U.S. Policies on Abortion Rights and Family Planning Reverberating around the World (Barf)

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Global Abortion Politics: U.S. Policies on Abortion Rights and Family Planning Reverberating around the World

4/22/2004 12:35:00 PM

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To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Jeanne Clark of the Feminist Majority, 703-522-2214 or 412-736-6092 (cell), or Michelle Ringuette of Catholics for a Free Choice, 202-986-6093

News Advisory:

-- Expert Panel from Key Global Regions to Discuss Impact of Bush Administration on Women Around the World

Top global leaders and activists from 55 countries will join the hundreds of thousands of women and men for the historic April 25 March for Women's Lives. As a preview, Catholics for a Free Choice and the Feminist Majority will facilitate a panel of top abortion rights leaders on Friday, April 23 at 9:30 a.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

In addition, the groups will announce the various activities on the March for Women's Lives weekend including a demonstration at the Vatican Embassy on Saturday, April 24 and the names and contacts of more than 100 leaders from various parts of the world.

WHEN: Friday, April 23, 2004, at 9:30 a.m.

WHERE: National Press Club, Murrow Conference Room (14th & F Streets, 13th Floor), Washington, DC

SPEAKERS:

-- Frances Kissling, president, Catholics for a Free Choice, USA.

-- Eleanor Smeal, president, Feminist Majority, USA.

-- Teresa Lanza Monje, director, Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir Bolivia (Catholics for the Right to Decide), Bolivia for the South and Central American region. Lanza is a lawyer who specializes in sexual and reproductive rights and the problem of abortion in Bolivia.

-- Elfriede Harth, European representative, Catholics for a Free Choice, France for the European region. Harth is leader in the Roman Catholic Church reform movement. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation on the political implications of the gender category on the Roman Catholic Church as an Institution.

-- Dr. Solomon Orero, a private gynecologist with Kisumu Medical and Educational Trust K-MET, Kenya for the African region. Dr. Orero has dedicated his medical career to preventing unnecessary deaths among women in Kenya caused by unsafe abortion and lack of access to family planning.

-- Anu Kumar, PhD, MPH, executive vice president, Ipas, India for the Asian region. Ipas is an international nongovernmental organization that works to reduce abortion-related deaths and injuries and to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights.

[FormerLib]

...Catholics for a Free Choice...

Or more correctly, Lone Former-Catholic for Abortion.

[paladinan]

Amen. I saw a clip of Frances Kissling on Hannity & Colmes, a little while ago... and she indignantly asserted that "she knew the Catechism as well as anyone."

One might wonder how she missed paragraphs 2270-2275... including this potent quote from Vatican II's "Gaudium et Spes":

"...abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes." (GS 51, sec.3)

You'd think that a "do-it-yourself-Catholic-doctrine" person would be a bit more in step with the documents of Vatican II, which they revere (and woefully misunderstand).