I didn't know Polly Bergen was such a champion for women's rights
Until I read this article regarding the recent passing of Polly, I had no idea she was such a strong advocate for women's rights.
Los Angeles Times
Polly Bergen, dead at 84, was strong women's rights activist
By Deborah Vankin
(excerpt)
“She and Gloria Steinem teamed up to raise money and educate people as to the needs of women,” Reed says. “She went many times to the White House and spoke before the Senate and at other other functions. She encouraged people to vote -- that was important to her.”
Planned Parenthood was a cause particularly close to Bergen’s heart, McCormack says. She was pro-choice. Bergen also had three children: daughter Pamela (PK) Fields and son Peter Fields whom she adopted with her second husband Freddy Fields, and a step-daughter, Fields’ biological child Kathy Lander, who she helped raise.
“She was never able to have children of her own and so she adopted -- and that was all part of Planned Parenthood,” McCormack says. “She wanted kids to be born because they were wanted and needed and not at random.”....
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