Abortion: Viva La France
March, 1989
It was a beautifully orchestrated media event. In Atlanta, anti-abortion groups had a field day, screaming at women on their way to clinics, blockading hospitals, offering themselves for arrest. The images bore a curious resemblance to images from the civil rights movement of the Sixties, but there's a major difference between the two movements: While the civil rights supporters fought to obtain rights, the right-to-lifers seek to deny rights.The anti-abortion movement was also flexing its muscl...
