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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Well said Karen.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 26, 2020, at 14:34, kmedina67 via Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you, Lois.</div><div class="">And, I would add that women's reproductive rights, or lack of rights, affect the poor the most. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just as slave owners legally owned the bodies, controlled the reproduction, and limited education for generations, so has the Catholic church created a power class to manipulate and interfere with women, especially poor women, gaining power over their own bodies and their reproduction. It has been quite effective at limiting the role of women to that of mother, thereby thwarting any chance of gaining time and energy for education. Classism.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div id="composer_signature" class=""><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" class="">- Karen Medina</div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" class="">"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great" - Mark Twain</div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" class=""><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Peace mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">Peace@lists.chambana.net</a><br class="">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>