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To: TimF who wrote (77146)	7/29/2008 3:43:06 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543104

Sigghh, we are in such different planets, Tim. Short answers to your statements. 1. The Reps have advocated taking away women's right to choose, and done so at the national level for a very long time. But one can effectively date it to 1980, just for convenience. That's a threat to the ability of women to choose to have an early term abortion. Pretty clear limitation of a choice that the SC had decided derived from the constitution. 2. On affirmative action, it's point is to increase the opportunity to groups discriminated against. If you think there is no discrimination in American society, then your position is tenable. Since discrimination in public education is still a major problem, affirmative action is necessary to expand opportunity. 3. Present attempts to deny gays and lesbians the right to marry are so obviously a limitation on their freedom, it's not even worth discussing.