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ORIGINALLY AIRED LIVE ON CSPAN: Monday, July 11, 2005
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The Urgent Report released in the current issue of Ms. Magazine analyzes what's at stake for women if one more conservative Justice is named to the Supreme Court.
On July 11th, Ms. hosted a Community Forum at the National Press Club to discuss how changes in the court could endanger not just abortion rights but four decades of women's access to contraceptives and other critical women's rights.
Ellen Chesler, historian & author, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America ; Senior Fellow, Open Society Institute |
Judith M. DeSarno, president and CEO, National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association |
Eleanor Smeal, president, Feminist Majority Foundation and publisher, Ms. Magazine; testified on behalf of Sandra Day O'Connor before Senate Judiciary Committee in 1981 as NOW president |
Jocelyn Frye , Director of Legal and Public Policy, National Partnership for Women & Families, focusing on a new report that poses key questions women need answered by the next nominee to U.S. Supreme Court |
Frank Susman, reproductive rights attorney; argued Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, the 1989 U.S. Supreme Court case that threatened legal abortion rights |
Kathy Spillar, Executive Editor, Ms. Magazine |
Dolores Huerta, co-founder and first vice president emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO; leader of Civil Rights movement; president of the Dolores Huerta foundation. |
TAKE ACTION
Feminists must act now to save the Supreme Court for women's rights.
1. Read the Ms. Urgent Report on What’s at Stake for Women
2. Tape the Ms. Community Forum from C-SPAN and host a viewing party to educate your friends and family.
3. Make an Emergency Contribution to help Ms. break through the conservative media monopoly. |
We must make sure women's voices and lives are not left out of this crucial turning point in our nation's history and the history of American women. |
Photos by Hilary Schwab
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