Internationalist leaflet: Defend Abortion Clinics!

[VivalaCuarta]

Distributed at recent protests.

[Fourth Internationalist]

Very good leaflet! Thank you for posting.

[QueerVanguard]

pretty good, but I would have chosen slightly more militant language.

[VivalaCuarta]

pretty good, but I would have chosen slightly more militant language.

Thanks, what do you mean by more militant? Do you think your different language would reflect political disagreement?

[Sewer Socialist]

Where are you organizing your demos? Outside PP (are you American?)? Or at a more high-traffic area?

[VivalaCuarta]

So far (in response to this latest attack) there have been emergency demonstrations in downtown areas of some major U.S. cities. IG supporters have handed out this leaflet there.

When we say labor defend abortion clinics we mean it. A small propaganda group can't always and immediately overcome the opposition of the union bureaucracy, NGO types, etc. on this, but I know IG supporters try to do it where possible.

[Fourth Internationalist]

pretty good, but I would have chosen slightly more militant language.


Thanks, what do you mean by more militant? Do you think your different language would reflect political disagreement?

I'm curious about this as well.

[Sewer Socialist]

That's cool. I've been thinking about organizing demonstrations in defense of abortion clinics even before that reactionary shot up the clinic in Colorado Springs.

I've been thinking it would be best to demonstrate outside the actual clinics, as there are often anti- abortion demonstrators who harass people trying to have an often traumatic medical procedure. I think there are only two or three clinics in my city which do this.

I like the "free abortion, any time, on demand, without apology" sort of stance (I'm paraphrasing, but I may make my own flyer based on this).

[blake 3:17]

Poeple interested might get something from this article by a long time organizer with Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics:


Clinic defence
OCAC organized defence of the clinics, rejecting the argument that it should be left to the police to protect the facilities. We would link arms, chanting, “Racist, sexist, anti-gay: born-again bigots, go away” and “Campaign Life: your name’s a lie. You don’t care if women die!” These chants reflected the politics of the campaign. The broad support created the political pressure to defeat the legislation in the Senate in 1991, after it narrowly passed in the House of Commons.
There are now over 30 freestanding clinics providing funded abortions across the country. Access is much wider than when the campaign began in the early 1980s and sexual health services are more widely available, but the fight for reproductive justice is far from over. Prince Edward Island is still forcing women to go to the mainland to access abortions, and New Brunswick refuses to fund clinic procedures. Hospital amalgamations and healthcare cuts are reducing reproductive services in many areas. Women are still being harassed as they enter clinics.
The Conservative government initially refused to fund International Planned Parenthood and now gives money on the condition that it be allocated only in countries where abortion is illegal. There is no national childcare program, equal pay for work of equal value is still a dream for many, employment equity has not been implemented, systemic discrimination still exists and many of the other services necessary for women to have real choices in their lives are not in place. Private members’ bills are regularly being introduced in the House of Commons to create barriers for women. To date, all have been defeated.

http://rabble.ca/news/2013/01/twenty-five-years-how-we-won-abortion-rights