So this is progress? Stephanie writes:

Well, regardless, it has me thinking ... Kos rants and raves about the curse of single issue groups like NARAL and perhaps he even makes a decent point ... but what I'm starting to realize is that the curse of coalitions and parties is this: they can drop your cause at a moment's notice. That makes me a bit nervous, especially when even Hillary has been pandering.

And they wonder why we don't just fall in line ...

UPDATE: I've finally located the Democratic party platforms from 2000 and from 2004 - thanks to Diane at MoJo blog. Both are pdfs:

2004 Democratic National Platform

2000 Democratic National Platform

Indeed, the ERA has been removed. Though to their credit, Ted Kennedy and Carolyn Maloney did go through the motions of introducing ERA legislation in congress earlier this year. But I'd still like to know why it was removed from the official platform.

And here you thought it all was only about reproductive rights? Apparently, equal protection under the law is no longer a fundamental value for the Democrats.

On MoJo, Diane E. Dees writes:

Most Americans are not white males, a fact the Democratic Party seems to have missed. And the gains made by the feminist movement (far from the gains that needed to be made) are being chipped away day by day, another glaring fact ignored by the party. So misguided are the Democrats about women's issues that at their last convention, they had a number of Democratic female senators make a kind of chorus girl run onto the stage so convention attendees could applaud them and feel good about themselves. The worst part was that the female senators agreed to put on this display of light-headed cuteness.

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The issue of whether American women should have control over their own bodies, one of dozens of vital issues that affect women, is at the forefront again because of the current carving away of Roe v. Wade, and the mad ravings of pharmacists gone wild, who are busy making unscientific, unethical, and just plain misogynistic decisions about who takes which drugs. But not to worry. Because we can always frame this hysteria over whether right-wing religious men in bad suits and pharmacy coats take over the bodies of women by calling the frightened women a "single issue group" and assuring the Democratic Party that our casue is not a "core principle."

Democrats, where are you going?

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