Kate Michelman
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Statement of President Kate Michelman on “Unborn Victims of Violence Act”
(Washington, DC) – We must punish severely crimes that deprive women and their families of a hoped-for future child, and Congress could easily pass a bill that would punish criminals and honor families’ losses without entangling the issue in the abortion rights debate at all. But the anti-choice leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives hopes to chip away at women’s rights by passing this deceitful legislation. In Tom DeLay’s House, protecting families and punishing criminals is less important than taking advantage of tragedy to promote the far-right agenda of trying to rob women of their right to choose.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 26, 2004
NARAL Pro-Choice America Opposes Deceptive and Callous Attempt by Congress
to Undermine Right to Choose
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/news/press-releases/2004/pr022604_uvva.html
Statement by Kate Michelman, President, NARAL Pro-Choice America
George Bush may think he can get away with yet another holiday weekend sneak attack on a woman’s right to choose. But pro-choice Americans will remember this MLK Day outrage when Election Day rolls around.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 16, 2004
NARAL Pro-Choice America Speaks Out Against Recess Appointment of Charles
Pickering
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/news/press-releases/2004/pr011604_pickeringappointed.html
Those of us who until last week worked for Senator John Edwards to become president were always fighting for something bigger than any of us and bigger than all of us. We were also part of a movement with the objective, John's objective, of lifting up all Americans.
John Edwards is not going to be president, and so what we who were helping him must do is now elect the individual who has deep in his core John's principles and vision for this country. And so today, with every passion and enthusiasm I have, I am endorsing Senator Barack Obama to be president of the United States
And when I endorsed John Edwards I also knew that Barack Obama shared every one of these concerns, and over the course of Barack's own campaign, the nation has come to believe in him just like I always have as well.
Senator Obama is not just prepared to lead as our beloved Teddy and Caroline Kennedy have said, he is prepared to lead in a way different than we have seen for decades. Not out in front with us behind him, but rather with us beside him.
And that difference is all the difference. That difference separates just any president from a great president; and right now, we need a great president.
Barack Obama will be that great president. He will bring us all together. And together, we will change our country.
During these past many years, we have lost the sense of what we could do together, who we could be, what was possible.
That's changing.
And Barack Obama is the one changing that.
With him, greatness is again within reach.
-- Kate Michelman, Former President, NARAL Pro-Choice America
Why I'm Endorsing Barack Obama
Posted February 3, 2008 | 12:47 PM (EST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-michelman/why-im-endorsing-barack-_b_84658.html
