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...assess the political fallout from the abortion conflict, Washington Correspondent Jeanne Saddler interviewed Eleanor Smeal, the pro-abortion president of the National Organization for Women, and Carl Anderson, a legislative aide to pro-life Senator Jesse Helms. Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan returned to Albany, where she reported her first abortion story in 1977. "In four years," says Dolan, "abortion politics in Albany has moved from a personal ideological discussion to a major issue in the women's movement and now to a partisan political confrontation." Correspondent Evan Thomas interviewed legal scholars about the constitutional implications of antiabortion legislation...
...inflation-many middle-class women, the burden of an extra child is something they and their entire family may well find destructive. The right to seek an abortion gives women an element of freedom and control over their lives that men have always had. Says NOW'S Eleanor Smeal of those in Washington who would usurp this freedom: "They are getting Government off the backs of Big Business and putting it into the lives of women...
...turned out, most of the women, along with many men who were sympathetic to their stand, stuck together. The message spread by NOW President Eleanor Smeal got across that fifty-fifty means nothing if women can't move the party forward. In this spirit, Carter delegates, especially members of the National Education Association, began defecting from the President's position that denying funds to anti-ERA candidates would help Republicans and hurt Democrats, especially in the South. Said Wisconsin Delegate Virginia Foley: "We've got to put our money where our mouth is. Obviously, what we have...
...National Organization for Women, argued: "If men fight, women fight. But it is highly inappropriate to ask women to register and maybe be drafted to defend the Constitution when women are not, in fact, included in the Constitution. I think: no ERA, no draft." But other feminists, including Eleanor Smeal, the current president of NOW, refused to link the draft with passage of the ERA. Said she: "We are full citizens, and we should serve in every way." In a similar vein, the Atlanta chapter of NOW urged Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia to support "only that legislation which...
...scoring began with 10:17 remaining in the first half, when Maggi Smeal, whose hard-nosed defense terrorized Harvard forwards all day, dribbled the ball past Crimson goalie Betty Ippolito...