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An Open Letter to Gov. Sarah Palin on Women's Rights

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

An Open Letter to Gov. Sarah Palin on Women's Rights By Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women Posted on September 4, 2008, Printed on September 4, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/97457/ Dear Governor Sarah Palin: Many Americans agree with your position regarding abortion -- they do this as a matter of faith, ethics, personal experience and sometimes politics. I am just wondering though, if you have thought about what would happen if you succeeded in getting your position -- that fetuses have a right to life -- established as the law of the land? Did you know that it not only threatens the lives, health and freedom of women who might want or need someday to end their pregnancies, it would also give the government the power to control the lives of women -- like you who -- go to term? Your last pregnancy, the one that has become the topic of widespread discussion and speculation provides an important opportunity to demonstrate how this could be true...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).