Vol. 75/No. 26      July 18, 2011

The nine days of anti-women’s rights actions are directed at Dr. LeRoy Carhart, one of a small handful of doctors who perform abortions beyond the 21st week of pregnancy.

Rightist actions will include “street rallies” and “prayer events,” says Operation Rescue’s website. “The event will culminate on Sunday, August 7 at 2:00 p.m. with attendees forming a unique ‘Cross 4 Life’ along the streets near Carhart’s late-term abortion clinic in Germantown.”

Carhart has been performing abortions at the Germantown Reproductive Health Services clinic since early December. He worked with Dr. George Tiller for 11 years until Tiller was murdered in May 2009 by rightist Scott Roeder.

Some 400 opponents of a woman’s right to choose picketed the clinic last January 23. The rightists were answered by about two dozen pro-choice demonstrators.

The 45th national conference of the National Organization for Women, held in Tampa, Florida, June 24-26, adopted a resolution backing the Maryland abortion rights actions and similar activities in Orlando, Florida, July 16-23, where Operation Rescue has also announced demonstrations.

Members of the Socialist Workers Party found interest among a layer of the 400 participants at the conference in discussing the fight for women’s liberation as a fundamental part of the working-class struggle to replace the crisis-ridden system of capitalist rule with that of working people. Seventeen signed up for subscriptions and two dozen bought single copies.  
 
 
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