Message from Pro-Choice Movement: Dr. Leroy Carhart is a Hero
Press Advisory
January 22, 2010
worldcantwait.net
Contact: Debra Sweet
718-825-9119
What: Public Abortion Rights Presence in Support of Dr. Leroy Carhart
Near: Germantown Reproductive Health Services
13233 Executive Park Terrace Germantown, Maryland 20874
When: Sunday January 23, 2010
Dr. LeRoy Carhart, long-time colleague of Dr. George Tiller, the Wichita Kansas doctor assassinated by an anti-abortion activist in May 2009, was named “Target #1″ of Operation Rescue, after Tiller’s death. Dr. Carhart, in addition to expanding services at his Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Bellevue, Nebraska, recently began providing “advanced gestational” abortions in suburban Washington D.C. The clinic has been targeted by anti-abortion protesters.
On the eve of the annual anti-abortion march on the Supreme Court in Washington, Operation Rescue, the group who surrounded Dr. Tiller’s clinic for years, and others will hold a rally outside Germantown Reproductive Health Services where Dr. Carhart practices. World Can’t Wait is cooperating with the National Organization for Women and other abortion rights activists to gather near the clinic in a “show of visible support for Dr. Carhart and his courageous lifetime of service to women.”
Debra Sweet, Director of World Can’t Wait, stated, “Abortion is not murder, fetuses are not babies and women are not incubators. Dr. Carhart has devoted his life to providing women with crucially needed reproductive healthcare in the face of incredible intimidation. He is a hero to everyone who cares about the humanity of women. He is unapologetic and bold about the service to women he has devoted his life to, and has repeatedly challenged repressive laws restricting women’s rights, including two Supreme Court battles.”
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