I am deeply saddened to read many comments here and on other diaries, which are so caught up in Hillary versus Obama, that everyone seems to forget what NARAL is about.  

At 60+ I am older than most of you I think.  
I doubt many of you ever knew a woman who died from a back alley abortion.  I knew three.

I'm reading comments in diaries here that have made me so upset recently, that I was not sure I would continue to read here.
My blood pressure is high enough as it is.  

But this is MyDD - and we are all Democrats.  
Whether supporters of HRC, BHO, John Edwards or others, what is supposed to hold us together is our party and the battle to win against McCain in the fall.

The Democratic Party has changed since I was a child in the late 40's & 50's.  

Will black, red, & brown folks just get so disgusted that they will say the hell with this country - and just stay home?

As a cultural anthropologist, I would like to share some ethnographic data, collected from people who identify as Democrats, who also self-identify as people of color.  These are not netcitizens, and they were from the working class.
This is not a scientific study; just anecdotal evidence.
I am not writing this in academic language and have refrained from using the jargon of my discipline.

Okay. She decided to go there.  

She decided to pile on to the Bill Ayers smear. The guilt by association, new kitchen sink strategy against Senator Obama, artfully suggesting (to the supers) that he would be hit with these purportedly terrible things in the general.  So she wants us to believe she's doing him a favor - vetting him now.

I suggest we all take a look at what would be waiting for Senator Clinton, related not only to the Weather Underground, but to the FALN, Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, if she should overturn Obama's nomination via the super delegates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1SovbQR0 jE

Was amazed to log on and find a slew of diaries and comment's attacking Barack Obama for pointing out that regular people - you know, working class and hard-pressed middle class folks are having a tough time in today's economy, and are bitter about it.  Actually bitter, IMHO is too soft a word; pissed off and angry, worried and frightened is more like it.

Was almost amused at the attacks on Senator Obama for being an elitist, except it isn't really funny.  Of the three people running for office, only one has known economic hard times;  Barack Obama.  Granted, he is now upper middle class, but certainly can't be counted as part of the multi-millionaire crowd.

Made me curious about who posts here.  Hence the poll.

I would like to applaud the positions taken by both candidates for the Democratic Party nomination, on the AIDS pandemic, both at home and globally.

Contrast this with John McCain cited today in the NY Times:
"MCCain Stumbles on HIV Prevention"
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/ 03/16/mccain-stumbles-on-hiv-prevention/

Though most of the buzz today is about the endorsement of Senator Obama by Senator Bob Casey, for football fans in PA, what may have more significance is his endorsement by legendary
Franco Harris; Hall of Famer, former Pittsburgh Steeler & Nittany Lion, known thoughout the football world for the "Immaculate Reception".

Franco shares a bi-racial heritage with Barack. His African-American father, met his Italian mother in Italy at the end of World War II.

see video interview with Harris on KDKA:

http://kdka.com/politics/Franco.Harris.O bama.2.684864.html

Also on board the Obama bus is Jay Paterno, QB coach at Penn State, son of the legendary Joe Paterno.

Facing South reports:

North Carolina has witnessed a surge in voter registrations this election year. Nearly 89,000 new voters have registered to vote in the last three months, according to new statistics released last Friday.

http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2 008/03/89000-new-voters-in-north-carolin a-who.asp

This is great news for Dems in the upcoming primary on May 6th.