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	<title>Comments on: An Open Letter to Democrats From Planned Parenthood</title>
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		<title>By: Melissa</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/11/an-open-letter-to-democrats-from-planned-parenthood/#comment-187253</link>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;No shit- Just as soon as I got to the last comment, who calls me? NARAL. I told the rep that I would no longer be contributing because of this endorsement. Her exact words, IN DEFENSE of the endorsement: “If you cross people who support you, they will stop supporting you”. My response? “You took the words right out of my mouth”. Politics over the realities of womens’ lives. Sickening.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No shit- Just as soon as I got to the last comment, who calls me? NARAL. I told the rep that I would no longer be contributing because of this endorsement. Her exact words, IN DEFENSE of the endorsement: “If you cross people who support you, they will stop supporting you”. My response? “You took the words right out of my mouth”. Politics over the realities of womens’ lives. Sickening.</p>
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		<title>By: Feminist Law Professors &#187; Blog Archive &#187; NARAL, Planned Parenthood and Lieberman</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/11/an-open-letter-to-democrats-from-planned-parenthood/#comment-186746</link>
		<dc:creator>Feminist Law Professors &#187; Blog Archive &#187; NARAL, Planned Parenthood and Lieberman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;[…] A few weeks ago, Planned Parenthood endorsed Lieberman as well. Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake, among others, had a fairly negative reaction to this. Women make up a majority of the Democratic Party. Four years ago an article in The New Republic reported: Given the GOP’s well-known “gender gap,” it’s easy to forget that not long ago American women voted disproportionately Republican. In 1960, for instance, women supported Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy 53 percent to 46 percent. But starting with Barry Goldwater’s nomination in 1964, and accelerating after Reagan’s nomination in 1980, the GOP’s growing social conservatism began driving away women voters. That led, by the ’90s, to women regularly supporting Democrats by absolute majorities. In 2000, women backed Gore 54 percent to 43 percent. […]&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[…] A few weeks ago, Planned Parenthood endorsed Lieberman as well. Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake, among others, had a fairly negative reaction to this. Women make up a majority of the Democratic Party. Four years ago an article in The New Republic reported: Given the GOP’s well-known “gender gap,” it’s easy to forget that not long ago American women voted disproportionately Republican. In 1960, for instance, women supported Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy 53 percent to 46 percent. But starting with Barry Goldwater’s nomination in 1964, and accelerating after Reagan’s nomination in 1980, the GOP’s growing social conservatism began driving away women voters. That led, by the ’90s, to women regularly supporting Democrats by absolute majorities. In 2000, women backed Gore 54 percent to 43 percent. […]</p>
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		<title>By: Meg</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/11/an-open-letter-to-democrats-from-planned-parenthood/#comment-185931</link>
		<dc:creator>Meg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;What the hell was NARAL thinking??!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What the hell was NARAL thinking??!!</p>
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		<title>By: The Gun Toting Liberal &#187; Blog Archive &#187;</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/11/an-open-letter-to-democrats-from-planned-parenthood/#comment-185666</link>
		<dc:creator>The Gun Toting Liberal &#187; Blog Archive &#187;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;[…] Jane Hamsher exhibits satirical brilliance here, and if the fact that Planned Parenthood endorsed Joe Lieberman wasn’t such a depressing example of suck up capitulation, her “Open Letter to Democrats from Planned Parenthood” would be howlingly funny. Firededoglake has several posts up about this fiasco; how is this endorsement even possible after voting for cloture on Alito and his infamous non-support for rape victims? […]&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[…] Jane Hamsher exhibits satirical brilliance here, and if the fact that Planned Parenthood endorsed Joe Lieberman wasn’t such a depressing example of suck up capitulation, her “Open Letter to Democrats from Planned Parenthood” would be howlingly funny. Firededoglake has several posts up about this fiasco; how is this endorsement even possible after voting for cloture on Alito and his infamous non-support for rape victims? […]</p>
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		<title>By: Bring it On! &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Hey Joe, I Heard You Shot Your Woman Down</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/11/an-open-letter-to-democrats-from-planned-parenthood/#comment-185634</link>
		<dc:creator>Bring it On! &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Hey Joe, I Heard You Shot Your Woman Down</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;[…] Jane Hamsher exhibits satirical brilliance here, and if the fact that Planned Parenthood endorsed Joe Lieberman wasn’t such a depressing example of suck up capitulation, her “Open Letter to Democrats from Planned Parenthood” would be howlingly funny. Firededoglake has several posts up about this fiasco; how is this endorsement even possible after voting for cloture on Alito and his infamous non-support for rape victims? […]&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[…] Jane Hamsher exhibits satirical brilliance here, and if the fact that Planned Parenthood endorsed Joe Lieberman wasn’t such a depressing example of suck up capitulation, her “Open Letter to Democrats from Planned Parenthood” would be howlingly funny. Firededoglake has several posts up about this fiasco; how is this endorsement even possible after voting for cloture on Alito and his infamous non-support for rape victims? […]</p>
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		<title>By: Phil</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/11/an-open-letter-to-democrats-from-planned-parenthood/#comment-185194</link>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;My NARAL donation for the year has now become a Ned Lamont donation.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My NARAL donation for the year has now become a Ned Lamont donation.</p>
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		<title>By: Jon</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/11/an-open-letter-to-democrats-from-planned-parenthood/#comment-185068</link>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;NARAL also endorsed Mayor Bloomberg of NYC who vetoed a city coucil bill that would require all emergency rooms to stock emergency contraception for victims of rape and incest.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bloomberg who is a billionaire was still able to get the endosement by telling an influential NARAL NYC leader whose initials are JM, that should NARAL get behind his opponent who is solidly pro=choice, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Inc. and all of the charities and trusts he funds will cut off all donations to NARAL. Unlike Lieberman, Bloomberg had the class to just pay NARAL off.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NARAL also endorsed Mayor Bloomberg of NYC who vetoed a city coucil bill that would require all emergency rooms to stock emergency contraception for victims of rape and incest.</p>
<p>Bloomberg who is a billionaire was still able to get the endosement by telling an influential NARAL NYC leader whose initials are JM, that should NARAL get behind his opponent who is solidly pro=choice, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Inc. and all of the charities and trusts he funds will cut off all donations to NARAL. Unlike Lieberman, Bloomberg had the class to just pay NARAL off.</p>
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		<title>By: radlib1</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/11/an-open-letter-to-democrats-from-planned-parenthood/#comment-185066</link>
		<dc:creator>radlib1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Dear Planned Parenthood (and NARAL, too),&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now that you have endorsed Joe “Short Ride” Lieberman for Senate in Connecticut, you can forget about ever getting another dime from me. I have contributed in the past, but your cynical sell-out to a hypocritical politician is, frankly, obscene.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don’t you people realize that Senator Lieberman was part of the “Gang of Fourteen” senators who tacitly allowed Samuel Alito, an anti-choice, anti-woman, anti-minority man to be put on the Supreme Court and rule against women and choice for the next 20 to 30 years?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lieberman didn’t see any “extraordinary circumstances” with Alito (how about the threat to reverse Roe v. Wade?) to actively oppose him and support a filibuster against him, so he voted with his “Gang of 14″ for cloture and effectively undermined the Democratic opposition to Alito. Only then, when it was clear that Alito had the votes to win and it no longer mattered, did Lieberman vote a hypocritical “no”. Years ago, he did much the same thing with Clarence Thomas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How’s that for talking out of both sides of your mouth? And how naive and yet cynical you are for endorsing him.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For shame. For shame.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Planned Parenthood (and NARAL, too),</p>
<p>Now that you have endorsed Joe “Short Ride” Lieberman for Senate in Connecticut, you can forget about ever getting another dime from me. I have contributed in the past, but your cynical sell-out to a hypocritical politician is, frankly, obscene.</p>
<p>Don’t you people realize that Senator Lieberman was part of the “Gang of Fourteen” senators who tacitly allowed Samuel Alito, an anti-choice, anti-woman, anti-minority man to be put on the Supreme Court and rule against women and choice for the next 20 to 30 years?</p>
<p>Lieberman didn’t see any “extraordinary circumstances” with Alito (how about the threat to reverse Roe v. Wade?) to actively oppose him and support a filibuster against him, so he voted with his “Gang of 14″ for cloture and effectively undermined the Democratic opposition to Alito. Only then, when it was clear that Alito had the votes to win and it no longer mattered, did Lieberman vote a hypocritical “no”. Years ago, he did much the same thing with Clarence Thomas.</p>
<p>How’s that for talking out of both sides of your mouth? And how naive and yet cynical you are for endorsing him.</p>
<p>For shame. For shame.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
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		<title>By: annefrank</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/11/an-open-letter-to-democrats-from-planned-parenthood/#comment-185055</link>
		<dc:creator>annefrank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Planned Parenthood and NARAL - not one more dime from me!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Planned Parenthood and NARAL &#8211; not one more dime from me!</p>
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		<title>By: LeatherPenguin &#187; If Thia Ain&#8217;t &#8220;Moonbat,&#8221; Then Waht the Fuck?</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/11/an-open-letter-to-democrats-from-planned-parenthood/#comment-185003</link>
		<dc:creator>LeatherPenguin &#187; If Thia Ain&#8217;t &#8220;Moonbat,&#8221; Then Waht the Fuck?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;[…] Firedoglake - Firedoglake&gt;&gt;An Open Letter to Democrats From Planned Parenthood  Filed under: Politics and Media and InterWeb and Moonbats Comments: […]&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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