A Family's March to Redemption

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Why we marched...to prevent the neocons and theocrats from turning back the clock.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37967-2004Apr23.html

Four decades ago, Joannie Santoro-Griffin's mother, Gerri Santoro, bled to death on a motel room floor, the victim of a botched abortion. The photo became the icon for a movement. Tomorrow, Santoro-Griffin will walk with her own daughter and Santoro's sister Leona T. Gordon in the March for Women's Lives.

For Santoro-Griffin, 46, of Lake Forest, Calif., the march marks the first time she has signed up for an abortion rights rally. "I can't change what happened to my mother," she said. "But I can help change what's happening to our laws and make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else."

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1. thank you for posting that..

[Southpaw Bookworm]

2. You're welcome

That photo of Gerri Santoro is in the most recent edition of "Our Bodies Ourselves," and it just brought home what the choice movement is all about. Women have been terminating pregnancies since time began, and poor women were almost always forced to horrifying extremes to do so.

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3. Kick

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