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Category Archives: Women
PA Senate Bill 3 vs. women’s rights
Can people of all views agree on some facts? No one looks forward to having an abortion; anyone who has had one doesn’t want to have another; and the national abortion rate declined by half between 1981 and 2014 (the … Continue reading
Women candidates and the two parties
On 9/8/14 the Daily Local News published a letter from me under the title “More women would be good for state and country.” Though I don’t doubt that that title is literally true, what I really said is that “a … Continue reading
Posted in PA politics, Women
Tagged 19th amendment, Chester County, PA House, PA Senate, US Congress, women candidates, women's suffrage
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Iron Jawed Angels, the women’s suffrage movement, and social change
Yesterday evening I was among 50+ people who saw the 2004 movie Iron Jawed Angels at West Chester University. I think even someone who (though everyone should) didn’t care much about the issue–women’s right to vote, and justice in a … Continue reading
Posted in Law, Women
Tagged Alice Paul, Bayard Rustin, Iron Jawed Angels, Lincoln, right to vote, women's suffrage
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Republican candidates comment on Sandy
Washington, 30 October 2012 The extensive damage from hurricane Sandy is the fault of East Coast residents, two Republican candidates for Senate said today, and therefore assistance from FEMA is not warranted. “Sandy wasn’t a legitimate hurricane,” Missouri candidate for … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Politics, Women
Tagged hurricane Sandy, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin
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“Pro-life”
I know many of us have been mulling this over for years: Why do “pro-life” people usually oppose not only abortion but also birth control, health care for the poor, and pre-natal care for pregnant women? And why do they … Continue reading
Posted in President & candidates, Women
Tagged arms, Carol Aichele, EPA, Head Start, Mitt Romney, pro-life, Republican platform, Thomas Friedman
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