POLITICAL LARYNGITIS -- CURABLE OR TERMINAL?

Human rights are in the court of public opinion.
Politicians claim to be sensitive to the voice of the
electorate -- that's us, but they are not hearing us.
We have been drowned out for some time now by a deluge
of voices who claim to be right (correct) but are
really from the right (direction) of the political
spectrum.

Why aren't we being heard? The biggest reason is that
many of us are not talking; we are not talking loud
enough or often enough and we are not actively support-
ing human rights advocacy groups such as Women's Clin-
ics, NARL, Planned Parenthood etc., so they can shout
aloud for us.

Whether it's a CNN viewers comment or C-Span -- the
great majority of the voices heard are NOT OURS. Brian
Lamb of C-Span tries very hard to allow all callers an
opportunity to get their views heard. He started a
policy of taking calls in order, ie, have the caller
declare their Party affiliation: "Crats", "Pubs" or
"Indys". In an interview, he expressed his remorse
that even this did not work, because the callers of one
Party would ID themselves as Crats or Indy's and then
when they got on the air would show themselves as
mean-spirited Pubs.

So, OK. It is a fact that many Pubs have the money to
wait on the phone. They have the time also, but the
biggest factor is that they have the desire, the will
to drown us out -- and they are doing so. We don't
mean just on the national radio programs such as
Limbaugh. We mean everywhere. Check out the letters
to your local paper and see whose views predominate.
Are yours represented?

Nearly every town has a Talk-radio-show now. The great
majority of callers are anti-woman Pubs. That is where
the battle for your human rights is taking place every
single day and your views are heard only very seldom.
We do have some great columnists such as Molly Ivins or
Ellen Goodman but do we support their views with calls
to the Talk Radio programs or letters to the editor?

Face it. We are in trouble. The Senate is lacking
only 3 votes to remove part of YOUR body from your
control and put it in the hands of the political/reli-
gious terrorists. CNN reported that the *** majority
of Senators that have changed their vote in the last
couple of years are Catholic.*** They are reacting to
the demands of a religious/foreign principality and to
"public pressure", the "ground-swell" of the electorate
against a human right -- a woman's health and welfare.
WHERE IS OUR VOICE IN ALL OF THIS? Why is the Consti-
tution being ignored? Does it not still demand the
separation of church and state?

Goodman's column recently reiterated some things that
we should all be shouting out. "The bill is not really
about banning one abortion procedure. If D&X is the
first method banned without exceptions, it won't be the
last." Understand that the goal of the
political/religious factions is to *totally eliminate*
a woman's reproductive rights and freedom.

Recently the country of Iran elected a moderate for
their president. This country has no separation of
church and state -- religion controls. In this elec-
tion, young people and women formed a gendergap that
protested the extreme religions restrictions by elect-
ing a moderate.

We are informed that moderate in Iran does not mean the
same as moderate in our country. For example, one of
the reasons that this newly elected president is called
"moderate" is because he does not demand that his wife
get his permission before leaving the house.