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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Protesters: Ryan and Akin the Same on Abortion

A group of about 25 picketed the Republican vice presidential candidate's Aug. 21 speech in West Chester.

An overwhelming majority of the crowd that gathered at West Chester’s American Helicopter Museum on Tuesday to see Paul Ryan did so in support of the Republican vice presidential candidate. Andrea Lynch was not in this majority. “I am a woman, and I have three daughters, and this is appalling to me. We are moving backwards in our rights and even respect,” said Lynch, a Malvern resident who was one of roughly 25 protesters who clustered along the venue's Airport Road entrance in the run-up to the 3:30 p.m. speech. Lynch, like many of the picketers, was incensed by what she views as the Republican ticket’s hostility to abortion rights. She carried two placards: one that read “Catholic Mother for Choice” another that asked “What is Legitimate…

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Bill L

3:41 am on Saturday, September 1, 2012

And to hear Morgan explain it, we're in this mess because of...... Uh, Reagan? Really, Morgan? Were you asleep from '76 - '80?   more ›

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