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EMILY's List: Confronting the Growing Ambivalence Over Abortion
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyOne of the issues that arose in a recent e-mail chain among the writers who contribute to WomanUp was regret that an organization like Emily's List, which helps elect Democratic women, only supports candidates who are pro-choice: "I believe there are other issues that are very important to women. So let's say a woman happens to be not pro-choice, but is pro everything else. Why exclude her?" It's a good question, and the answer dates back to the founding of Emily's List in 1985. At the time very few women held public office, and attitudes toward abortion rights divided sharply along political ...
EMILY'S List: 25 Years of Funding Pro-Choice Democratic Women
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyIt's feminist torch-passing time. Ellen Malcolm, 63, the Rolodex-reliant founding president of EMILY's List -- which has bundled $78 million in campaign donations since 1985 and helped elect 95 pro-choice Democratic women to the Senate and House -- gave a rousing valedictory Thursday before embracing her successor. That would be Stephanie Schriock, 37, the tweeting Facebooker who as Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign finance director pushed the Internet envelope to help create donor and social networks that raked in $52 million, and later managed the long-shot victories of Sens. John ...
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