The Pro-Choice Message Raises the Roof at the Democratic National Convention

Nancy, RIGHT ON...I'm with you 100%!!

Watching Nancy Kennan at the DNC got my attention. I called my mother last night and told her " I wanna work for her!" It's very rare for me to be soo inspired by someone but i was. Her message was amazing and i just wanted to thank her for standing up for women's choices everywhere.

I fully support a woman's individual right to choose abortion as it is her body as are the evolving fetal tissues. No man has any right for any input on an individual matter.

You rock,Nancy. Great speech. Keep it up.

Thank you, Nancy Keenan, for speaking for women!
Excellent speech!

Nancy's speech was one of the strongest and most inspiring speeches I have heard in a long time! I am more proud than ever to me one of the members of NARAL...the right to choose, while only one issue, is one of the most important! I will gladly hang my brass badge #720 at the end of each day! Thank you NARAL, thank you Nancy!

Right ON!
As a family doctor, and women's advocate for over 30 years, I seriously hope and pray that America lets its people have the freedom to choose their own health care.

Electrifying speech Nancy; it gave me goosebumps all over! I am very proud to be a member of NARAL! You are awesome!

Excellent speech and all good points you make. I really don't think young women understand how difficult it would be for them if we were to return to the bad old days where women had no say so about their bodies, or had the right to vote, or not be owned by the men in their lives. They take it for granted because that is all they know. We do need to remind our young women and the men too, and remind that we want to go: FORWARD, NOT BACK!

Nancy and Sandra brought tears to my eyes and hope to my heart for women everywhere. Women everywhere, PLEASE get out and vote for President Obama and wise legislators on the state and local level.

Nancy's speech was amazing!!! Thank you Nancy and NARAL for your hard work on behalf of all women.

I am a woman in my late twenties, although in many ways I still feel like a young girl. Which is exactly what the Republican't party wants of me and is hoping that I will stay that way. In their minds I should leave the hard decisions about my body to them along with voting, finances and the owning of property BUT see that just doesn't sit well with me. The women who came before me, who were not much older than I, fought too hard for me to just sit idly by as my rights dwindle away! They fought for equality and personal ownership, they believed so whole-hardheartedly that woman deserved every right so freely bestowed upon their male counterparts. I am so grateful to the many women who have risked everything in the hope that we can make our own dreams a reality and I am so grateful for YOU, Nancy! Thank you for your strength and courage! Let's show those republicant's what we've got!

Mitt Romney does not care about a woman's plight especially women without much money who rely on assistance for birth control.
I think the number is 98%! of woman practice birth control sometime in their life. It IS and ALWAYS should be a woman's right. We CANNOT let him take that right and other rights away.

Thank you Nancy for an uplifting speech!!

It is, as the saying goes, perfectly clear, that Mitt Romney and his mechanic, Paul "Lyin" Ryan, have no regard for women, or minorities.

They would not only roll back Roe v Wade, but many other basic civil rights, which would deny most people who are not the ultra rich, from having a measure of comfort or self respect.

Romney and Ryan are not just wrong for America; they are Dangerous for America. They may indeed Love America, but they Hate Americans!

As Nancy said, speak to everyone, not just the women in your life, but everybody you can, and urge them to simply look at the records, look at the facts - which will not guide the Romney campaign - and decide for themselves just which party will lead us into a better future ... or drag us into disaster.

As a person who is staunchly pro-choice, I believe that all of this should go without saying and our basic human right to health care should exist in the absence of politics.

That said, there are more than two choices for president. I am so sick of the Democratic tactic of frightening us into voting 'not-Republican'. My vote shouldn't be held hostage to the false choice between my basic human right to healthcare, and other important ideals, like limiting executive powers and ending the war on drugs and de-commissioning privatized prisons and veteran care hospitals with long records of abuse. I want real transparency, not secret military tribunals and trade agreements that are years in the making before any congressperson has the right to see it - and privacy and in the 3D world. What happened to campaign reform and ending the revolving door. What happened to Lisa Jackson's lawsuit? Why was the EPA told to wait until after elections, reverting us back to pre-Bush era air quality standards? And why were anti-regulation Republican talking points used to justify this? This is not to mention all the abuses our regulatory agencies have been up to, like Ken Salazar's evil reign at the DoI. Where is Obama on stopping drilling in the arctic where beluga whales reproduce or re-listing wolves on the endangered species list or stopping our federally protected wild horses from being culled to sell as food in the EU or any number of things that the Democrats have been completely absent on. Why has there been almost no immigration reform until just before elections? And why did it take Gallop and Pew to make him come out in favor of marriage equality? Why have there been more whistleblower prosecutions than under previous presidencies? What was done about the confirmed anonymous letter from FDA officials seeking help to end corrupt practices? Why is our justice department overreaching, carrying out full military raids in other countries to prosecute business owner who are *seen as* competition for so-called Big Content, but are in fact not breaking any domestic or foreign laws by operating businesses that follow other US business models?

Don't get me wrong. Reproductive care is of prime importance. And the choices we make regarding that care, speaks to the heart of what it means to be healthy - biological reproduction is a strong evolutionary driver - and all humans, men included employ strategies to reproduction, to balance the trade-offs that come with our health choices. Those strategies are unique to individuals. So what we call 'choice' is one of the most basic fundamental human rights. We should have it in the bag. And yes, Republicans want to take that away. They think that a woman's health is important everywhere except where her bathing suit covers - somehow that area should be exempt. Breast and vaginas and ovaries exist in an alternate dimension where health is somehow not needed, and anything concerning those areas should be met with a fiscal boycott, and gag order - to let women know how truly shameful good Christians find their bodies. Yes, it's abhorrent. And yes, Democrats are ever, and will always be pro-choice....and they are best positioned to win.

But Democrats are just as invested in this turmoil as Republicans. Because otherwise there would be almost nothing to scare you into voting for them, rather than any number of third party candidates. They are just as guilty as denying you your basic human rights as Republicans, because they, like republicans have made this a moral issue, instead of a medical one. They've done it because it works for them at election time.

So why do we always have to cast a fear vote? Why can't we vote for someone holds ALL of our ideals, if such a person is on the ballot? Why can't I have the right to my own health choices AND be able to vote for someone who will not spend four years killing innocent civilians in Yemen with unmanned drone attacks? Why should we always be manipulated into siding with the perceived sure thing - the Democrat...the Anti-Republican, especially when that sure thing is only like-minded at election time and only on majority faction issues? Do you know why so many Democrats supported SOPA and ACTA and all the incarnates of the anti-privacy laws drafted by the MMPA? Because the oil, biotech, agricultural, AIPAC and prison lobbyist money had gone to their opponents. No one was left to give them a hand-out. Read the Steve Jobs biography, it's disgusting listening to him talk about how Obama made a personal visit to his house; how he broke it down for Obama; and how he read a list of changes he wanted to see! Where's my representation? I go to town hall meetings and lose the lottery to ask my congressperson a question regularly. Those that do, but disagree with him, are shooed away from the mic. They vote for your health for now, because it doesn't get in the way of their funding and because the opposition scares the bejezzus out of everyone. If a poll was released showing that most Americans felt abortion was immoral, suddenly they would announce that they feel conflicted. For them, for now, the war on women is win-win, so don't think they will want to change that.

Right and Left ideals fall along many different continuums. Taking a single issue and turning it into partisan politics is just courting the puppeteers, flirting with the left hand to the exclusion of the right will get you no where.

Wake-up America. There is more than one pro-choice candidate, endorse them all.

And while voting for another person might not get you a "win" in the short-term, you can be sure the your beloved party will stop sliding right in some feeble attempt to position themselves where they wrongly assume the independent vote can be captured. When you vote, remember you are voting the party no matter who the candidate is, or how much you relate, the party holds the purse strings and makes the rules. So maybe we should vote for parties with explicit, rather than ephemeral ideals on ALL the issues we care about.

Thank you Nancy for standing up for women everywhere and for that beautiful speach! How moving it was to hear about your father! My vote in November will be for Obama, as he seems to be one of very few men who truly sees that it is a woman's right to choose!!!