Comments on: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Dr. Susan Wicklund

By: WWWoDEMOCRATZoORG

WWWoDEMOCRATZoORG — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:44:45 +0000

I would like to give people a way to stop the anti choice movement in their tracks. I saw Dr. Susan Wicklund’s appearance on C-SPAN which got rebroadcast again this morning.

Dr. Susan Wicklund talked about the weakest link of the Doctors.

We need to go after the weakest link of the anti choice movement, namely some of the corporations that support the anti choice movement.

I want women and men to call Domino’s Pizza whose new CEO also opposes abortions for women, and also Curves for Women Health Club, again the CEO opposes abortions for women, and DEMAND that their CEOs use their influence to:

STOP demonstrations of abortion clinics

enactment by congress and signed by the president, a law legalizing abortion

and until that happens you will refuse to buy their products and will not patronize their business.

Most of you recall that over 20,000 women called Verizon about 4 months ago and forced Verizon to stop censoring NARALs text messages in 2 hours under threat of a consumer boycott. 2 hours!!!

The pro choice movment needs to make hundreds of thousands of phone calls to 2 big anti choice companies and legally threaten their income from you.

When you unionize with hundreds of thousands of people to call these two companies and tell them you refuse to do business with them, you will crush the right wing and shut them down in the area of abortion rights.

Go forth and make some phone calls and organize!

http://www.democratz.org

By: Wordsmith

Wordsmith — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:44:26 +0000

DAmnit! I’m too late, huh.

I actually TiVo’d this and watched it from Book TV, last weekend I think.

By: Biodun Iginla

Biodun Iginla — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:28:16 +0000

Basically, the pro-choice pro-life debate is irresolvable: Pro-choice proponents say the federal government has absolutely no control over a woman’s body. Pro-life proponents say that life begins at conception and not at birth. Never the twain shall meet, period.

I wonder what you think about this impasse. (and it is one, let’s not make any mistake about that)..Dr. Susan Wicklund…

By: furysmom

furysmom — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:11:55 +0000

I had the great fortune to work at one of the last true women’s clinics in Gainesville Florida in 1991-1992. During the day I helped do all of the work leading up to seeing the practitioner, including talking about birth control methods. During two nights of the week I got to assist the Dr. during the abortions–and on one of those two evenings there were second trimester abortions that went up to 24 weeks (above that and they quickly drove up to Georgia who went up to 26 weeks, I believe). There were many reasons why there are second trimester abortions–but the two groups that stood out for me were the women who had gone through amnio and other tests and found out that the fetus had just a brain stem or some other tragic condition and the other big group were young girls, some I remember were as young as 12, who had been too afraid to tell anyone until they were much further along–and a lot of those girls had been subject to sexual abuse.

During those years there were plenty of protestors and rallies during that time. I distinctly remember this one where all of the feminist practitioners of the competing clinics were standing together and were stating that they saw many women they recognized having had abortions carrying the anti-choice banners and signs. It was an early lesson in right-wing hypocrisy and disconnect.

I miss those wonderful, committed individuals, from the doctor, to the NP & PA, and the rest of the clinic workers. I’m coming to this post late but look forward to reading it through and very much look forward to reading this book.

By: Jane Hamsher

Jane Hamsher — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:49:48 +0000

Thanks so much for being here today, Dr. Wicklund. You’re a real hero and we appreciate your dedication and courage.

By: Jane Hamsher

Jane Hamsher — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:08:42 +0000

BTW, Joe Lieberman came out against making Plan B contraceptives mandatory for state hospitals receiving public funds, saying that it was only a “short ride” for rape victims to a hospital that offered them.

He received the NARAL endorsement after that. This was CT NARAL’s big issue that year. It essentially cut the legs out from under them.

And after Lieberman voted against cloture (with Lincoln Chafee, which put Alito on the bench) NARAL sent out an email to their supporters telling them to thanks both Chafee and Lieberman (because they gave a perfunctory “no” vote on the floor when it didn’t matter).

It seems I’ve written 251 posts on NARAL and Lieberman alone, now that I look at it.

By: Amanda Marcotte

Amanda Marcotte — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:05:59 +0000

Thank you everyone! Thank you so much for your wonderful book, Dr. Wicklund.

By: gayviewinbayview

gayviewinbayview — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:03:51 +0000

i think they’re throwing red meat to 23%ers. it’s always been about control. control using religion. control using fear. the rules and regs rarely apply to the elite.

By: Susan Wicklund

Susan Wicklund — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:02:55 +0000

Yes, but anti-choice Democrats are more dangerous than pro-choice republicans in my opinion.

By: BevW

BevW — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:02:22 +0000

Dr Wicklund, thank you for coming to the Lake and spending the afternoon with us. Amanda thank you for hosting this book salon.

Everyone who has not read this important book, please buy one and talk about it.