19. FOR ABORTION RIGHTS? THEN THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON
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�Members of Congress and women's groups are asking long-time Bush
�adviser Karen Hughes to apologize for remarks they say "liken
�abortion rights advocates to those in the 'terror network'." As
�hundreds of thousands rallied for reproductive rights in Washington
�DC on Sunday, Hughes told CNN: "I think that after September 11,
�the American people are valuing life more and realizing that we
�need policies to value the dignity and worth of every life...
�particularly at a time when we're facing an enemy, and really the
�fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight
�is that we value every life." Women's groups are changing their
�message and tactics, reports the Wall Street Journal: "To counter
�abortion foes' use of the pulpit, they are mining college campuses
�for grass-roots organizational heft."
SOURCE: Reuters, April 27, 2004
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5. SCHWARZENEGGER'S MORE FEMINIST SIDE
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�PR Week's Douglas Quenqua asks: "Of the three men honored by a
�women's-empowerment group in Los Angeles last week for their
�'support and advocacy of the issues that are important to women,'
�how many... have publicly mused over his great fortune at getting
�to stick a woman's face in the toilet?" If you guessed just one -
�named Arnold Schwarzenegger - you're correct. The W.O.M.E.N group
�(Women Organized for Mentoring, Education and Networking) honored
�the Governator for "his promotion of after-school programs."
�According to a spokesperson, the group had "no discussion" of the
�more than a dozen sexual harassment charges and at least one
�pending lawsuit leveled against Schwarzenegger. Quenqua wonders:
�"Did the muscle man exert some influence... to get rubbed the right
�way, PR-wise?"
SOURCE: PR Week, May 3, 2004
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11. MAYDAY FOR GI JANES!
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�A Freedom of Information Act request revealed that Selective
�Service System acting Director Lewis Brodsky, in a February 2003
�proposal to Pentagon officials, recommended that the draft "be
�re-engineered toward maintaining a national inventory of American
�men and, for the first time, women, ages 18 through 34, with an
�added focus on identifying individuals with critical skills." The
�agency's public and congressional affairs director noted that they
�"would have 'to market the concept' of a female draft to Congress."
�After the document release, a Selective Service spokesperson called
�the proposal mere "food for thought." But the agency did admit that
�it "has begun designing procedures for a targeted registration and
�draft of people with computer and language skills."
SOURCE: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 1, 2004
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