“We’re going to demonstrate just how many people across the country are willing to stand up and fight for women’s health and rights,” read a statement posted on istandwithpp.org. According to a poll conducted Sept. 24-28 by USAToday/Suffolk University, responses were 2 to 1 — 65 percent to 29 percent — in favor of continuing federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
A noon rally in New York City, attended by several hundred mostly women of all ages and nationalities, was held in Foley Square opposite the federal building. In addition to several city politicians, young women talked about the quality of services they received from Planned Parenthood and why the fight for reproductive rights was linked to the Black Lives Matter movement. Spoken-word poet, performance artist from Jamaica and lesbian-gay-bi-trans-queer rights political activist Staceyanne Chin roused the crowd when she detailed why women must have the right to choose to be mothers, based her own experience.
In addition to handing out the Sept. 24 Workers World headlined “Defend Planned Parenthood: Stop the war on poor women,” WW organizers held signs reading, “Defund the Pentagon, not Planned Parenthood” and “Health care is a human right, reproductive justice now!”
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