Anti-choice Zealots, Democrats for Life Long Term Strategy to Turn the Party Anti-Choice is WORKING

[jonathon]

And, a Campaign to Fight Back is RISING - read the whole story to see how you can become involved:

Moderators: Story is shared with express permission from the susanbanthonymuseum.com website and full permission for utilizing full quotes and content from the site has been granted. I should note that I am posting this for a dear friend, in helping her promote the cause of her life.

(Must read, Stupak and Nelson are aligned with this story, they serve on the federal advisory board of Democrats for Life)

The story of how a new wave of anti-choice 'democrats' are turning the party against women rights and health:

The Leader:

Carol Crossed -

•Founder New York Chapter of Feminist Choosing Life of New York
(Formerly Feminists for Life of New York)
•Advisory Board Member Susan B Anthony's List
•Current Vice President, Democrats for Life of America
•Founding Member, Democrats for Life of America
•Board of Directors, Democrats for Life (Former)
•Founder Consistent Life
•Pro-Life Democrats Hall of Fame Award Winner (2002)

DEMOCRATS FOR LIFE:

Democrats for Life of America is an anti-choice organization founded by Carol Crossed who serves as the organization's current vice president. Democrats for Life of America's current campaigns have included pushing for the inclusion of the legislation crafted by their Federal Advisory Board Members, Bart Stupak and Ben Nelson in the current health care reform legislation before Congress. This legislation would place restrictions on the ability of women to obtain coverage of abortion services through private insurance plans. They were successful in including the Stupak language in the House version of the health insurance reform bill. Democrats of Life of America has been actively involved in advocating for the H. R. 6145 Pregnant Women Support Act, also known as 95-10 due to supporter's claims that the bill will reduce the incidence of abortion by ninety five percent in ten years . Contrary to these claims, the bill provides NO public health initiatives to prevent pregnancy through comprehenisve sex education and does not provide funding for increased access to birth control and reproductive health care services. The bill does contain grants for collection of abortion surveillance data, requirements to counsel women about fetal age and characteristics, and grants for ultra-sound equipment to provide images of fetal stage to women seeking abortion services. This bill has passed both chambers of Congress and it is awaiting the signature of President Obama to become law. Democrats for Life prominently featured home page solicitation for attendance at the annual 2010 March for Life in Washington DC to protest the anniversary of the passage of Roe V Wade.

Battle to Redefine Feminism:

Carol Crossed is owner of the newly opened Susan B Anthony Birthplace Museum that is led by a board filled to the brim with strong affliates of Feminists Choosing Life and Feminists for Life of America. The Susan B Anthony Birthplace Museum is the crown jewel in the Feminists Choosing Life of New York ten year campaign to co-opt the legacy of Susan B Anthony & other important historical feminist leaders for their organization's anti-choice agenda and redefine the very definition of feminism as anti-choice. Feminists Choosing Life of New York is a registered non-profit subsidiary of the Susan B Anthony Birthplace Museum according to the Feminists Choosing Life of * New York's Fall 2007 Newsletter 'The Pro-Life Feminist'. Feminists Choosing Life of New York retains control of the selection of SBABM Board members and of the development and direction of the museum itself. Feminist Choosing Life of New York stated their intent to “utilize the property for the advancement of the pro-women/pro-life philosophy” in the *2006 edition of the 'Pro-Life Feminist'. For the record, there is absolutely NO evidence to support their claims that Anthony was anti-choice. You can read more about that issue here:

http://susanbanthonymuseum.com/


The FIGHT:

According to the leaders of feminist and pro-choice organizations across the country, the current anti-choice movement along with Democrats for life has been highly successful in advancing their agenda within the democratic party and weakening protection for womens reproductive rights and health safety. The party leadership has been consistently dialing back their language surrounding abortion rights to soften their stance for the anti-choice. Anti-choice candidates are welcomed into the party of the 'big tent' with open arms, indeed as a strategy for advancing democratic wins in 'red' states. As a direct result, womens access to safe, affordable, and accessible abortions is severely threatened. The democrats willingness to utilize women's health and safety as bargining chips for their political campaigns can no longer be allowed to stand. Therefore, the owners of the susanbanthonymuseum.com are preparing a national campaign to hold the democratic party and its politicians responsible for representing their own party platform of protecting a womens right to choose which will be part of a larger campaign to hold the democratic party accountable for representation of the people on all its platform issues.

If you are interested in becoming involved - you can sign up on http://susanbanthonymuseum.com/userPage_3_Contact-Us.htm to get on the email list for action alerts. (Note, you do not NEED to give a phone number, just write in refrain if you don't want to share that information. A seperate website from the Anthony museum owners is under development for this specific campaign and if you sign up at the museum site, you will be automatically included on this email list as well. This campaign is being conducted in coordination with academic and progressive political organizations that will be fighting to regain democratic representation on issues such as health care, war, workers rights and more. This is the grassroots campaign you have been waiting for....

In addition, PLEASE sign up and invite ALL your friends to the facebook group I bet we can find a million people who SUPPORT a woman's RIGHT to CHOOSE! This facebook group will be KEY in reaching a large and like-minded audience to recruit people for the on-the-ground fight. The campaign will outreach heavily through this and many other social networking groups, so let's work together to get as MANY people on board as possible. The goal is a million people. It was started a little over a week ago, and it already has over 1,500 members. Here's the link to join:

I bet we can find a million people who SUPPORT a woman's RIGHT to CHOOSE!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=292932589774&ref=mf

Also, if you could kick & recommend this post and email this information to friends, it would be a GIANT help as we work to get this campaign off the groud.

And, again, you can sign up for action alerts and information about the larger campaign here:

http://susanbanthonymuseum.com/userPage_3_Contact-Us.htm

Thank you all!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. This is sooo not the Democratic Party that I am used to....

Disappointment after disappointment...

[jonathon]

7. And, enough is enough

Time to fight back, balls out.

[femrap]

8. I believe it's more like

betrayal after betrayal.

They're on their own now....they think women HAVE to vote for them because we have 'no choice.' I want a third PROGRESSIVE party. I am tired of going backward.

[jonathon]

10. I think that the progressives need to come to that place through outreach

I am working with the Progressive Democrats of America and this the dialogue that is going on within that organization. They are trying to outreach to the dems but I believe if the continued attempts to work with the party fail, a true progressive party will emerge. I think that a real effort from progressive dems to take back the democratic party from within, if failed, will lead to what you speak about.

Thanks

[femrap]

22. I like PDA...I get their

emails, but I have no local organization where I live.

I think our Democracy is already gone and as long as We, The People have pron, American Idol and a right wing media to manipulate our uneducated brains...there isn't a damn thing to do about it.

I'm so tired...I just want to be a hermit and deal with these stupid citizens as little as possible.

Sorry...I think I'm having a bad day or something...

:evilfrown:

[jonathon]

28. It is exhausting, I know. But take heart my friend. You are not alone

The calvary is coming.

Our first campaign is BELIEVE.

[BrklynLiberal]

23. I have been reading

http://boldprogressives.org/home.html

OUR MISSION: The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) works to elect bold progressive candidates to federal office and to help those candidates and their campaigns save money, work smarter, and win more often.

We also advocate for bold leadership on the most important and pressing causes. Read about our campaigns, and sign up to join our fight

[jonathon]

32. THANKS for sharing, I am going to contact them so we can form an alliance

Great reference.

I definitely like this organization's style.

Cool beans!

[Greyhound]

2. This is important and we should keep this up front for however long it takes. K&R. n/t

[RainDog]

5. we are threatened NOW by candidates the conservadems are proffering

we will prevail against the anti-women faction of the party.

oh yes we will.

[RainDog]

3. thank you for this post - and this action

this is needed now.

I will certainly check out the links.

[jonathon]

9. Thank you for your follow up!

:)

[T Wolf]

4. You CANNOT be a "feminist" and adhere to the anti-choice position. That is a simple fact.

These cretins have shown their true colors by abandoning any pretense to being "pro-woman" in any way.

Here's hoping something shuts down that "museum" before they have too much time to spread their filth and lies.

[jonathon]

6. I stand in agreement with you! Feet to the fire time is NOW!

Thanks for the kicks and recommends everyone and helping to get this important story and campaign out!

:yourock:

[pleah]

11. K AND R!

[jonathon]

16. Thank you -

This story does need to get to the top of the front page.

Womens reproductive health and choice is literally at stake and we need to sound the alarm.

:kick:

[pleah]

17. I have been trying to keep people informed, too.

Thanks for the thread. :)

The religious taliban in Mississippi is trying to pass laws saying life begins at conception. Geeze, it just doesn't end with those people.

[jonathon]

19. I was listening to one of the religious radio shows out of the South

Unbelievable stuff.

Solicit for money....protect the unborn....solicit for money..........

Hawk a plastic cross from China....protect the unborn.....Hawk a plastic cross from China...........

[pleah]

25. There are also about 20 churches within a 5 miles radius from my house.

I'm not kidding. :(

[jonathon]

27. Omg.

Unbelievable.

[krabigirl]

12. If this crap keeps up, I'll register as decline to state. What's the point?

[jonathon]

14. This is the time to fight. Believe me, there are things that can be done

My friends has gained tremendous state and even national political access at a ridiculously rapid rate in taking this issue to the dems and she is aligning with many pro-choice & progressive advocacy groups to gain a large support for this cause (which as I said is going to be tied into a larger campaign to get citizens off the side lines and into the direct fight for their own represenation).

I wouldn't believe what she is doing and accomplishing, if I didn't see it with my very own eyes.

[kestrel91316]

13. Obviously if the majority is anti-choice than that's the way America should be.

Go ahead and sentence your daughters to death. I no longer care. I fought the good fight for years and am now watching a fundamental right be pissed away because too few give a damn.

Ok, whatever, suit yourselves.

[jonathon]

15. The majority isn't anti-choice.

But, they are incredibly complacent.

I have a teenage daughter and a young niece and I can't give up for them.

This is a battle that must be fought not only for womens saftey and reproductive health, but to stop the zealots from holding our politicians hostage to this issue, so that they can't govern or move beyond it to address core issues that will help the American citizenry.

I know you are discouraged, but there is a group of amazing people working to take this back at the frontlines and they already are getting bloodied, even by their own party. We all need to join them so they can effectively fight.

[jonathon]

18. wow, this post is being unrecommended.

I don't get it.

Trolls maybe?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. There's quite a few "since conception" anti-choice nuts round here. Confessedly so.

Amazingly, this is considered an admissible position here. I'm floored.

[jonathon]

29. It shouldn't be surprising given the acceptance in the way womens reproductive rights

Were utilized as bargaining chips for the health reform legislation.

That was the wake up call for how horrible things have become & it is why I am working on this fight

[saracat]

30. Nah. Just conservudems and part of the party.They disgust me.

They always support anti-choice Dems and think they are entitled to be considered Democrats.I disagree.

[jonathon]

31. The big tent is going to collapse. If you don't stand for anything -

Then you are not going to get people to stand with you.

Either the dems recognize this now and lead for the people or a progressive third party will arise. I think in order to get to that point, we are going to have to reach out a hand to the dems to show a good faith attempt to convince the dems to work with us. Once we do this and if they fail to work with us, I think a lot of democrats are going to feel just fine leaving the party that abandoned THEM.

[saracat]

33. Many already have, and more will follow.Those that persist in believing that many haven't left do so

at their peril.the democrats are going to pay a price for this.I know many who will nOT support the anti-choice and anti-GBLT Dems. I cite them together because it seems they often are the same bad faux Dems. And for those who whine that without them we would lose, I say I would rather lose.They don't represent Democratic ideals anyway.

[jonathon]

34. You are right - my friend is meeting with the state leaders of the party to discuss precisely that..

It is so obvious. Look at how Stupak and Nelson were able to seriously weaken the health care reform legislation, and not just with the language reducing the ability of women to purchase private insurance with abortion coverage. Nelson was adamant against the public option as well.

These politicians don't give a rat's ass about the issue of abortion. It is constantly used for them to gain power and then do the bidding of the corporate gods.

Gross.

[leftstreet]

20. K&R

[Blue_Tires]

21. sadly, not new...

the anti-union dems (using their own colorfully harmless names) have been weaving their magic for years now, and we see the result today...

[Greyhound]

26. Kick

:kick: