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This lack of numbers makes it too easy for the police to segregate pro-choice supporters far from the clinic entrance and almost out of earshot. With so few people, it is much harder to make an impact, and much FREEDOM OF CHOICE???

Kathieen O'Nan/Socialist Action harassing women at clinics.

more likely that the clinic will effectively closed for business.

It may seem as if Operation Rescue is on the retreat, but women's right to choose is still being seriously threatened. The only way to protect that right is by mass mobiism?"

Not only are we expanding the size of Socialist Action—we're lowering the subscription price! For the next three months, during our Fall 1990 subscription drive, the Delegates to Socialist Action's recent national convention unanimously approved a $25,000 fund drive. At a "Rally in Defense of Socialism and Democracy" held at the closing of the convention on July 7, $16,500 was pledged by members and supporters.

We are now appealing to readers of Socialist Action newspaper to help raise the remaining $8500 by Oct. 31.

Past fund drives have been instrumental in Socialist Action's publishing efforts, subsidizing our initial series of books and pamphlets. Socialist Action newspaper has also been a major beneficiary.

Past fund drives have made it possible to send Socialist Action reporters to cover class-struggle battles from the coal mines of Pittston to the shipyards in Poland to the Pro-Democracy Movement in China.

Money for the current fund drive is already being spent. A special edition of What would you guess is the greatest cause of injuries to women 15 years and older? Automobile accidents? Accidents at home or at work? Muggings and rapes? Wrong.

A study recently reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the most common cause of injuries to women is abuse by husband or partner. Injuries from domestic abuse occurred more often than auto accidents, muggings, and rapes combined.

The study further noted that "34 percent of all female homicide victims older than 15 years are killed by their husbands or intimate partners." This conclusion came from FBI data gathered from 1976 to 1987.

The Journal article pointed to the crying inadequacy of the U.S. medical system, which treats these women and then sends them home to the likelihood of more abuse. The deeper problem is the sickness of the family and human relations in this capitalist system of violence, competition, and hypocrisy.

lization. Only if pro-choice supporters are there in force can there be an effective defense. Even if the religious right are "only" praying, singing, and giving out their fake counselling, they still have to be outnumbered and pushed back.

special reduced price will be $6 for one year and $3 for six months. We aim to get 700 new subscribers by Thanksgi ving. If you are not a current subscriber, here 's your chance. Subscribe now!

Socialist Action was printed and distributed across the country in mid-August in response to U.S. intervention in the Middle East.

We are also doubling the press run of our current issue to help build the movement against the U.S. war in the Persian Gulf. We want to continue and expand our coverage of the Middle East.

With this fund drive we want to update office equipment and expand our newspaper staff. In addition we plan to send a delegation of four socialist journalists to Cuba to increase our understanding and bring back an accurate picture, undistorted by capitalist propaganda, of Cuba today.

Join with us to make our $25,000 funddrive goal "in full and on time"-because every dollar counts. Please send your funddrive contribution to Socialist Action, 3435 Army St. #308, San Francisco, CA 94110.-SHANNON SHEPPARD

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