From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: March for Women's Lives
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March for Women's Lives
April 5th, Washington DC      
	
	The National Organization for Women (NOW) is coordinating a 
major abortion rights demonstration in Washington DC on April 5.  
Branded the "We Won't Go Back! March for Women's Lives", the march 
will focus on placing women and supporters in elective offices to counter 
legal and legislative challenges to abortion rights.
      "With the days of safe and legal abortion in America numbered," said 
Kate Michelman of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), 
"the time has come for our nation's pro-choice majority to act more 
forcefully and boldly than ever before."
      Supporters are also stressing the links between abortion rights, privacy, 
and reproductive and sexual freedom.
      "Abortion is just the opening wedge for a major right-wing attack on 
reproductive rights generally," NOW President Patricia Ireland warned in 
a press conference Feb 20.  "All of us are standing together for reproductive 
choice in the greater context of freedom and self-determination, of keeping 
the government out of our bedrooms and the most intimate areas of our 
lives."
      "Conservative groups are focusing on two big issues, abortion and 
homosexuality, all around the country," said Robin Kane of the National 
Gay and Lesbian Task Force, which has endorsed the march.  "Groups 
facing the same enemies work together."
      According to Liz Castro, director of the Religious Coalition for Abortion 
Rights' Women of Color Partnership Program, "Women of color will be the 
first to suffer and die from illegal abortions" if abortion is outlawed or 
further restricted.
      NOW has been more responsive to the concerns of women of color in 
organizing this march than for past events, says Castro.  "This march will 
reflect a broader agenda," she said in a telephone interview, including a 
call to end sterilization abuse and the coercive use of the Norplant 
contraceptive.
      Castro said Ireland had pledged that the march would be "multicultural 
in terms of speakers and actively recruiting people of color.  It won't just be 
white, middle-class women."
      The march has been endorsed by more than 200 organizations from the 
Gray Panthers to the Green Party, among them NARAL, the National 
Education Association and literally scores of women's groups.

[excerpted from The Guardian, March 4, 1992, p 4; 24 West 25th St., New 
York, NY 10010; (212) 691-0404.]
NOW can be reached at 1000 16th St., NW, Washington D.C. 20036; (202) 
331-
0066.

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