Vermont
Hundreds Rally in Montpelier for Abortion Rights
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Daria Bishop
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Hosted by the Deliberate Parenthood Vermont Motion Fund, the “Bans Off Our Our bodies Rally” was one in every of tons of abortion rights occasions held nationwide. In Vermont, the place state regulation ensures the best to abortion, the rally reaffirmed assist for the Reproductive Liberty Modification, or Prop 5, which might enshrine that proper within the state structure. Vermont voters will weigh in on Prop 5 in November.
Among the many attendees have been a trio of ladies, ages 79 to 85, from Waitsfield who sat underneath a tree in folding chairs amid unseasonably heat temperatures.
“It’s appalling that we now have to do that time and again and it hasn’t resulted in everlasting change,” Alice Evans, 82, informed Seven Days.
The Kat Wright Trio kicked off the occasion with music, adopted by audio system that included U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); Kiah Morris, government director of Rights & Democracy; Kell Arbor of the Pleasure Middle of Vermont; Indi Schoenherr, an advocacy fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont; and Catarina Campbell, a former board member of Deliberate Parenthood and the ACLU of Vermont.
Many attendees waved indicators with sayings resembling “Reproductive rights are human rights”; “Public cervix announcement: Fuck you”; and “Pressured delivery = violence.”
Linda Siegel, 70, attended the rally together with her daughter Amy Seigel and granddaughter Charlotte Lang. Siegel mentioned she was a school scholar in central Pennsylvania in 1972 — earlier than the Roe v. Wade determination — and a housemate tried to carry out an abortion on herself in a downstairs corridor lavatory.
“Classmates chipped in what they may to pay for a authorized abortion in New York,” Siegel mentioned. “We needed to discover somebody to drive her so she was in a position to have a secure process.”
Siegel has three daughters, three granddaughters and three grandsons.
“I need all of them to have the liberty to regulate their very own our bodies, futures and reproductive freedoms,” she mentioned.