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NEWS & LETTERS, JUNE 2003
NY pro-choice picket
New York--A picket line of feminists greeted a gala
affair by the anti-choice organization, National Right-to-Life (NRL), at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel on April 29. Supporters of abortion rights from NOW, NARAL,
and Planned Parenthood managed to shout and wave signs at fancy-dressed women
and men attending an awards ceremony at the Waldorf, where NRL honored a number
of famous actors and other people who work to deny women the right to control
their own bodies. The picketers' creative signs included a mock photo of a
couple in bed with a legislator in between them. We were reminded by the
virulent reactions of some people going into the hotel that abortion remains one
of the most divisive and emotional issues in the country, all these years after
we thought we had won this fundamental right. But many more people applauded
than cursed us as they went by on the busy street, especially women. --Anne Jaclard |
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