Act Now to Help Embattled Birmingham Clinic!

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Eleanor Smeal & Katherine Spillar wrote:
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> Feminist Majority Foundation
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> Dear feminist friend,
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> We need your help! The New Woman All Women Heath Care clinic in Birmingham, Alabama is facing a siege by the anti-abortion group Operation Save America in July.
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> This clinic has been the target of extreme anti-abortion violence. Remember, this very clinic was bombed by Eric Robert Rudolph in 1998, killing a security guard and severely injuring a nurse.
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> We must do all we can to keep this clinic safe and open. They need our help now. Please donate today - half of your contribution will go directly to the Birmingham clinic to defray legal and security costs and half will go to our clinic defense team working to protect this clinic as well as many other women's health clinics across the nation.
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> Our senior field organizer just returned from Birmingham where she met with clinic staff and law enforcement officials to prepare for the siege. This clinic is important because it is one of the few clinics in Alabama that serves patients from across the state and from as far away as Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi. In the weeks leading up to the event, and during the protests themselves, the Feminist Majority Foundation will provide critical security assistance to keep clinic workers and patients safe.
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> We have worked with the New Woman All Women clinic for more than 13 years?first in 1994 when we mobilized and trained hundreds of volunteers and succeeded in keeping the clinic safe and open during Operation Save America's "Holy Week Passion for Life" protests. And we were there again in 1998, less than 24 hours after the Rudolph bombing, helping the clinic to clean up and reopen and assisting law enforcement in their investigation.
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> Now, a Birmingham pastor is inviting Operation Save America to "let us bring glory and honor to God by finishing the work that was begun in Birmingham thirteen years ago." Operation Save America is promoting the Birmingham siege on their web site, saying their goal is to "push what is left of the abortion industry into a deep grave." How outrageous! Make sure that doesn't happen!
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> Please donate now to protect this embattled clinic. Without clinics, there is no choice for women.
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> For Women's Lives,
> Ellie Smeal
> Eleanor Smeal
> President Kathy Spillar
> Kathy Spillar
> Executive Editor
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> Act Now to Help Embattled Birmingham Clinic!
> Donate now to protect Birmingham's New Woman All Women Health Care clinic. Help us keep abortion safe, legal, and accessible in Alabama!
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