NARAL FOOLISHNESS

The message is: if you're a conservative, pro-life woman, you allow yourself to be dominated by pig-headed right-wingers. You no longer think for yourself, and are shutting down freedom of conscience for others. You're a traitor to all women, everywhere. You've sold us out!

Laura, Karen, Ann, Lynne, Condi, Katherine - they're successful professors, lawyers, librarians and novelists. They have minds of their own. Yet, they unquestioningly support President Bush even as he robs women of the right to make private decisions about their personal lives. Even worse, they’re masking Bush’s record of restricting women’s rights – convincing women across the country to vote for Bush in November.

You're not the only one who finds this disturbing... and you can be part of the growing number of Americans who are ready to do something about it.

Imagine what President Bush will be able to restrict, what choices he'll take away, if any more of us let our ideals of women's rights and equality take a back seat to his ideology. A lot can happen in four years – enough to take our right to choose away completely. Help us elect the only president who will fight for a country where we're entitled to think, question, express our views, and make our own private decisions... John Kerry.

Based on results from the most comprehensive survey of women (Adobe Acrobat Reader required) I could find, done by Princeton Survey Research Associates on behalf of the Center for the Advancement of Women -- definitely not a bulwark of conservative thought -- NARAL holds a very low opinion of quite a large segment of American women (emphasis mine):

Of 12 issues investigated in this study as possible priorities for a women's movement, only abortion generates sharp differences of opinion. Half of women (49%) say keeping abortion legal should be a top priority of the movement, but 24 percent assign it a lower priority, and 25 percent reject it outright as an issue that should concern a women's movement. In a different context, 55 percent of women say "reproductive rights" is a public issue that is very important to them personally, ranking lowest out of eight public issues tested.

Women's opinions on the issue of abortion itself are sharply divided, and entrenched. Only one-third (34%) of women say abortion should be generally available to those who want it. Forty-five percent hold the opposite view and want access to abortion limited: 31 percent want it limited only to cases of rape, incest and to save the woman's life and 14 percent say abortion should never be permitted. Nineteen percent of women prefer a middle ground, saying abortion should be available, but under new limitations. These might include limitations, for example, on the timing of abortions, or on the steps that must be taken before a woman can have an abortion.

The clear implication by NARAL is that the half of American women who do not regard "protecting the right to choose" abortion as a top priority, are either morally deficient or are unknowingly helping to subjugate and repress their fellow sistahs. In fact in this Princeton Associates survey, even "increasing the number of young women who study math, science and technology" and "reducing drug and alcohol addiction among women" were much more often cited as a top priority for women's advocacy, compared to "protecting reproductive rights."

I guess the Bush/Cheney Diabolic Mind Control technology works better than anyone imagined, since women by nature can't think this way!