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DESCRIPTION:In 2013, 22 states implemented 70 abortion restrictions, and over 80 
 abortion clinics were shut down across the country.  It was a record year 
 for the dismantling of women's reproductive rights.\n\n2013 was also a year 
 that saw some resistance emerge against the assault on abortion rights and 
 the war on women.  See The Progressive's "Top 5 Moments" of resistance at: 
 http://progressive.org/top-five-moments-in-2013-war-on-womens-rights\n\nThousands 
 were involved in different ways in getting the message "Abortion On Demand 
 and Without Apology" out far and wide in opposition to the continued and 
 escalating assault on this basic right.\n \nOn Saturday January 25, the 
 Walk for "Life" will be coming back to San Francisco to protest the right 
 to abortion and to celebrate the recent success of the anti-abortion 
 movement.  They will march down Market Street, where lampposts currently 
 sport the slogan "Abortion Hurts Women."\n \nStop Patriarchy is calling on 
 everyone who refuse to sit idly by while women across the country are 
 reduced to the role of mere breeders and forced into motherhood or 
 criminalized if they choose otherwise, to STAND UP in uncompromising 
 opposition to the Walk for "Life" West Coast at 1:30pm on Saturday, January 
 25, 2014.\n\nIf you would like to contribute in any way to making this a 
 massive day of resistance against the escalating war on women, please 
 contact Alex at 510-593-0319\n\nMore on the Walk for "Life" West 
 Coast:\n\nThe Walk for "Life" West Coast is a mass mobilization of 
 anti-abortion activists from around the country that will descend for the 
 10th time on San Francisco (what they refer to as "Sin City" and "Sodom") 
 and fill the streets with their doctored photos of stillborns, dehumanizing 
 polarization of women as either incubators or murderers, and all the 
 messages of objectification, enslavement, shame, and condemnation that 
 typifies this front of the War on Women.  On January 25, 2014 this mob will 
 go out in the style of the March for "Life" to protest the dwindling right 
 to abortion in the US, and they will go completely unopposed unless we 
 unite to RESIST. \n\nAnd this anti-abortion movement truly has the system 
 on their side.  The war on women rages, and it is winning. To quote the 
 article Abortion: Stigmatized and Endangered, Time for Massive, 
 Uncompromising Struggle by Sunsara Taylor, writer for Revolution Newspaper 
 and initiator of End Pornography & Patriarchy: The Enslavement & 
 Degradation of Women:  \n\n"More than one in four poor women who seek 
 abortions cannot afford one and end up burdened with a child against their 
 will. Women who are able to scrounge up the money must run a gauntlet of 
 extreme and medically unnecessary restrictions from mandatory waiting 
 periods to parental notification laws to being forced to endure a probe 
 inserted into their vaginas, and more. Today, 97% of rural counties do not 
 have an abortion provider. And whole generations have grown up never having 
 heard anyone speak of abortion as something positive and moral."\n\nWomen 
 and men who are fed up with this dangerous dynamic need to SHOW UP on one 
 coast or the other to say, actually ABORTION IS NOT MURDER, because FETUSES 
 ARE NOT BABIES, and WOMEN ARE NOT INCUBATORS, or objects, or property, to 
 strip of this basic right of controlling their own reproduction, their own 
 futures, and their own lives.  \n\nAnd to the debilitated "pro choice" 
 movement and the Democrats who are always talking about not taking abortion 
 lightly, not using it as birth control, no late term abortions, only in the 
 case of rape or incest or underage pregnancy, and so on, and so forth:  The 
 minute you accepted the terms of the right wing, you lost your credibility. 
  Abortion is NOT even "justifiable" homicide.  \nIt isn't homicide at all.  
 Your context for the issue of abortion access should be the larger 
 economic, political, and ideological war on women, and then your knee jerk 
 reaction to the issue itself will never be to apologize for your position 
 as your opening line!  While they continue to apologize, women's lives are 
 in peril!  \n \nAbortion just isn't murder!  Contribute TODAY to planting a 
 new pole -- mobilizing through a movement that is bold, unapologetic, and 
 determined to win -- in any of many ways.\n \nAbortion on Demand and 
 Without Apology!\nDEFEAT the War on Women!\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/11/18749061.php
SUMMARY:Counter-Protest the Walk for "Life" - Stand Up for Abortion Rights!
LOCATION:Powell & Market
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