August 25, 2013 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
David Gunn Jr, son of the first of eight abortion providers who have been murdered by anti-abortion assassins, speaks at the August 17 rally to defend the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic. Statements of support were sent by feminist author and activist Gloria Steinem, actor Mark Ruffalo and many others. Ruffalo’s statement began: “I am a man. I could say this has nothing to do with me. Except I have two daughters and I have a mother who was forced to illegally have an abortion in her state …it was a traumatizing thing for her. It was shameful and sleazy and demeaning. When I heard the story I was aghast by the lowliness of a society that would make a woman do that. I could not understand its lack of humanity; today is no different.”
See statements from Gloria Steinem and Mark Ruffalo at StopPatriarchy.org.
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