Organizing accelerates in S.F. for Oct. 15 pro-choice march
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SAN FRANCISCO-The local chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) is a beehive of activity. The immediate project underway is the Oct. 15, 1989, "March to Protect Women's Rights, Save Women's Lives."
This San Francisco demonstration-called by the statewide organization, California NOW, to "Keep Abortion Safe, Legal and Accessible" —is being organized out of the NOW office in coordination with the Bay Area Pro-Choice Coalition.
Linda Joplin, coordinator of California NOW, told Socialist Action, "The over 27,000 NOW members in California and the new ones that are joining every day are vitally concerned about this issue and want to send a strong message to the California legislature and to the Congress.' Joplin says she expects people from "Northern California and beyond to come together and express their support for the continuation of reproductive rights."
The demonstration will be aimed as much at the federal government as at the California legislature. "The reproductive rights of women in every state in this country must be guaranteed at the federal level," Joplin stated.
Georgianna Low, S.F. NOW activist and coordinator of the Bay Area Pro-Choice Coalition, told Socialist Action that the Oct. 15 march and rally is timed to "show huge public support for pro-choice before the Supreme Court makes decisions" in the abortion cases it is hearing during its next session.
"We need to concentrate on abortion rights now," Low emphasized, "because of the Supreme Court decision and because of the power being amassed to attack it." The right to abortion "is a stepping stone for full equality for women," she added.
Low explained that California NOW's "Campaign to Protect Women's Rights, Save Women's Lives" has three major prongs: the Oct. 15 San Francisco march, a demonstration in Los Angeles on Oct. 22, and the Nov. 12 NOW national mobilization in Washington, D.C.
California NOW chapters are raising funds to help get a large West Coast contingent to Washington. Weekly meetings to organize the Oct. 15 march are held every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Women's Building, 3543 18th St. (between Valencia and Guerrero), San Francisco. Everyone is welcome to participate. For more information, call (415)
861-8937 or 861-8880.
injunction. At one central Los Angeles clinic, for example, it took police seven hours before giving the order to leave. By that time, all scheduled appointments had been seen, so OR promptly quit.
The media chose to give news coverage to OR at another Pico Blvd. clinic that is closed