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July 26, 2013

Pro-Choice Activists Launch Cross-Country Abortion Rights Freedom Ride 
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The news comes as abortion rights supporters have launched a nationwide
caravan aimed at mobilizing supporters of reproductive freedom.
Participants in the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride plan to travel in the
coming weeks to Wichita, Kansas, Jackson, Mississippi, and other areas
where access to abortion is under attack. Organizer Sunsara Taylor spoke
at a kick-off rally in New York's Union Square.

Sunsara Taylor: "We're going to all the states with only one clinic
left. We're going to North Dakota, where on August 1st they plan to shut
down — they have a law that would shut down the only clinic left
in North Dakota. We're hoping for an injunction, we're expecting an
injunction, but we're going to be there either way, because the fact
that these laws passed is totally unacceptable. There needs to be a
massive fight in this country of people standing up and refusing to
tolerate this, because women's lives and women's future and ultimately
the kind of society we want to live in is at stake."

 

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