{"id":3352,"date":"2012-01-22T12:34:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T19:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2012-01-22T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T19:34:32","slug":"blog-for-choice-day-what-will-you-do-to-help-elect-pro-choice-candidates-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2012\/01\/22\/blog-for-choice-day-what-will-you-do-to-help-elect-pro-choice-candidates-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog for Choice Day: What will *you* do to help elect pro-choice candidates in 2012?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prochoiceamerica.org\/get-involved\/online-day-of-action\/bfcd12-main.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prochoiceamerica.org\/assets\/images\/page-images\/social-media\/bfcd-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Today&#8217;s the anniversary or <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, and this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prochoiceamerica.org\/get-involved\/online-day-of-action\/bfcd12-main.html\">Blog for Choice Day<\/a> topic is &#8220;What will <em>you<\/em> do to help elect pro-choice candidates in 2012?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Stop me if you&#8217;ve heard this before, but reproductive rights remain under assault.\u00c2\u00a0 The Obama Administration&#8217;s hand-wringing before finally denying an religiously-affiliated hospitals an exemption from the requirement that they provide contraception, and the strident anti-choice rhetoric from all the Republican candidates, show just how far the window has shifted.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to move things back.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My vote and my volunteering time are &#8220;in play&#8221; in 2012.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Along with civil liberties and LGBTQ issues, one of the things I&#8217;m judging Obama, Cantwell, gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee and other candidates on is how assertively they&#8217;ll fight for women&#8217;s right to choose.<\/li>\n<li>And I&#8217;ll continue to raise awareness, with friends online and off, and discuss the issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, I get in people&#8217;s face when they make excuses for anti-choice politicians &#8212; or downplay the importance of the issue.\u00c2\u00a0 [I&#8217;m looking at <em>you<\/em>, Ron Paul supporters.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are <em>you<\/em> doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the anniversary or Roe v. Wade, and this year&#8217;s Blog for Choice Day topic is &#8220;What will you do to help elect pro-choice candidates in 2012?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Stop me if you&#8217;ve heard this before, but reproductive rights remain under assault.\u00c2\u00a0 The Obama Administration&#8217;s hand-wringing before finally denying an religiously-affiliated hospitals an exemption from the requirement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,49,148,269],"class_list":["post-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-bfcd","tag-blogforchoice","tag-feminism","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}