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CHICAGO, Apr 23 (LSN) – Yesterday the Chicago Sun Times reminded readers of the National Organization of Women’s participation in a national civil-disobedience campaign 13 years ago to protest nuclear war. The paper also noted how ironic it is that today the leading US feminist group is celebrating a recent court decision, which they engineered, classifying pro-life civil disobedience and other demonstrations as “extortion” under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law.  It has also been remarked that in a protest designed to force passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, feminists blocked access to the Illinois Senate by chaining themselves together at the entrance of the building—a form of demonstration remarkably similar to that used by Operation Rescue, one of the pro-life groups targeted by NOW in the Scheidler case.  But the hypocrisy does not end there. In a document on stopping sexual harassment in the workplace, NOW says it is necessary to target “all levels and all branches of government,”  and called on President Bill Clinton “to work for an amendment…to state clearly that it is illegal quid pro quo harassment if a boss makes sexual advances and threatens a woman’s job or benefits, even if the threats are not carried out when she refuses.” Yesterday, however,  NOW refused to support Paula Jones in her appeal of a recent court decision dismissing her well substantiated sexual-harassment claims against Mr. Clinton himself.  In March, feminist icon Gloria Steinem argued in the New York Times that Mr. Clinton was not guilty of sexual harassment, even if he did proposition Paula Jones and fondle Catherine Willey (another of the President’s many accusers), because he “took no for an answer.”  Steinem concluded that even if the allegations against Mr Clinton were true, he is nonetheless deserving of feminist support. The reason he merits such loyalty, she said, is his singular devotion to abortion “rights.”