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DESCRIPTION:Oakland, CA:  An anti-choice youth boot camp called “Survivors of the 
 Abortion Holocaust” will be staging an intimidating misinformation 
 campaign in front of Oakland’s primary abortion provider clinic, Family 
 Planning Specialists. This is part of a coordinated series of events to 
 coincide with the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling that 
 legalized abortion in 1973, Roe v. Wade. The Bay Area Coalition for Our 
 Reproductive Rights condemns their harassment of this landmark Oakland 
 clinic.\n \n“Survivors” will arrive in the Bay Area to practice tactics 
 of intimidation, training the next generation of anti-abortion bigots, 
 harassing women entering the Oakland clinic where Walter Hoye was arrested 
 and jailed for violating the Bubble Ordinance, which provides a legal 
 protective 8-foot barrier between anti-choice demonstrators and clinic 
 patrons and workers. The “survivors” believe that since they were born 
 after 1973’s Roe v. Wade ruling, they can consider themselves survivors 
 of abortion.\n \nWe are calling on people to be visibly present in support 
 of reproductive justice and to arrive with signs, banners and pickets 
 across the street from the entrance of Family Planning Specialists. BACORR 
 and community activists stand in solidarity with Family Planning 
 Specialists and all abortion providers and healthcare workers that put 
 their lives on the line to ensure safe, legal abortion access. We condemn 
 the “Survivors” misuse of actual genocide and holocausts that plague 
 all people of color internationally and women around the world – and that 
 they ignore the very statistics regarding the necessity for safe, legal 
 abortion access worldwide.\n \n“The simple truth is that when abortion is 
 illegal women die,” said Linci Comy of Women’s Choice Clinic, “The 
 World Health Organization (WHO) says 5 million women around the world are 
 hospitalized each year from complications due to unsafe illegal abortion 
 and 70,000 of these women die. Abortion was legalized in 1973 because it 
 saves women’s lives and benefits families – WHO research shows 220,000 
 children lose their mothers from abortion related deaths every year.  What 
 a travesty for these abortion opponents to call themselves feminists.”\n 
 \nAfter this demonstration, BACORR will convene in front of the Tulley’s 
 (at 14th and Broadway) at Frank Ogawa Plaza near 12th Street BART to 
 continue to stand in defense of reproductive justice as the “Survivors” 
 will join another rightwing grouping called Standup4Life, which is meeting 
 at Oakland’s City Hall to rally and march. We will counter-demonstrate 
 and distribute information about the Day of Action for Reproductive 
 Justice.\n \nThe next day, on Saturday, January 23, 2010 in San Francisco 
 at the Embarcadero’s Justin Herman Plaza Music Concourse (where Stueart 
 Street meets Market Street), pro-choice advocates – joined by 
 representatives from the immigrant, labor, 
 lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender, disability, people of color and youth 
 communities, and progressive religious members – will demonstrate in 
 defense of reproductive justice and against the rightwing “Walk for 
 Life” that will be SF that same day, to denounce escalating assaults on 
 reproductive freedom, civil liberties, and women’s health by religious 
 fundamentalists and governmental policies, including but not limited to the 
 regressive, anti-abortion Stupak-Pitts and Nelson-Hatch amendments added 
 the healthcare bills passed in the House of Representatives and the one 
 currently in conference between the Senate and the House.\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/19/18635731.php
SUMMARY:Defend Abortion Clinic Family Planning Specialists in Oakland
LOCATION:Across the street from Family Planning Specialists, 200 Webster Street in 
 Oakland. near to Lake Merritt BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/19/18635731.php
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