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The Reagan administration, in its continuing terrorist war against women, is asking the Supreme Court to do away with the constitutional right to abortion.

Last month Attorney General Edwin Meese requested the Supreme Court to reverse its 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision. The court ruling had stated that the NEW YORK-The dominant ideology in any society, according to Karl Marx, is the ideology of the ruling class. Here, as in the rest of the country, capitalist ideology lays down the line for the lawmakers, the educational system, and the news and entertainment media. And most people, most of the time, accept it as naturally as they accept sugar in their breakfast cereal.

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These are expressed in editorials. decision to end pregnancy was a "fundamental right of privacy" and therefore protected by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

At the time of the 1973 decision, in most states, women who obtained abortions and doctors who performed the operations faced criminal penalties. Now, using the legal gimmick of "states' rights," Meese has asked the Supreme Court to "return the law to the are notorious for voting against every bill designed to increase social aid to low-income women and children such as childcare, medical aid, nutrition, and school lunch programs.

It is obvious by their actions that while the "pro-lifers" believe that life begins at conception, they also believe that it ends at birth.

I suspect that their hatred stems from the fact they have discovered that children are not delivered by the stork but are actually the result of SEX! And you know what SEX is. It is something to be punished and so the result of SEX is the right-wing rulers of this country to get away with whittling away our rights. If he is successful, what will be next? Our right to vote?

The only way to protect our right "to choose" and all of the other rights we have gained, is by going out into the streets of this country by the thousands and millions and expressing our outrage at being abused by a sexist government. Women's organizations must answer this threat with a call to action. We will not be driven back into the hands of the back-alley abortion butchers of this country.

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