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They Said..., We Say...
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Letters to the Editor About Abortion
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| Answering anti-abortion
arguments, challenging their deliberate misrepresentations
and lies, and doing it with an Attitude! |
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That's Attitude with a capital
A you know!!
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Read these antiabortion letters and our
responses
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We encourage abortion rights supporters
across the country to learn more
about the critical issues around reproductive health care
and abortion
rights and then to speak out, boldly challenging antiabortion
extremists.
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| Consistent with Life
and Liberty for Women's desire to be proactive
in our educational efforts and deliver a more forthright
and challenging message about abortion rights, we
want to encourage abortion rights supporters across
the country to learn more about the critical issues
around reproductive health care and abortion rights
and then speak out, boldly challenging antiabortion
extremists. We believe that it's not enough to simply
layout antiabortion arguments and our response in
a few sentences. We believe that a much more valuable
teaching tool is actual letters to the editor that
I and Life and Liberty for Women
board members have authored. You will find our letters
to the editor and op-ed commentaries, whether initiated
by us or written in response to antiabortion letters
to be different, refreshing and challenging of the
antiabortion lies, distortions, and deliberate misrepresentations.
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| You will find our challenges
to be packed with Attitude that's Attitude with
a capital A. |
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| Women need not ever
be ashamed of their right to life and liberty
that Roe vs. Wade correctly and morally balanced
with that of the fetus. That means we must mount
a defense of Roe that is forthright, strong, bold,
unwavering, and which displays an Attitude - An
Attitude with an A. |
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| Since our inception
in 2000, we have written well over 100 letters
to the editor in several local northern Colorado
newspapers and The Colorado Statesman, a weekly
political newspaper. Our aggressive, consistent,
constant, and ever so challenging letters have
silenced anti-abortion extremists. You will now
find their letters of baby killing and "thou
shalt not kill" rhetoric far and few in between
in these newspapers. We have - in no uncertain
terms shut them down!! |
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| Our aggressive and consistent
challenge forced the Loveland Colorado Reporter
Herald to change their letter writing policy twice
since 2001. |
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| The newspaper imposed
two moratoriums the second one in January 2003 was
an indefinite moratorium. We wrote to the Fort Collins
Coloradoan - a city just 10 miles from Loveland,
and complained. Just a few days before that letter
appeared, and knowing it was going to appear, The
Loveland Reporter Herald lifted the moratorium.
They said they received threats and complaints from
anti-abortion forces in this Bible belt community.
They have since treated us unfairly in the number
of words we write compared to their stated policy.
We are documenting these instances of unfair treatment
and at some point they will either cease and desist
- or we will seek legal action. |
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| We evidence and document
our position and we take a very critical use of
their evidence and point our the many flaws with
their evidence, their conclusions, their reasoning
and their position. We CHALLENGE them and they clearly
don't like it. They clearly aren't prepared for
it. They clearly can't defend against it. |
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| We don't take personal
attacks personally. We get even by destroying
their reasoning an evidence and backing them into
a corner. They don't like it. We are here to stay
- I'd say to them - get over it. |
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| We hope reading our
letters to the editor will inspire and encourage
you to write your own letters to the editor in
your local community, letters with an Attitude.
We give our permission and encourage you to use,
even verbatim, our writings and pen them under
your own name because what is most critical here
is getting the correct information out to as many
persons as possible. |
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| Additionally, we invite
and encourage you to contact us at anytime for
any help, guidance, or evidence you might need
in formulating your letters to the editor in the
new proactive Attitude with a capital A tradition
that Life and Liberty for Women
is proud to be the sponsor of. We are always available
to answer your questions and help you with factual
and statistical evidence gathering and we can
give you guidance in composing your letter to
the editor or op-ed commentary. |
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We invite and encourage you to contact us
at anytime for any help, guidance,
or evidence you might need in formulating your letters to
the editor.
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| If antiabortion lies,
distortions, and misrepresentations make you livid
and if their baby-killing rhetoric that ignores
the horrific sights and sounds of illegal abortion
which serves only to harm and kill women without
saving babies makes you livid - then do something
about it!! |
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| Even those persons who
have never written a letter to the editor in their
life can draw upon their sense of outrage and make
today the day they write their first letter. Our
help, support and encouragement are only a fax,
a phone call, an email, or snail-mail away. For
every abortion rights supporter out there, there
is one particular issue and or angle that they personally
feel compelled to speak to and we encourage each
and everyone of you to get involved in protecting
the legal right and access to safe abortion and
contraceptive services. |
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| It's time we challenged
antiabortion extremists - go on the offensive be
proactive and do it with an Attitude, that's Attitude
with an A. It's an Attitude not heard or seen within
the abortion rights community in many years. |
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| Write us, call us, email
us, or fax us with your questions or requests
for help and feedback on your letters to the editor.
Our response will be prompt. And be sure to send
us copies of your writings with an Attitude that
appear in your local paper. We may want to feature
them in these web site pages!! |
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| In advance, let me take
this opportunity to let you know that those who
are courageous enough to join us in this bold
new effort - that is displaying an Attitude -
Attitude with an A - when challenging the lies,
distortions and misrepresentations of antiabortion
extremists - we honor you as a special friend
of abortion rights and a brave defender of both
a woman and a fetus's right to life and liberty.
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Peggy Loonan,
Founder and Executive Director
Life and Liberty for Women
PO Box 271778
Fort Collins, CO 80527-1778
(970) 416-6872
Fax (970) 416-0963 peggy@lifeandlibertyforwomen.org
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