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SAN DIEGO COUNTY NOW JOINS THE FIGHT TO
REPEAL THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT
We are
proud supporters of the efforts to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage
Act (DOMA). San Diego County NOW contributed to the
local rally in support of DOMA’s repeal, held in San Diego on January 10,
2009. Organized by the San Diego Equality Campaign, an
impressive number (almost 1,000!) of local residents marched in support of
equality rights and the freedom to marry for all.
Abortion
Rights and Reproductive Freedom
In 1967 NOW became the first national organization to call for the
legalization of abortion and for the repeal of all anti-abortion laws. Since
then NOW has been fighting for full reproductive rights for all
women, including poor women and young women. NOW won pivotal U.S. Supreme
Court victory in the 1994 case NOW v. Scheidler.
The ruling affirmed NOW's right to use federal racketeering laws against
anti-abortion extremists who organize campaigns of fear, force and violence
to deny women their right to abortion. In April 1998, a federal jury
returned a unanimous verdict confirming NOW's charges that Joe Scheidler, Operation Rescue and other defendants are
racketeers. NOW's litigation and lobbying are part of Project Stand Up for
Women, which has trained thousands of abortion rights supporters to
serve as clinic defenders. Find several documents related to this case at http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/scheidlr.html.
NOW's advocacy efforts to ensure access to abortion for all women
include lobbying against restrictions on Medicaid funding, parental
involvement, elimination of abortion from federal government and military
health insurance coverage and abortion procedure bans. Likewise, NOW's commitment to full
reproductive rights led to work against child exclusion measures in the
1996 federal welfare repeal and coerced sterilization.
San Diego County NOW is an annual sponsor of the Coalition for
Reproductive Choice’s Roe v. Wade Anniversary dinner. This year’s dinner will be held on January 22, 2009. For more information, please contact
Chair Linda Cianciolo at
elsieesq@aol.com.
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