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DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights invites\nyou to...\n\nDefend 
 Women's Rights and Expand Reproductive Justice!\nSaturday, September 23 at 
 2:00pm\nWomen's Building, 3543 18th Street (between Valencia\nand 
 Guerrero), San Francisco\nSnacks and drinks available for a small 
 donation\n\nBring your ideas to this planning meeting and get\ninvolved 
 with BACORR in a variety of ways to build the\nmovement and defend 
 reproductive rights and freedoms. \nHear from leading Bay Area activists, 
 including Linci\nComy, Executive Director of the Women's Choice 
 Clinic,\nabout the current climate and what's at stake in the\nbattle for 
 reproductive justice.  Your skills are\nneeded in these urgent times!  
 \n\nProposed upcoming activities include:\n\n*organizing against 
 Proposition 85, the Parental\nNotification Initiative on the ballot in 
 November\nwhich requires young women to notify their parents or\ngo to 
 court if they need an abortion\n\n*building a vibrant, multi-issue presence 
 on the\nanniversary of Roe v. Wade in January 2007 to counter\nthe 
 thousands of anti-choice fundamentalists who will\ndescend on San Francisco 
 for the third annual "Walk\nfor Life--West Coast"\n\n*organizing clinic 
 defense to keep abortion safe and\nlegal -- Bay Area clinic staff and 
 clients continue to\nface harassment and threats on a regular 
 basis\n\n*coordinating a public educational on the history of\nwomen's 
 rights, movement building, and what strategies\nare needed in 2006 and 
 beyond\n\n*street theatre actions, media campaigns, community\noutreach, 
 and more.  \n\nEveryone is welcome!  \n\nA few reasons why this meeting is 
 so important:\n\nReproductive rights are under attack throughout 
 the\ncountry like we haven't seen in many years.  In July,\nthe last 
 abortion clinic in the entire state of\nMississippi was targeted by the 
 far-right, homophobic,\nanti-women and anti-immigrant groups "Operation 
 Save\nAmerica" and the Minutemen United.  They didn't\nsucceed in shutting 
 down the Jackson clinic because of\nprotests organized by Southern 
 feminists and allies\nfrom across the country.  Still, nearly 90% 
 of\ncounties in the US have no access to abortion\nproviders.  Access to 
 any contraception at all is\nunder further attack -- in many states, 
 pharmacists\nare refusing to fill contraception perscriptions,\nemergency 
 or otherwise, if it goes against their\nfaith.  Additionally, many women of 
 color and poor\nwomen continue to be threatened by coerced\nsterilization 
 and lack of access to services.  Women\nas a whole still make $0.75 for 
 every $1.00 a man\nearns, with women of color and immigrant women 
 making\neven less, and decent, affordable healthcare and\nchildcare is for 
 too many women an unattainable dream.\n Let's work together to stop the 
 ultra-right and go on\nthe offensive to preserve hard-won reproductive 
 rights\nand expand human rights and true equality for all!\n\nThe meeting 
 is sponsored by Bay Area Coalition for Our\nReproductive Rights (BACORR).  
 BACORR puts defense of\nbasic reproductive rights around abortion in a 
 broader\nhistorical context of demands for reproductive\nfreedom, which 
 includes free abortion on demand, no\nparental consent laws, no 
 Medicaid/MediCal cuts for\nabortion, no coerced sterilization, free 
 birth\ncontrol, free quality healthcare, explicit\nnon-moralistic sex 
 education, and the right to have\nchildren, including access to free 
 quality child care\nand free quality pre-natal care.  \n\nTo build the 
 strongest and broadest pro-choice\nmovement possible, we must fight all 
 forms of\noppression.  We see reproductive choice as an integral\npart of a 
 larger struggle for the\nliberation/self-determination of all people.  To 
 this\nend, BACORR recognizes the leadership of and organizes\nto address 
 the needs of those hardest hit by the\nescalating rightwing climate and 
 dismantling of social\nservices, including women of color; poor, 
 immigrant\nand disabled women; lesbian/bisexual/transgender\npeople, and 
 young women.  \n\nTo endorse this meeting, to RSVP, or for 
 more\ninformation, please contact BACORR at\nbacorrinfo@riseup.net or 
 415-864-1278.\n=======================================================\nBACORR: 
 Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive 
 Rights\nhttp://www.bacorr.org\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/17/18312294.php
SUMMARY:Defend Women's Rights and Expand Reproductive Justice!
LOCATION:Women's Building, 3543 18th Street (between Valencia\nand Guerrero), San 
 Francisco\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/17/18312294.php
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