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Describing the unequal treatment of women in the areas of education, Social Security and compensation for discrimination, Michelman said women's rights are "under assault on every front... Women are no longer able to work [even] for small steps forward...
Decrying right-wing "demonization" of women, Michelman said that the "New Right" has managed to portray feminists as "confused, selfish and anti-family...[while] equality and respect remain but a distant dream...
Citing such incidents as the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the veto of the Family Leave Act and denial of abortion funding for rape victims on Medicaid, Michelman called President Bush "the most anti-woman president in our nation's history...
...Michelman called on women to "use the power to vote to [protect] our freedom," especially on the "right to choose," which she named "the single most powerful politically charged social issue [of today...
...Wade decision "gave women control over our futures," Michelman said. "Women will never achieve equality without the right to choose...