A Call to Arms by Abortion Rights Groups

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New York Times

A Call to Arms by Abortion Rights Groups
By ROBIN TONER

Published: April 22, 2004

WASHINGTON, April 21 — For the first time in 12 years, a coalition of abortion rights advocates will hold what they hope will be a major march in Washington on Sunday, trying to return the issue to the forefront of American politics — and to highlight what they contend is the Bush administration's extremism.

They say President Bush has stayed "below the radar" on abortion and reproductive-health issues, as Kate Michelman, president of Naral Pro-Choice America, put it, and are trying to convey their sense of threat to the voters, after several legislative defeats and months of battling a Congress and a White House that are led by allies of the anti-abortion movement.

"We have to march to make people stop and think," Ms. Michelman said Wednesday at a news conference. "There are two facts that don't quite fit together: Most Americans support a woman's right to choose, and yet the most powerful political institutions of our government are in the hands of people who want to take that right to choose away."

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The "March for Women's Lives" this Sunday will be led by a coalition of seven women's and civil liberties groups. They are the National Organization for Women, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Black Women's Health Imperative, the Feminist Majority, Naral Pro-Choice America, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The march is also endorsed by more than 1,400 other groups, including unions and religious and health care organizations.

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1. Yes and I am going!

This is going to be great.
I didn't march in the 60's and 70's
Didn't think at that time the ERA was important. Boy was I wrong.

Some of the arguments against the ERA were, would you want your daughter to be drafted......all the negatives....and now they can do all that and we still don't have equal rights.

Should be a great day in Washington

If you can get there, go!

http://www.marchforwomen.org/

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2. After all, this is a Nation of FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLE

So this anti A guys wish to restrict our Freedom? They are Free to do many things, choose a God, Place of work, Place of education, where to live, what to drive, etc.....

They want to kill a freedom? They nuts or what?