[scimc-news] Walk for Choice Santa Cruz says "Keep Your Politics Off My Body"

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Walk for Choice Santa Cruz says "Keep Your Politics Off My Body"

On February 26th, more than a hundred people united energetically in Santa Cruz, along with cities across the nation, to demonstrate their disgust with systemic violence against women. At noon, people converged at the Clock Tower before marching down Pacific Avenue to Laurel St. People chanted "Not the Church, Not the State. Women must decide their fate" as they continued up Laurel St. and onto Mission St. / Highway 1 where there was a brief occupation of the Mission and Bay intersection.

The demonstrations were organized in response to HR-3, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act." In large measure, it would render permanent the restrictions on federal funding of abortion in the United States laid out in the Hyde Amendment.

The Hyde Amendment currently bans all federal money from going to abortions, except in cases of incest or rape. The GOP's HR-3 will change this language to "incest or forcible rape." This makes women prove somehow that their rape was "forced", for her to be able to access abortion. This reinforces the idea that some rape is not as serious as others. 

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http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/26/18673151.php

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