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Dresden's march was authorized by authorities and led by Mayor Wolfgang Berghofer and the reformminded local party chief, Hans Modrow. ADN said it was the first officially approved demonstration in the city...
DESPITE the urgency of the abortion war, officers of Harvard/Radcliffe Students for Choice say that with less than one week to go before the Second National Mobilization for Women's Lives, only half the number of Harvard representatives that participated in last year's march have signed up to go to the capital. Thus far only six busloads of students are scheduled to join the Harvard contingent on Sunday, as compared to 11 last spring...
Last April an estimated 900 people from the University attended the first-of-its-kind March on Washington to defend a woman's right to choose an abortion. The national situation has since become more grave for defenders of this right, with an increasingly antagonistic Republican administration in office and a Supreme Court handing down decisions like this past July's answer in Webster v. Reproductive Services, which made it legal for a state to restrict a woman's access to abortion...
...reasons for participating in this week's march are many. We are in the midst of election time--candidates must be shown that men and women nationwide are not about to silently sit back and let Washington take away abortion rights. And the states, to whom the Supreme Court is passing the ball, must be told that the debate over choice is a national, constitutional issue and that they should not only protect choice but also provide funding for poorer women seeking abortions...
...time to stand up for these rights which seem to be slipping away before our very eyes. Defenders of choice should make every effort to attend the march this weekend. But the pro-choice movement need not start or end with the march on Washington. Massachusetts promises to be an important battleground for the abortion issue, and students should join marches at the state House as well as at the Capitol. In addition, there is a petition circulating in Harvard Square and in many of the houses that calls for abortion to be protected as a clear constitutional right...