I get to meet with the head of Washington state NARAL!

[geniph]

I suspect it's because of the amount I spent at last year's fundraiser auction (note: never go to a live auction, give them your credit card number ahead of time, and then drink too much wine at a tableful of young political types who squeal with excitement every time you drunkenly wave your auction card in the air). She probably thinks I actually have money, hahaha!

Anyway, I'm having brunch with her a week from Saturday. I'm excited about the opportunity to give my input about the state of the pro-choice movement in Washington and nationwide, and possibly feel her out about board positions that might come open in the near future. I intend to bring Cristina Page's book, How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America, because I think Page is the only person really making the points that we need to be hammering home - the "pro-life" movement is no such thing, and they want your birth control pills. Some of them will even admit openly that the main problem with the South Dakota abortion ban is that it didn't go after contraceptives too.

Never kid yourself that the two are linked - the very basis for Roe v. Wade is the right to privacy established in Griswold v. Connecticut, the case that established the right for a married couple to obtain birth control. If Roe falls, then the foundation for Griswold is gone as well, and the next thing you know, pharmacists will not only be refusing to fill Plan B prescriptions, but they will pull condoms and foam off the shelves too. Think that's far-fetched? That is exactly what some in the forced birth movement are planning to do, long-term. Nothing keeps women under societal control as well as losing control of their own fertility.

[bliss_eternal]

1. This is fantastic news, geniph!

Thanks so much for sharing it with us! :hi: I'm excited for you and so happy you will be taking your book as a basis of discussion with her. I agree that it is important.

I tried to make the same argument (on-line) with an ignorant GOP, bushbot prior to the election. Yes, I know it's fruitless, but this one tried to make other memebers of that on-line community believe that she was one of the ones that was "pro-choice" and pro-women's rights. She was anything but. To be what she thought she was would have required the ability to think independently and critically. She did not. Any woman that watches and agrees with anything on fox news is NOT on our side.

Anyway, I've tried to point out to women that this fight was about them taking us all back and wanting to control reproductive choice and take away birth control pills. Most look at me like I'm out of my mind when I've brought this up, so I appreciate your sharing the title of a book that I can get that supports my "wild, insane theory." Lol! Now I will have something to refer others to when this discussion comes up.

[geniph]

3. Take a look at this column

by Susan Paynter of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/paynter/267630_paynt24.html

It's a great column and substantiates many of these points.

[ismnotwasm]

2. Awesome!

Very, very cool. I'd be excited too