A Note to My Sisters...

Women… Sarah Palin is NOT your friend.

I can’t tell you how many former Hillary Clinton supporters I’ve heard say that they will now vote for John McCain because of Sarah Palin.

Let me be perfectly clear that Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton could not be more different unless Sarah Palin were actually George W. Bush.

Let me be blunt here for a moment do demonstrate to you what your life may be under Sarah Palin…

You are abducted from your parking garage as you walk to your car and are repeatedly raped. Raped by several men. You have a bag over your head, so you can identify NONE of them.

When you are released, you stagger to a phone and call 9-1-1. You are taken to a hospital, where what police call a “rape kit” is performed on you. This is what they use to collect evidence. You are not given the option of “emergency contraception” because it has been banned by law. (Hospitals are already, under the Bush administration, discouraged from giving these out in the case of rape.)

As you leave the hospital you are handed a bill for $1200 to pay for the rape kit. (Sarah Palin instituted this law in Wasilla, Alaska when she was Mayor to “save the taxpayers money”.)

Two months later, horrors are multiplied when you discover that you are pregnant by one of your attackers. Do you want to have this baby? Of course not. Not only would it remind you every day of your attack, but a child would totally disrupt your job, your life and your finances. But you have no choice. You are required by law to either bear this child or seek a dangerous back-alley abortion. (Sarah Palin opposes abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.)

Please, please, PLEASE women… do not vote for Sarah Palin simply because you share the same reproductive organs. She is not your friend… she is not going to protect your rights… she is going to destroy them.

Peace

Randal