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March 29, 2005
Not content to misuse congressional authority for an 11th hour intervention into a single family's private medical decisions, right-wing leaders across the country are seeking more ways to violate the nation's laws and our personal freedoms in order to impose their will on Americans. Although we must respect deeply held religious beliefs, this does not include allowing extremists to run rough shod over all constitutional principles.
- Right-wing leaders are willing to jettison any law or principle to impose their selective morality on Americans. There seems to be no limit to what the extremists will do to impose their will on the country. Right-wing leaders across the spectrum called upon Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to throw aside the state's constitution and use the police powers of the state to forcibly take control of Terri Schiavo. Conservatives talk of the sanctity of marriage and then intervened to violate the spousal rights of a single family. Congressional leaders willingly tossed aside constitutional principles to politicize a family tragedy for political gain. The abuse of power is boundless. As Majority Leader Tom DeLay stated last week about the Schiavo case, "We can do anything we need to do to pass any bill that we need to pass."
- Right-wing activists will go to any length to threaten Americans who disagree with their beliefs. The Washington Post reported yesterday that at least eleven states are considering (and fours have passed) laws that would exempt pharmacists from having to fill prescriptions for birth control, emergency contraception, or any other medication they decided violated their system of personal belief, even when that refusal directly endangers a patient's health or rights. In Kansas, attorney general and "ardent abortion opponent" Phill Kline has requested the medical records of 90 women from two Kansas abortion clinics, including the prior sexual and medical history of patients.
- Politicians have no right meddling in our personal affairs and private medical decisions. Right-wing leaders don't care about your privacy and will do anything – including violating long standing constitutional and moral principles – to impose their way of thinking on unsuspecting Americans. Americans must stand strong in defense of personal freedom and against the encroachment of religious and political extremists.
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