Bush Step Down banner looms over anti-Abortion crowd. Click below for report.
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Hundreds of pro-choice demonstrators confronted an anti-abortion “march for life” in San Francisco.
The
“Antis” were ecstatic and predicting the overturn of Roe v. Wade with
the nomination of Judge Alito to the Supreme Court. Alito refused in
his confirmation hearings to say the Roe was settled law. Writing in
1985 as a functionary in the Reagan Justice Department, Alito devised a
strategy to undercut Roe. Alito did NOT disavow the memo on this during
the hearings.
Promoted to the appeals court a few years later, Alito infamously fought to uphold the Pennsylvania
law that would have forced married women who sought abortions to notify
their husbands. Kate Michelman, the former head of NARAL, gave powerful
and moving testimony to the committee about what it meant for her, as a
mother of three children, to be forced to ask the husband who had
abandoned her for his permission to terminate her pregnancy.
The
majority of people in society support the right to abortion. Yet we
have are on the verge of this fundamental right being taken away. And
this is part of a bigger agenda of Bush and his regime. Secret
wiretaps, the breakdown of the separation of church and state, an
imperial presidency, endless war in the middle east, the legalization
of torture, attacks on science. Millions of people hate all this. The
anger is there. But it needs to be mobilized NOW.
The
political polarization in this country has to change, and change very
quickly. It is not enough to seethe, and it is definitely not enough to
just hope that the Democrats will take action, or even to pressure
them. Even if you believe in the Democrats, you have to recognize that
they will never do anything at all unless and until they fear that you,
and people like you, are “getting out of hand.” What do the Alito
hearings show, if not that?
If we want to turn this around we
need to urgently mobilizing others, and commit ourself, to the mass
political actions called on the occasion of Bush’s State of the Union
address–actions demanding that Bush step down and take his program
with him. In the Bay Area convergences are called for