Texas-style 'rescue' a big flop
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SOCIALIST ACTION AUGUST 1990 1 5 in their nipples when breastfeeding.
In Romania, similar unsanitary practices under the former Causescu government were revealed. Ceausescu had outlawed abortion, forcing many women to leave their babies in local orphanages or hospitals where hundreds of infants became infected with the AIDS virus.
From Africa, where some believe the virus originated, the news is not much better. There the disease is mainly transmitted throughout the heterosexual community and again due to unsanitary medical practices such as re-used needles.
Eunice Kiereini, chairperson of WHO (World Health Organization) Regional Nursing and Midwifery Task Force in Kenya, stated in her remarks to the opening session of the conference:
"Four-hundred thousand or more [in Africa] are ill with AIDS, and 3. 5 million more are infected with the virus. [Both sexes are equally represented.] Six-hundred thousand [of those infected] are infants under 5 years of age."
Two anti-abortion groups threatened to blockade clinics in Houston, Texas, during the International Economic Summit on July 11-12. But this attempt to garner media coverage for their anti-woman acts fizzled.
The groups, Pro-Life Advocates Network and Rescue America (formerly Operation Rescue), boasted that they would have the "world's largest rescue, Texas-Style," with shock troops numbering 3500. According to Phyllis Tucker, state president of the Texas National Organization for Women (NOW), the anti-women fanatics were able to mobilize only 200 people.
On July 11, all but one Houston-area clinic were closed in memory of the women who died from illegal abortions before 1973. Houston Planned Parenthood remained open and was assaulted, but NOW's vigorous organizing brought police protection to the clinic.
The police informed the terrorists that they would face felony charges with possible fines of $10,000 if they used any acts of violence. This must have deterred the attackers because only one "rescuer" was arrested and fined $1000 for trespassing on clinic property.
On July 11, all but one of the Houston-area clinics were closed in memory of the women who died from illegal abortions before 1973. Houston Planned Parenthood remained open and was assaulted, but NOW's vigorous organizing brought police protection to the clinic.
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