I have always been pro choice. I cannot imagine a day when I will not be. I, like many women before me have fought and won the battle for choice for decades. Just like many other issues that concern women, we have fought the battles and carried the banner and made many great advances.
I know this is not about politics but it is about grassroots and one person trying to make a real difference, so lets all join together, differences aside, and help this girl do something good. I have posted some quotes from the article but it really is a good story and you should click the link and read the whole thing.
Kristin Elliott, 18, Asked Make-A-Wish Foundation to Help Build African Orphanage.
Help Her do it.
Kristin Elliott Featured as ABC's Person of the Week.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/PersonOfWeek/St ory?id=4776877&page=2
After the 2000 election I woke up and wondered how almost half of the U.S. voting population could have voted for such an idiot making the election so close that the SCOTUS could have the opportunity to award the job of POTUS to a blithering idiot like George W. Bush. The one thing I never lost was hope. I believed that the American people would see what I saw and right this wrong.
The Press has made a big deal about the candidates NCAA Tournament Picks. Obama picked North Carolina Hillary picked Bills Alma Mater Georgetown and lets just be honest I don't know or care who McCain picked. But the question of the candidates picks tells us more about the media than it does about the candidates.
For those of you who say Senator Clinton supported "BUSH'S war from the beginning here it is from the Congressional Record, and straight from the horses mouth. Please read it all before you comment, since "partially informed is poorly informed"
In 2004 more than 122 million people voted in the November election, a number that translates into the highest turnout -- 60.7 percent -- since 1968. To date roughly 28 million people have voted in the Democratic Primaries. Barack Obama has received 13,857,346 votes, Hillary Clinton has received 13,776,704. Thus far 23% of those who voted in 2004 have cast a ballot for a Democratic candidate in this primary season.
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· MN-Sen: Norm Coleman's record on education (MN Campaign Report)
· Liveblog: Obama in Colorado Springs (em dash)
· Pelosi Heads To Netroots Nation (Josh Orton)
· Moveon to make July 9 a "Day of Action for an Oil-Free President" (desmoinesdem)
· WA-8: Burner Loses Home to Fire (Sandwich Repairman)
· MN-Sen: Ethics Complaint Filed Against Republican Norm Coleman (Senate Guru)
· Richardson says Clinton would be a strong running mate (fbihop)
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· MS-03 Outgoing Congressman Pickering Files For Divorce (cottonmouthblog)