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NEWS & LETTERS, March 2004Women Worldwideby Mary Jo Grey For the second time this year, Bush took advantage of a Congressional recess to override outspoken opposition, Feb. 20, and sneak in the appointment of a right-wing judge to the federal appeals court. While Alabama attorney general, William H. Pryor Jr. was a rabid opponent of legalized abortion and advocated greater fundamentalist Christian influence in government. In an argument before the U.S. Supreme Court, he insisted that if a Texas law outlawing sex between homosexuals was overturned, it would open the way for legalized "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography and even incest and pedophilia." Pryor will serve on the appeals court until at least the fall of 2005. * * * The fifth Global Women's Strike is set for International Women's Day. It has brought together women in over 60 countries demanding a world that values all women's work and every life. It has been part of a movement against war and occupation, and called for military budgets to be used for basic survival needs--water, food, health care, housing, education and safety from domestic violence. |
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