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Sunday, April 25, 2004
WASHINGTON, APRIL 25-- Hundreds of thousands of abortion rights supporters rallied Sunday in the nation's capital, protesting the policies of the Bush administration and its conservative allies and vowing to fight back in the November election.
The huge crowd marched slowly past the White House, chanting and waving signs like "My Body Is Not Public Property!" and "It's Your Choice, Not Theirs!," then filled the Mall, turning it into a sea of women, men and children for the first large-scale abortion rights demonstration here in 12 years...
Los Angeles Times:Thousands March in Support of Abortion Rights
WASHINGTON--Abortion-rights supporters marched in the hundreds of thousands Sunday, galvanized by what they see as an erosion of reproductive freedoms under President Bush and foreign policies that hurt women worldwide...
...feminist Gloria Steinem accused Bush of squandering international good will and taking positions so socially conservative that he seems -- according to Steinem -- to be in league with the likes of Muslim extremists or the Vatican...
Washington Post: Abortion Rights Advocates Flood D.C.
WASHINGTON-- ...organizers said they had more than a million marchers. Although police do not issue formal crowd counts, some officers familiar with past rallies suggested this event attracted more than half a million people...
...[Sen. Hillary Clinton] told the crowd that she had attended the march in 1992. That year, she said, "We elected a pro-choice president. This year we've got to do it again." She urged the marchers, "I want you to turn to the person next to you . . . in front of you . . . behind you and ask them, 'Are you registered to vote and do you vote?' "
Behind the stage actress Candace Bergen stood with her daughter, not quite sure what to do. "Everyone's in shock that we actually have to fight for this," she said. "But there's a certain sense that things that were hard won are in jeopardy."...
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