Fw: now-action-list Just Say NO W

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Martha Murdock, Director

National Silicone Implant Foundation

Dallas, Texas Headquarters

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From: National Organization for Women <now@...>

now-action-list@... <now-action-list@...>

Date: Thursday, January 11, 2001 1:40 AM

Subject: now-action-list Just Say NO " W "

>Please feel free to forward the following to activists:

>

>From the National Organization for Women Action Center:

>

>* Despite his promise to be a " compassionate conservative, " W.

Bush's

>Cabinet nominees are overwhelmingly radical right-wing ideologues.

>

>* Cabinet nominees Ashcroft (for Attorney General) and Tommy

>(for

>Secretary of Health and Human Services) are proponents of some of the most

>regressive social policies on the ultraconservatives' agenda.

>

>* Ashcroft has urged a ban on some of the most effective forms of birth

>control

>as well as abortion, even in cases of rape and incest, or if a woman's

health

>is at risk. is also staunchly anti-abortion rights. He signed an

>abortion procedures ban in Wisconsin like the one the U.S. Supreme Court

found

>unconstitutionally deceptive and dangerous.

>

>* Both Ashcroft and advocate giving public funds, including monies

>for

>public education, to church-run programs, without adequate protection

against

>proselytizing and discrimination.

>

>* As Wisconsin governor, engineered punitive welfare policies that

>hurt poor women and their families. Those policies were the foundation for

the

>law passed by the Gingrich/Lott Congress.

>

>* Ashcroft used his position as attorney general of Missouri to try to deny

>NOW's constitutional right to call for a boycott of states which had not

>ratified the Equal Rights Amendment.

>

>* Bush seeks to install a Corporate Cabinet that is more concerned with

>big-business than the needs of ordinary people. Six of his thirteen pending

>Cabinet nominees come from oil and gas, drug, rail and defense companies,

>including a former CEO and a former VP from Lockheed .

>

>* Join the National Organization for Women to

>Protest the Nominations of Ashcroft and !

>

>* Call your U.S. senator and urge her/him to vote " No " on Ashcroft and

>.

>(Capitol switchboard number is 202-224-3121 or visit http://www.senate.gov)

>

>* Write letters to the editor and call in to radio shows to help educate

the

>public on Ashcroft's and 's abysmal records on women's rights.

>

>* Call your local NOW chapter, get active in your community.

>

>* Join NOW . . . There's strength in numbers. We need you NOW more than

ever!

>

>For more information, call 202-628-8669, ext. 0, visit http://www.now.org,

or

>email now@...

>

>

>

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