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Pro-choice rally
San Francisco--On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade the Right organized a so-called "walk for life" here among other cities. As in every year, there was a spirited counter-demonstration. Perhaps because many feel we "won" with Obama's election -- after all, just the day before he struck down Bush's "global gag-rule" forbidding international family health providers to even mention abortion as a choice -- there were not the usual thousands, but hundreds of young and old, women and men. One participant, referring to the "lifers" gathering on a nearby field, said, "We are now next to occupied territory. One day a year for the past five years thousands are bused into San Francisco to tell us that we are wrong. And we can say it is not working." What was pronounced in this year's event was the attempt to not separate a woman's right to choose from all the other challenges facing the world. Thus one speaker called explicitly to "unite across false lines of single-issue." Francis, a young organizer for justice for Oscar Grant (see Thousands oppose police britality) stated that Oscar Grant's killing is a part of a larger problem.
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