Cincinnati NOW sponsors March for Women's Lives

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CINCINNATI-The National Organiza -tion for Women (NOW) is calling a March for Women's Lives to keep abortion safe and legal. The march will be held here on March 16.

Bill Baird, 20-year veteran of the battle for reproductive freedom, will address the rally at Fountain Square. Sally Bingham, writer and founder of the Kentucky Foundation for Women, will also be a featured speaker.

Religious fanatics have chosen Cincin -nati as a focus for some of their most vicious attacks on women's rights. No arrests or indictments have ever resulted from the dual clinic firebombings here in December 1985.

Driven into crowded temporary head -quarters, Planned Parenthood's patients and staff face a mob of bigots each Saturday who are bent on forcing their views on others. NOW raised over $35,000 to help replace the burned facility through "Pledgea-Picket." Harassers were irked to learn that their continued presence meant more money for the abortion clinic.

Eleanor Smeal, national NOW president, addressed over 500 pro-choice supporters here last August. Sherri O'Dell, national NOW vice president, is scheduled to address the May 16 march.

Bill Baird celebrated the anniversary of By WILLIAM LESSER KEEP SAFE AND LEGAL Roe vs. Wade at a Jan. 22 event sponsored by National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). Baird also joined a picket line to expose a "phony" clinic which poses as a medical facility but is actually a front for anti-choice scare counselors.

Baird's enthusiasm and dedication inspired those who want to organize an authoritative demonstration of the majority pro-choice SOMEONE YOU SOMEONE YOU LOVE MAY NEED A CHOICE sentiment. He is no stranger to the terrorist tactics of the enemies of reproductive freedom. His clinic was once bombed with him in it.

Using violence and threats, the antichoice forces try to intimidate reasonable people into silence. If they are successful, terrified women with unwanted pregnancies will again be driven to desperate acts.

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WOMIN Courtesy of Seyring-Boyle, Cinn. NOW women's movement. It would like to bar federal funds for any group that even informs women that they have a right to an Rolling back rights At a time of high unemployment, it is very convenient for big-business and the government to drive women back into the isolation of their homes. There, the respon -sibility for social services, which are being cut, falls to millions of individual women.

When needed again to boost the ranks of hired labor, women can be pulled out again for temporary service.

When the basic right to choose whether or not to bear children is removed, all other choices are also challenged. Women have a right to full reproductive freedom. We have a right to work decent paying jobs. Our children have a right to be wanted and to be cared for in a safe and creative environment.

We hope to meet the challenge to our reproductive rights with a bold response. Join us on May 16 in our March for Women's Lives.

For an endorsement fee of $5.00, your name or the name of your organization will be included in the printed program to be distributed at the rally. Please send contributions and messages of support to NOW, P.O. Box 14966, Cincinnati, OH 45214. For more information call (513) 251-7722 or 731-7520.

LAST MINUTE: A pipe bomb, which failed to go off because of a faulty fuse, was placed at the Cincinnati Planned Parenthood building on Feb. 23. The bomb could have created great damage as the building was occupied. One group of "Right to Lifers"—the Jericho project —called the anonymous bomber a "hero."