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DESCRIPTION:A Protest March, Rally, and Candlelight Vigil Speak-out\n\n•	Abortion on 
 demand and without apology!\n•	Women are not objects.  Women are not 
 things to be used for the sexual pleasure of men NOR are they breeders of 
 children!\n•	Women are human beings, fully equal in every realm! 
 \n•	Fight for the emancipation of women all over the world\n\n5:00 	Rally 
 and Speak-Out at the office of Archbishop Niederauer\n5:30	March to St. 
 Mary’s Cathedral [Geary and Gough]\n6:00	Rally and Speak-Out – 
 Candlelight Vigil \n\nA war on women is raging across this country, a 
 hateful and violent assault against women’s most fundamental rights and 
 humanity.  What does it mean to be a woman in America today?  Every 15 
 seconds a woman is beaten.  Every day 3 to 4 women are killed by their 
 partners.  Women are degraded, dehumanized, and destroyed within a culture 
 steeped in rape and sexual violence. One out of 4 female college students 
 will be raped or sexually assaulted while in college.  One in 5 female 
 soldiers is sexually assaulted while in the military.\n\nThe right to 
 abortion is one huge battlefront in this war on women.  A woman who cannot 
 control her own reproduction, and choose whether and when to have a child, 
 is not free.  An avalanche of new state laws is not just criminalizing 
 abortion, but attacking contraception too.  Religious fanatics and 
 rightwing lunatics are on this mission – but the Democrats are right 
 there with them too.  And between the Church and the State, the willful 
 silencing of women’s voices about their own health care, their own needs, 
 and their own lives is profound and intolerable.\nWhy protest at St. 
 Mary’s Cathedral?  Because the Vatican’s approach toward women, gender, 
 sexuality and science is a horror.  The Pope has condemned condoms, causing 
 millions of HIV-AIDS deaths.  The Vatican condemns homosexuality as a 
 “sin” which directly contributes to anti-LGBT bigotry, hatred, and 
 violence.  It insists that divorce, too, is a “sin,” contributing to 
 women staying in abusive marriages.  The Catholic Church’s denial of 
 abortion as a basic right amounts to female enslavement.\n\nAnd now the 
 Bishops urge “non-compliance” with new regulations requiring health 
 insurance to cover birth control.  Behind the Bishops’ hypocritical cries 
 of “religious freedom” – they are out to enforce their canon law 
 (with all its bigotry against women and LGBT people) on all of society.  
 And the Obama administration says we must be sensitive to THIS as religious 
 freedom?\n\nNo.  Either you think women are breeders and incubators, or you 
 think women are human beings, fully equal in every realm. There is no 
 common ground.\n\nWe denounce the Vatican, not the parishioners – 98% of 
 whom have used birth control [Guttmacher Institute, April 2011].  And many 
 of us think the Catholic Church is only one of many religious institutions 
 whose terrible tenets and practices harm and destroy the lives of women and 
 LGBT people. But in the U.S.A. right now, the right-wing Catholic movement 
 led by the Council of Catholic Bishops is fighting with all its might as a 
 big power in the larger “war on women.”\n\nWe say the Church should 
 give up oppressing, harassing, and destroying the lives of women – not 
 just for Lent but forever!\n\nWhen half of humanity is enslaved and 
 degraded, no one is free.  We demand – and on International Women’s Day 
 2012, we celebrate – the full equality and liberation of 
 women.\n\nEmancipate Women Everywhere!\n\nSponsored by World Can’t Wait, 
 BACORR (Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights), CODEPINK-SF, San 
 Francisco NOW, and Revolution Books\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/03/18708603.php
SUMMARY:On the Eve of International Women’s Day……
LOCATION:office of Archbishop Niederauer\n1 Peter Yorke Way (between Geary and Post, 
 off Gough)\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/03/18708603.php
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