Two liberals blow their cover

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"Arrest them immediately. They're blocking the entrance to ouroffice"

Dianne Feinstein, a former mayor of San Francisco, is running for governor of California. To garner votes, she masquerades as a feminist and liberal. But since most capitalist politicians want the votes of those on both sides of most questions, she has "modified" her position on abortion.

Feinstein was quoted in The Los Angeles Times last week decrying sex selection as an "abuse" of the right to choose to have an abortion and added that "if it became a major problem in California, I might very well sign such a bill [to stop abortions intended as sex-selection]."

The anti-abortion forces have initiated an uproar over an imaginary problem of abortions being done to avoid bearing a child of an unwanted sex. And now there is a bill in the California Assembly to prohibit such abortions. It was put there by the anti-abortion nuts to create the impression that women "U.S. Out!" has been the cry in recent demonstrations and strikes in the Philippines. The Pentagon wants to keep its military bases there. In return, it has promised to supply the Cory Aquino government with more military hardware that could be used against the guerrillas of the National Peoples Army By who choose to terminate a pregnancy do so frivolously.

Every single hospital, clinic, and tamily-planning center in the country has stated over and over again that there is absolutely no evidence of such abortions! And the anti-abortion forces have been unable to come up with any.

The China ruse Dianne Feinstein has seized on this issue to win a few votes from anti-abortionists. Grasping for evidence that such abortions are a problem, she cites China as a country which allows sex-selection abortions. But this fake story was spread by U. S. government officials. It was used to justify the U.S. government's cutting-off millions of dollars to the United Nations for birth-control programs in underdeveloped countries.

China does have a two-child-perfamily policy and allows legal abortion on demand. But there is not an iota of proof that sex selection is part of their policy. The Chinese government are no angels. But a poor country which is hard-pressed to supply any form of birth control for its population could hardly afford to provide abortions for the frivolous purpose of sex-selection, too.

Actually we shouldn't blame Feinstein alone. She is just another capitalist politician trying to rake in voters. All capitalist politicians would break strikes while claiming to be pro-worker, cut medical care for the poor while claiming to be for good healthcare for all, and replace affordable housing with luxury condos while crying crocodile tears for the homeless.

Yet another "study!"

One of their tricks, when they have no answer to any social or political problem, is to vote to "study" it. I wish I had a nickel for every time they have voted to "study" child-care, affirmative action, education, housing, or pollution.

The quintessential example of this method came out in a letter of May 3 to The New York Times from Colorado Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder. Pat Schroeder is also a self-described liberal Democrat, who also wants to get votes on both sides of the abortion issue.

Schroeder, along with Maine Congresswoman Olympia J. Snowe —who is against abortion rightsare co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues. This body, Schroeder proudly acknowledges, has taken no position on abortion since 1977.

This phony "feminist" wrote that she and her anti-abortion colleagues on the Congressional Caucus have found "common ground in our support for reducing the number of unintended pregnancies through family-planning and contraceptive research, thereby reducing the need for abortions."

She went on to announce that she and her anti-abortion colleagues are introducing a bill, the Contraceptive and Infertility Research Centers Act, which would create three contraceptive and two fertility research centers to operate under the auspices of the National Institute of Health.

STOP UNWANTED BIRTHS of NPA fighters from all over the country. Suddenly, the army attacked the gathering with bombs.

'It was like a Grade B movie," Wild told me. "And I was in the middle of it." The guerrillas and Wild escaped into the surrounding mountains, where the local people fed and sheltered them.

Sound good? No! It it will be years, if ever, before these "studies" produce any real help for poor women who desperately need all the technical assistance required to guarantee that every child is a wanted child. But worst of all, she covers up for the anti-choice fanatics by joining her anti-abortion colleague on contraception and other issues, thereby diluting the focus on abortion rights.

Abortion is central to the elementary right of a woman-and the woman alone-to choose and is the focus of the current attack on women's reproductive rights. That's why the movement to keep it safe, legal, and accessible must keep up its guard—not only against its avowed enemies, but also against all its double-dealing "friends." in Wild's film.

"If the contradictions of the Aquino regime had not been clear before," Wild told me, "they certainly were now. At that point, we began filming."

"As bad as under Marcos"

Unfortunately, the scope of the