Women's Reproductive Rights Thrown Under Obama's Bus

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
November 10, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/646/women-reproductive-rights-thrown-under-obama-bus

Excerpt:

After Obama was elected, Ms. magazine ran a cover with an image of him opening his shirt, Clark Kent style, to reveal a T-shirt which reads: "THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST LOOKS LIKE."

Given how quickly reproductive rights were just jettisoned in the House, and mainly by Democrats, I wonder if there is any breast-beating going on over there. I certainly hope so, but I doubt it.

It seems like only yesterday that Hillary was running against Barack—but it also seems like a hundred years ago.

However, long before the Ms. magazine cover, I remember The List, which first came out during the Democratic primary race. I was shocked and disheartened by it. How could so many educated American women be so foolish, so desperate, so easily conned?

No, I am not talking about the McCarthy era blacklist (the only list that tenured and creative leftists really take seriously) but about the "Feminist Petition for Obama and for Peace."

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