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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.07,0:00:06.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Sonya Renee at the Individual World Poetry Slam Finals 2006]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.89,0:00:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Culturally diversified bi-racial girl
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.18,0:00:15.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a small diamond nose ring and a pretty smile
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.05,0:00:19.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poses beside the words "Women Deserve Better".
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.83,0:00:22.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I almost let her non-threatening grin begin to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.29,0:00:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,infiltrate my psyche til I read the unlikely smallprint at the bottom of the ad:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.20,0:00:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sponsored by the US Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities and the Knights of Columbus"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.43,0:00:40.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a bus in a city with a population of 563,000
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.03,0:00:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,4 teenage mothers on the bus with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.72,0:00:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 Latino woman with 3 children under 3 and no signs of a daddy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.50,0:00:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One 16 year old black girl
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.64,0:00:51.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,standing in 22 degree weather
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.15,0:00:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with only a sweater and a bookbag and a basinette with an infant that aint even 4 weeks yet
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.26,0:01:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tell me that yes, women do deserve better.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.80,0:01:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women deserve better than
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.20,0:01:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,public transportation rhetoric from the same people who wont give that teenage mother a ride to the next transit.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.85,0:01:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wont let you talk to their kids about safer sex.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.77,0:01:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have never had to listen as the door slams behind the man who adamently says that shit aint his.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.61,0:01:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaving her to wonder how she'll raise this kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.00,0:01:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women deserve better than the $300 TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] and AFDC [Aid to Families with Dependent Children ] will provide that family of 3
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.34,0:01:28.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the $6 an hour job at KFC with no benefits for her new baby
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.51,0:01:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the college degree she'll never see because you cant have infants at the university.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.32,0:01:36.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women deserve better than lip service paid for by politicians
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.78,0:01:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have no alternatives to abortion
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.43,0:01:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though I'm sure right now one of their 17 year old daughters is sitting
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.24,0:01:45.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a clinic lobby sobbing quietly and anonymously
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.49,0:01:48.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,praying parents dont find out
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.34,0:01:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or is waiting for mom to pick her up because
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.85,0:01:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,research shows that out of wedlock childbirth dont look good on political polls and Bush aint havin that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.12,0:02:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women deserve better than patchwork governmental policies
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.05,0:02:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that dont want to pay for welfare for kids
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.30,0:02:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or healthcare for kids
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.20,0:02:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or childcare for kids
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.88,0:02:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dont want to pay living wages to working mothers
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.50,0:02:14.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dont want to make men who only wanna be last nights lovers responsible for the semen they lay
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.95,0:02:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just flat out dont wanna pay for shit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.60,0:02:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They want to control the woman who's having it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.22,0:02:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Acting outraged at abortion
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.04,0:02:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I'm outraged that they want us to believe that they believe that women deserve better
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.24,0:02:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Vatican wont prosecute pedophile priests
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.16,0:02:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and its condemnation for me?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.60,0:02:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the same people who wont support national condom distribution
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.34,0:02:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to prevent teenage pregnancy
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.03,0:02:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but women deserve better.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.90,0:02:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women deserve better than back alley surgeries that leave our wombs barren and empty
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.53,0:02:52.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deserve better than organizations bearing the name of land stealing, racist, rapists
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.99,0:02:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.31,0:02:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with no money to give these women
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.20,0:03:01.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while balding middle aged white men tell us what to do with our bodies
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.26,0:03:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while they wage wars and kill other people's babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.02,0:03:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so maybe women deserve better than propaganda and lies to get into office.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.90,0:03:12.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Propaganda and lies to get into panties
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.86,0:03:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get out of court
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.16,0:03:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get out of paying child support
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.72,0:03:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR DECISIONS AND GIVE US BACK OUR VOICE
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.53,0:03:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women do deserve better
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.40,0:03:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women deserve choice.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.20,0:03:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[cheers]