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When Ontario’s premier turned down Sharia law last month, he left a melange of activists–campaign leader Homa Arjomand, writer Margaret Atwood, parliamentarians and the Toronto YWCA–savoring a victory fought on many fronts.
The proposal for the federal budget for 2006 released this week contains billions of dollars of cuts in Medicaid funding and a restructuring of the health care program that would put millions of American women at risk.
Federal protection of abortion could easily be put at risk by a second Bush term. That’s why women should pay vigorous attention to abortion policy in their states, where anti-abortion activists have been furiously at work.