Bush vetoes women's rights

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President Bush's veto of the bill that Of course, the right to free speech and After Bush's veto, the extremists of would have lifted the gag rule on mention- the freedom of doctors to give all necessary Operation Rescue got a new shot in the ing abortion at federally funded family information to their patients were involved, arm and launched a new wave of attacks on planning clinics is one more indication of And although Bush claimed that free speech clinics.

trolled Congress to override the veto is was not involved because the Supreme other of our hard-won rights is self-defeatBoth parties of the rich are moving to it would be wrong tor us to accept the lib Unfortunately, there is no mass party of the right, as are their liberal and conserva- erals counterposing of the rights of free working people we could vote for. Even if tive wings. Moreover, the conservatives speech and abortion. We need both. have the initiative, with the liberals being If we were to rely on the Supreme Court our rights with the same methods through to define what our rights are, we would be which they were won-through indepenBush, for example, took the issue head in sad shape indeed. on, asserting that what was at stake was All our rights have been won in revolu- The next step for abortion rights fighters the right to abortion, which be opposes. tions (War for Independence and the Civil is to build massive, visible actions. The The liberals tried to fudge the issue, claim- War) and in great mass actions and mass- rich have to be forced to accept our rights. ing that what was at stake was not abortion supported defense cases. The same is true Let's start now to make the April 5, but the night of free speech, which was of the right to abortion, given a grudging 1992, action in washington, D.C., for "more fundamental." That way they hoped OK by the Supreme Court in 1973 in the abortion rights as big as possible. Let's act to get opponents of abortion to vote face of mass movements against the Viet- now to defend our abortion facilities from nam War and for Black and women's rights the violence of Operation Rescue.

MUSTHMILO UNANTED MEM VARNIO tives took the offensive against Anita Hill (remember the viciously misogynist Sen Specter shouting "perjury" at her), the liberals politely bleated. Then came the appointment of Thomas, who is against abortion rights and affirmative action, who was approved by the Democratic Senate Another example is the debate over affirCENSORED mative action. Bush blasts "quotas." But PEASUREP without quotas there is no affirmative acuon, Just pious senuments. wnal nave the liberals done? They run from this truth and capitulate, swearing they are not for quotas either.

This move to the right by the two capitalist parties encourages the extreme right.

David Duke talks about being a mainstream Republican, and he's not far off.

Placing any confidence in any of the EDITORIAL politicians of the rich-either men or women to defend abortion rights or any Court had already decided that it was not, ing.

there were, we would still have to defend dent political action in the streets.