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Past research has indicated that forcing a woman to view an ultrasound before she has an abortion did not change her mind, and now this report shows that other state laws adding barriers to abortion services do not help women either” QUESTION: what do you think?
Amanda Peterson Beadle, Think Progress
This is sooooo easy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the right thing in a time when too many wrongs going on
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
- Speech following Super Tuesday results, Feb 5, 2008. - Barack Obama
laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times” - Thomas Jefferson
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
- Barack Obama
There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America — there is the United States of America” - Barack Obama
The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them.”
- speech, Jun. 4, 2005 - Barack Obama
