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Is Laura Bush a feminist?

Rachel Campos-Duffy — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:30:02 +0000

Sewall-Belmont House is a museum dedicated to advancing women and every year they honor a woman for that purpose. Past recipients include Katie Couric, Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton. This year, the board picked former First Lady, Laura Bush, but feminists across the country are hopping mad and twenty-one of them sent a letter of protest to the current board. One of the many prominent feminist signatories, Sonia Pressman-Fuentes, a former board member of the museum and co-founder of NOW (the National Organization of Women), says, “It’s not partisan. I’m not complaining that she’s a Republican. I’m complaining that she’s never done anything for women to get this award.”

Apparently speaking out against the subjugation and abuse endured by Afghani girls and women means nothing if it doesn’t include a plan to bring free birth control to the victims. And using her platform as a First Lady to bring global awareness to the plight of Muslim women during trips to the Middle East or as Mrs. Bush did in a touching op-ed for the Washington Post doesn’t count as “advancing women” for the abortion-obsessed feminist enforcers at NOW.

Sewall-Belmont House Museum took an important step toward expanding the definition of feminism. But until the old guard in ivory towers and the board rooms of NOW catch up, young, successful women will continue to perceive the feminist movement as an irrelevant blast from the past.

8 year-old Afghan girl tricked into carrying bomb

Rachel Campos-Duffy — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:36:38 +0000

This headline should tell us all we need to know about the kind of people our brave troops are fighting in Afghanistan. Sadly this child’s fate is not an aberration. The abuse and humiliation of women and children is all too common in this culture. It is a barbarism that is difficult for us to comprehend. Were it not for pictures and videos we might not even believe it.

Aisha received a prosthetic nose in October 2010

Who can ever forget the haunting picture of the beautiful young Aisha who the Taliban ordered her nose and ears cut off for trying to flee her abusive husband? Or the heartbreaking stories of girls who have had acid thrown in their face on their way to school? And the countless victims of sexual assault who suffer quietly lest they be blamed and stoned instead.

Here is a video of Taliban abuse of women and children (warning some images difficult to watch): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpo6tQF3uE4

Though I personally have misgivings about the scope of our involvement in Afghanistan, I continue to pray and hope that good will come of it – especially for the women and girls living under the Taliban’s cruel and misogynistic rule.

As Christians and Catholics we can take solace in knowing that by now, this innocent little child is finally safe in the arms of our Lord and his loving Mother. May the plight of the children and women of Afghanistan always remain in our prayers.

Shock Stat: Abortion Has Caused 300K Breast Cancer Deaths Since Roe

Thomas Peters — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:07:50 +0000

Pro-abortion feminists often say that abortion has saved countless lives. Putting aside for a moment the fact that abortion always takes the life of an innocent little baby, a new study reveals how many lives of mothers abortion has taken:

A leading breast cancer researcher says abortion has caused at least 300,000 cases of breast cancer causing a woman’s death since the Supreme Court allowed virtually unlimited abortion in its 1973 case.

With tens of millions of abortions since the high court’s decision and research confirming abortion increases the risk of contracting breast cancer, undoubtedly a large number of breast cancer cases, caused by abortion, have occurred over the last 38 years. [LifeNews]

My question to the pro-abortion feminists is … was it worth it?