Between Scylla and Charybdis: Reproductive Freedom after 9-11
        
            By Carl Pope, Executive Director, The Sierra Club
             | 11. 09. 2001
        
            Keynote Address: National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League Annual Convention
                    
                                    
                    
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                            
                              
    
  
  
    
  
          
  
      
    
            It has been twenty five years since I addressed an audience on the 
            topic of abortion rights. The last time was two years after Roe v. 
            Wade, and I was at a seminar in Washington on how to deal with the 
            anti-choice movement which was then growing rapidly. I felt, and said, 
            that our conversation seemed to assume that we were fighting a political 
            campaign, which would have an end, and that I feared we were instead 
            beginning an enduring struggle. I immediately felt horrible - as the 
            only man in the room I was the wrong messenger for that message.
          
So I was honored when I was asked to speak here today, but more than 
            ordinarily anxious about addressing an audience. This was a topic 
            on which I had let others do the speaking for a quarter of a century.
          After September 11, however, this, like so many things, changed. 
            Two weeks after the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked, 
            I attended the dinner of CARAL.
          The program included a marvelous jazz singer. She had changed her...
 
 
  
 
    
    
  
   
                        
                                                                                
                 
                                                    
                            
                                  
    
  
  
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