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DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights invites  you to...  Defend 
 Women's Rights!  Sunday, August 14th at 3pm  Women's Building, Audre Lorde 
 Room--San Francisco  Come to this planning meeting to get involved with  
 BACORR in a variety of activites to build the movement  and defend our 
 rights, such as building a possible rally   and march regarding Roe v. Wade 
 and the Supreme   Court, clinic defense to keep abortion safe and legal,  a 
 women's rights conference in the fall, street  theatre actions and more.    
  There is an immediate urgency to defend women's  rights.  We need to build 
 a movement with a strong  response to attacks on our rights--to  be at the 
 abortion clinics to keep them open and safe;  to tell Congess that if they 
 will not filibuster  right-wing nominations to the courts, we will on the  
 streets; to confront the right wherever they rear  their heads; to debate 
 and discuss strategy and tactics   to move our struggle forward.    Some of 
 the issues that make this meeting so  important:  **John Roberts' 
 confirmation to the Supreme Court  seems inevitable--many Democrats, 
 including Sen. Diane  Feinstein, have said they will not filibuster, 
 despite  the fact that he has continuously lobbied to overturn   Roe v. 
 Wade.   **Conservatives are forcing Proposition 73, the  Parental 
 Notification Initiative (PNI), that  approximates an invasive parental 
 consent law,   to be on the ballot in either November or the early   spring 
 (if the Special Election in November fails) in California.    **This past 
 month, the Crusade for Life has felt  emboldened enough to travel the state 
 of California  harassing women outside abortion clinics.  "Walk For   Life" 
 plans to have another march in San Francisco   in January of 2006.  
 **Nearly 90% of counties in the US have no access to  abortion providers.  
 Access to any contraception at  all is under further attack: the Workplace 
 Religious   Freedom Act, currently under consideration in the   Senate, 
 gives pharmacists the right to refuse to fill  any contraception 
 perscriptions, emergency or  otherwise, if it goes against their faith.   
 **Women still make $0.75 for every $1.00 a man earns,  and decent, 
 affordable childcare is for too many women  an unattainable dream.  
 Sponsored by Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive  Rights (BACORR).  For 
 more information, please contact:  lichi_d@yahoo.com or 415-994-3462.  
 =======================================================  BACORR: Bay Area 
 Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights  http://www.bacorr.org | 
 http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/bacorr  
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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/08/03/72483.php
SUMMARY:Defend Women's Rights!
LOCATION:Audre Lorde Room  Women's Building  3543 18th Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/08/03/72483.php
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