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Women's Rights: Freedom in the 21st Century by Lorie Cohen Rowley

With an election around the corner and a male conservative chorus chanting, "We know what is best for women," women have a reason to be concerned and outraged.

More than a century after women crossed the suffrage line and cast their first

political vote, they still find themselves fighting for freedom and equality.   With

an election around the corner and a male conservative chorus chanting, "We know

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what is best for women," women have a reason to be concerned and outraged

 

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This is a crucial time for women, one in which the progress they have made and

the path they have chosen to ensure equality for themselves is being booby-

trapped by religious zealots. 

 

To paraphrase Karen Armstrong, academic scholar on Middle-Eastern religions,

"Extremism in any form is dangerous since extremists are unable to see beyond

 rigid boundaries that prohibit compromise. "  This is precisely the reason that our

forefathers and mothers left their place of birth and founded a nation in which

separation of church and state was enacted into law.

 

Women need to pay attention to the rhetoric of both parties, especially

when it comes to demeaning women and their rights.   We did not walk this far

and take risks and accomplish what many deemed impossible to be blocked by

prejudice and ignorance. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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