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To: epicure who wrote (41219)	9/10/2007 11:22:00 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541430

On the women's right to choose front, the right has been hedged so much by court decisions all the way up to the Supreme Court that it's limited now. Many states, as you know, make it almost impossible to get an abortion. The right wing has been very adept a repackaging the right to choose so folk who favor it at the national level, politicians that is, are on the defensive. Having said that, I agree with the argument that a wholesale attack on Roe versus Wade itself looks to be a political loser. But, for me, that's one of those crossover moments when the social culture collides with the political culture. As for the safety net shredding, there has been a great deal of it: length of time for unemployment insurance; Clinton's welfare bill signing; paying Medicare insurance premiums; paying taxes on social security benefits; etc. I agree, however, with your illustration, that social security itself and medicare itself remain in place, threatened as they are by tax cuts over the past twenty years. And underfunded because of that.