One in three women in the United States has had an abortion in their lifetime. These women are our daughters, sisters, mothers, and grandmothers. Abortion is not a tragedy, as many politicians claim, but a necessity in many women’s lives.

For years women have endured political oppression around the right to determine their own reproductive path. The most recent affront to women happened in the hollow and shame filled halls of Congress on November 7, 2009, with the passing of the Stupak-Pitts amendment by anti-choice House members.

Fake clinics, often named Crisis Pregnancy Clinics, Hope Clinic, Women's Resource Clinics, are funded by right wing and Christian organizations in order to deceive women into coming into their doors. They promote themselves as medical facilites, but their sole purpose is to talk women out of having abortions.

Strategies to induce or coerce certain social groups to have or not have children are as old as the notion of private property. Power relationships that rely on racial purity, eliminating the poor or quelling revolution seek ways of controlling or influencing who is born.

In the Carhart decision, the US Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a particular abortion procedure in April, 2007, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative branch.

The US Supreme court, in the Carhart decision, upheld the Federal Abortion Ban on April 18th, 2007 ruling that the abortion restriction does not violate a woman’s constitutional right to abortion. (This is the decision on so-called Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act signed by President Bush).

MY NAME IS CAROL DOWNER AND I AM HERE TODAY TO HONOR GEORGE TILLER BY ACKNOWLEDGING HIS HUMANITY AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR SOCIETY.
OUR CLINIC, THE FEMINISTS WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER, PROVIDED ABORTIONS IN LOS ANGELES FROM 1973, 50 DAYS AFTER THE ROE V. WADE DECISION. IT WAS BURNED DOWN BY ANTI-ABORTIONISTS IN 1984.

With the election of President Obama and a less conservative legislature, it is time to intensify our work for reproductive justice. We at Women’s Health Specialists would like you to join us in an effort to repeal the Hyde restrictions. It is time to restore federal funds, reproductive justice and choice, and safety for all women.

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