candidate meant, or a deliberate attempt to create a story where none existed. But the latter error by both the candidate and the reporter was sheer ineptitude. And both have gotten away with it, until now.
Alexander Sanger 