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Ellen Convisser, president of the Boston branch of the National Organization for Women (NOW), says students are "the heart of the [abortion rights] movement and will continue to be." She says about 6000 participants from the Boston area came to the Washington rally.
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About 450 campuses sent delegations to the main rally in Washington, D.C., and to about 1000 other abortion rights demonstrations across the nation.
And Cornell activist Janette M. Hillis was disappointed that only about 350 of the university's 12,000 undergraduates attended the rally. At Cornell, she says, "People are so uptight about work that they forget about the world out there."
Bowman says that college-age women are particularly interested in abortion issues since about 80 percent of the abortions in this country are performed on women aged between 15 and 29.