Word: smeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will not rest, we will not stop, until all forces of violence against women are gotten rid of," said feminist leader Eleanor Smeal...
...fire bombings. Government officials and activists on both sides of the contentious abortion issue were quick to condemn the killings. "You don't use murder to solve the problem of other murder. It is heresy," said the Rev. Flip Benham, director of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority: "While there are two sides to the issue of abortion, there are no two sides to the issue of shooting people for their opinions...
Such omissions do not much comfort pro-choice advocates or those responsible for the approximately 1,500 increasingly beleaguered abortion clinics in the U.S."They've changed their tactics -- more harassment, more stalking, more violence," says Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority, who last Friday took part in a pro-choice demonstration at a Melbourne church surrounded by about 150 clinic defenders. One statement from a boot camp graduate aptly underscored the persistence of those who took the course. He remarked, "You can draw a lot of comparisons between the fight over abortion and slavery...
...donated money to women's groups and generally vented their outrage. "We will no longer beg for our rights from men in power. We will replace them and take power ourselves," Patricia Ireland, executive vice president of the National Organization for Women, told the Washington Post. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority: "The Senate did more in one week to underscore the critical need for more women in the Senate than feminists have been able to do in 25 years...
They stressed the higher purpose of her "historical" candidacy: the political advancement of women all over the country. The attacks against her were sexist, they said. The four implored her not to abandon hope, for she would bounce back; they were sure she would . . . Besides, Ellie Smeal recounted sympathetically, she too had undergone a hysterectomy not long before and so she understood full well why Feinstein did not then have fire in her belly -- because it was actually "burning" for all-too-real, physical reasons. At that, Feinstein had to laugh. "We left that dinner thinking 'She's really gutsy...