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Harper's Maternal & Child Health Strategy

Submitted by Frieda Werden (not verified) on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 5:41am.

Thank you very much for this article, Judy. I agree with all you say, here are angles that occurred to me:

1. George W used a women strategy as political cover for his invasion of Afghanistan. It sort of worked, in that for example Hillary as a Senator held hearings in support of Afghani women that didn't say that war was a bad approach, and some though not all US women's groups lent their credibility to the administration. Harper seems to pull a lot from W's playbook.

2. In the article I read, the headline said maternal & child health, but the quote emphasized the children, not the mothers. Ask Harper if he supports "safe motherhood," which the Vatican seems to take as UN code for also making birth control and abortion available to women in developing countries.

3. The non-partisan League of Women Voters long organized US candidate debates, but the TV networks took them away from the LWV and changed the format to limit the debates to only two parties and give them the network spin. If we want Canadian debates in women's hands, we have to have a strategy for the media front.

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