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The Metropolitan Louisville Women’s Political Caucus to Hear The Honorable Dolores Delahanty, Famed Kentucky Feminist and Political Activist(info from Virginia Woodward)

WHEN WOMEN VOTE WOMEN WIN

The Metropolitan Louisville Women’s Political Caucus

Invites you to join us

Thursday, October 15, 2009

5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

City Café – 505 West Broadway

Featuring

The Honorable Dolores Delahanty

(former Commissioner, candidate for Congress and founding mother of the KWPC and the MLWPC)

The meeting is FREE and open to all. Hors d’ oeuvres will be available for $10. Cash Bar. Please make your reservation with Angie Wallace at [email protected]

The purpose of the Metropolitan Louisville Women’s Political Caucus (MLWPC) is to increase women’s participation in the political process and to identify, recruit, train and support feminist women for election and appointment to public office

“Personhood” Legislation Chips Away at Women’s Rights, reports The Progressive

Opponents of abortion are backing legislation across the country that would give legal rights to embryos from the instant of conception.

These efforts might be wrapped up in the rhetoric of dignity, but make no mistake: “Personhood” laws would weaken women’s rights.

This week, anti-abortion activists in Missouri launched their campaign for “personhood” for fertilized eggs. The Missouri campaign follows on the heels of efforts to create a “personhood’ amendment in Colorado and Florida.

These proposals would ban abortion in all cases, including incest and rape, and criminalize some forms of contraception.

Read more: The Progressive