Fw: now-action-list Stop Ashcroft NOW!

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Ashcroft is definitely not 'on our team', so we must do whatever we can do

to educate him & his proponents regarding why we don't want him in this

position!

MM/NSIF

Martha Murdock, Director

National Silicone Implant Foundation

Dallas, Texas Headquarters

-----Original Message-----

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

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Date: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:32 AM

Subject: now-action-list Stop Ashcroft NOW!

>Please feel free to forward the following to activists:

>

>From the National Organization for Women Action Center:

>

>* Cabinet nominee Ashcroft (for Attorney General) is a proponent of

>some of the most regressive social policies on the ultraconservatives'

agenda.

>

>* As governor of Missouri, Ashcroft's administration violated a provision

>of the Missouri Constitution that required all forfeited funds go to public

>schools. Ashcroft reportedly told police that he would " look the other way "

>as they circumvented the law.

>

>* 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.

>

>* Ashcroft advocates giving public funds, including monies for public

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

>proselytizing and discrimination.

>

>* 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.

>

>* Ashcroft refused to answer questions under oath about allegations that

>he improperly used his office as Missouri attorney general to raise funds

>for his 1984 campaign for Missouri governor.

>

>Join the National Organization for Women to Protest Ashcroft's

Nomination

>

>WHO: Ireland & Other Activists

>

>WHAT: Stop Ashcroft NOW! News Conference & Protest

>

>WHEN: Wednesday, January 31, 2001

>News Conference at 12 Noon in the Senate Swamp (East side of Capitol)

>AND

>Protest at 12:30 PM in front of Dirksen Senate Office Building

>Constitution Ave., NE (between First & Second Sts.)

>

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

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