NOW Backpedals On Yates Support

In a move apparently prompted by a group of 19 (mostly female) prostesters outside NOW's Washington headquarters, the group is backpedaling on its previous statement that it will raise funds for the defense of Andrea Yates, the woman who drowned her five children in the bathtub and is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. The story in the Washington Times quotes some of the protesters.  "I don't think we should make excuses for murder," said Bishop Imagene Stewart, who represented the African American Women's Clergy Association at the rally. "If we let her get away with this, other women--who are mad at their husbands--will do it too, and just plead insanity." The mostly female group of demonstrators hoisted signs like "Pro-Woman, Pro-Choice, Pro-Drowning?" and "NOW does not speak for me."

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