S.F. women plan March 29 pro-choice demonstration
1992Carole Seligman 1992-01Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 7 →
Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: expect misread words, and now and then a caption or a line from a neighbouring story. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Scan page 7
San Francisco will be the site of a major Northern Califomia pro-choice demonstration on Sunday, March 29. Sponsored by the San Francisco Area Pro-Choice Coalition, the action has already won the support of a wide array of pro-choice organizations, including several chapters of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, Socialist Action, and many others.
This support for the March 29 mobilization, called a "March for Women's Lives," represents a step forward for the pro-choice movement. The divisions in the movement that kept the Oct. 5, 1991, demonstration from realizing its potential have been overcome. The organizations that declined to support that action have joined in the call for this one.
Since more than 7000 people marched for abortion rights on Oct. S, the expectations for the size of this demonstration are significantly higher.
The Pro-Choice Coalition has adopted two major demands around which the March 29 march and rally will be organized: "For safe, legal, accessible abortion!" and "Defend all Reproductive Rights!"
The stated intention of California's Gov. Wilson to put the brunt of the state's recession economy upon its poorest residents, those receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), is provoking great anger among women's rights activists.
Wilson actually intends to penalize women by denying any additional funds for new children born to families receiving AFDC funds. Who will suffer most from such cruel measures? The children, of course!
The Pro-Choice Coalition meeting held Dec. 16 voted to oppose all attacks on women's right to bear children with the same vigor as it opposes government SERIES. attacks on the right to abortion.
The March 29 action is seen as a major means of building West Coast support for the April 5 National March on Washington called by the NOW. In the process of building the Northern California march, it is hoped by activists here that thousands will be mobilized to go to Washington, D.C., for the March for Women's Lives there.
The countdown for the spring mobilizations will begin on Sunday, Jan. 19, with a teach-in and organizing meeting to be held at Mission High School in San Francisco. Other Bay Area pro-choice groups will be organizing events as well.
The 19th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on Wednesday, Jan. 22, will be celebrated with human billboards on major commuter routes, a lunch-hour rally in downtown San Francisco, and a motorized cable car-which will travel to heavily trafficked districts of the city to publicize the March 29 mobilization. To get more information and to help build these events, call the coalition at (415) 255-1989.
----- pull-quotes -----
KEEP ABORTION LEGAL