NOW Backpedals On Yates Support

	posted by Nightmist on Friday September 07, @04:12PM from the news dept.
	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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We Need More Of This. by DanCurry on Saturday September 08, @04:09AM EST (#1) (User #245 Info) I'd like to see a large group of women married to men getting screwed by the Family Law System protesting at every N.O.W. get together arcoss this Country. N.O.W.'s support of laws that cater to some women with children while ignoring the second wives and their children reeks of double standards. Current law literally take food out to the mouths of some or many children to feed the profits of greedy Counties and the Judges often order payments that are unlawfully high. Death to the current family law systems that targets most men wife beaters and abusers. Dan Curry DanCurry.Com

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