Word: equal
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Favors Equal Rights Amendment...
...Favors Equal Rights Amendment...
...Carter's opposition to medicaid funding of abortions draws similar low marks from groups like the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). Although Carter has stressed his sensitivity to women's issues throughout his campaign, NARAL doesn't buy it. "He cannot claim to be sensitive until he supports equal access for all women to abortions," says Sue Ellen Lowery of NARAL...
...Carter supporters have been frustrated by this year's non-endorsements, they are frightened by the strong support for the man they say women cannot view as a "serious candidate"--Ronald Reagan. Parroting Reagan and the Republicans' argument that not supporting the ERA is not equivalent with opposing equal rights, a small minority of articulate and intelligent women have hit the campaign trail for the former California governor...
...feminist forces wonder about the Phyllis Schlafly women-will-be-thrown-out-in-the-streets mentality, they can only shake their heads at Reagan supporters. "If the Republican party supports equal rights," Anne Wexler, a special assistant to Carter, asks, "why isn't it in their platform?" Incredulity is mixed with general fear; they know that anti-ERA support and the Right to Life movement run deep. While they ridicule measures like Reagan's promise to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, they privately fear the worst. And they desperately hope that the important issues--overt social and economic...