NOW calls pro-choice majority to march in Washington D.C
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WOMEN'S RIGHT TO ABORTION ATTACKS ON WOMEN'S CLINICS CINCINNATI— "Not one woman, not one girl is going to lose her life to illegal abortion," promised Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women to the prolonged cheers of some 1500 members at the 1989 national conference here.
At the July 21-23 conference, NOW called for one million people to rally in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 12. The demonstration is to defend abortion rights and to protest the recent U.S. Supreme Court Webster decision allowing states to restrict access to abortion.
The NOW conference took place during a time of heightened attacks on the rights of women. In recent months, the Supreme Court has ruled against abortion and affirmative action. Ominously, the Court is scheduled to hear cases from Ohio, Illinois, and Minnesota, which could overturn the historic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.
The highlight of the conference-and a preview of things to come-was a 3000strong pro-choice demonstration on Sat., July 22. It was the largest pro-choice demonstration in the history of Cincinnati, a city considered to be a bastion of the so-called Right to Life movement.
As the six-block long march made its way to the Hamilton County Court House, approximately 300 anti-choice fanatics stood on the sidewalk singing religious hymns. They were drowned out by the chants of pro-choice supporters, who outnumbered them by at least 10 to 1.
Speakers, including Molly Yard; Judy Coughlin, a striking Eastern Airlines flight attendant and secretary-treasurer of Transport Workers Union Local 553; and the Rev. Dr. Yvonne Delk, executive director of the United Church of Christ, spoke for the need to organize and mobilize the vast majority of Americans, who support a woman's right to choose.
Throughout the NOW conference, the membership expressed its outrage at the frontal attack on women's rights. An under(continued on page 5, in “O.R. routed-as 2000 defend clinic in L.A”)
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