Response and Myrl's mail

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Subj: Re: POST: Response and Myrl's mail Important for women to know. Bob

Date: 6/22/2005 10:28:10 PM Eastern Standard Time

From: OOREROOM

Kathynye

19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920) - Transcript

Sixty-sixth Congress of the United States of America; At the First Session,

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislature of three-fourths of the several States.

"ARTICLE ————.

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

The beginning of the fight for women suffrage is usually traced to the "Declaration of Sentiments" produced at the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N. Y. in 1848. Four years later, at the Woman's Rights Convention in Syracuse in 1852, B. joined the fight, arguing that "the right women needed above every other...was the right of suffrage." During debates on the Reconstruction Amendments which extended the vote to ex-slaves (through the 15th Amendment), suffragists pushed hard for "universal suffrage," but they never had a chance.

In 1872, a suffragists brought a series of court challenges designed to test whether voting was a "privilege" of "U. S. citizenship" now belonging to women by virtue of the recently adopted 14th Amendment. One such challenge grew out of a criminal prosecution of B. for illegally voting in the 1872 election. The first case to make its way to the Supreme Court, however, was Minor vs Happersett (1875). In Minor, a unanimous Court rejected the argument that either the privileges and immunities clause or the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment extended the vote to women. Following Minor, suffragists turned their attention from the courts to the states and to Congress.

In 1878, a constitutional amendment was proposed that provided "The right of citizens to vote shall not be abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." This same amendment would be introduced in every session of Congress for the next 41 years.

In July 1890, the Territory of Wyoming, which allowed women to vote, was admitted as a state. Wyoming became the first state with women suffrage. By 1900, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho joined Wyoming in allowing women to vote.

In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive (Bull Moose) Party became the first national political party to have a plank supporting women suffrage. The tide was beginning to turn.

In May, 1919, the necessary two-thirds vote in favor of the women suffrage amendment was finally mustered in Congress, and the proposed amendment was sent to the states for ratification. By July 1920, with a number of primarily southern states adamantly opposed to the amendment, it all came down to Tennessee. It appeared that the amendment might fail by one vote in the Tennessee house, but twenty-four-year-old Harry Burn surprised observers by casting the deciding vote for ratification. At the time of his vote, Burns had in his pocket a letter he had received from his mother urging him, "Don't forget to be a good boy" and "vote for suffrage." Women had finally won the vote.

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Subj: Re: POST:Responses and Silicone thorax due to a ruptured breast implant & News

Date: 6/23/2005 2:34:34 AM Eastern Standard Time

From: scarab@...

Kathynye@...

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Tell the group that I also have had spine sujrgery with no results & they want to do more. I have refused. Also, I also have a lump on the lower left side of my right lung. They also want me to use a nebulizer which does no good. It has got to be silicone. Thousands of us have these same conditions that doctors refuse to recognise. All I can say is just hang in there and live your life the best way you can. At 70 at least my doctor gives me the pain meds I need. scarab

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Subj: Police Investigate Silcone Incident in the San Diego area

Date: 6/23/2005 9:57:22 AM Eastern Standard Time

From: myrlj@...

myrlj@...

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Thanks to Pam Saraceni Noonan for sending the following incident in the San Diego area. . .Myrl

Police Investigate Silicone Incident

06-22-2005 4:28 PM

(San Diego, CA) -- San Diego police are investigating an incident that left two transgender females hospitalized in critical condition after being injected with silicone. Authorities say the victims were at a party on Florida Street Tuesday when they paid a woman to inject silicone into their bodies to enhance their physiques. Several hours later they became ill and were transported to a nearby hospital, where they are currently on life support. It's believed the woman who provided the injections is an unlicensed medical practictioner who lives in the LA area. Anyone with information is asked to call police.