At the Rose Bowl, Caravan for Choice, Oct. 2, 2021 (Photo – Adrienne Griffin)
Hundreds of women rights advocates showed up at Pasadena City Hall on Saturday, Oct. 2, to lobby for “choice.”
By Ari Gutierrez Arambula
The choice refers to a woman’s right to make her own health choices, including reproductive decisions.
Over seven hundred cars, bicycles and motorcycles showed up for the caravan from Rose Bowl to Pasadena City Hall. Lauren Pressman, from Sierra Madre, described her experience: “It was amazing and inspiring! We wound through Pasadena streets from the Rose Bowl to City Hall while listening to a live broadcast of the event from City Hall on Facebook.” The Caravan for Choice events was organized by Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley, along with many other local organizations.
Over 700 cars, bicycles and motorcycles showed up (Photo – PPSGV)
The Texas legislation, recently signed into law, sets up a “bounty hunter” approach, rewarding a person who reports anyone involved in an abortion with $10,000 plus attorneys’ fees. The person “reported” could include the woman who gets an abortion, her doctor, the clinic staff or the Uber driver. Essentially anyone with whom the person seeking termination of her pregnancy confides in for moral support or medical services could sue her. Texas women are being forced to seek reproductive services in other states.
This is a novel approach to limiting the right to choose an abortion is expected to lead to the U.S. Supreme Court, thereby risking Roe vs. Wade, the abortion rights law in place for almost fifty years. Protests also were held in Downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach, New York City, Austin, Washington D.C., and many other cities across the U.S.
Caravan for Choice in Pasadena (Photo – Lauren Pressman)
“Her Body, Her Choice” sign (Photo – PPSGV)
A woman takes a photo at the end of the rally (Photo – PPSGV)
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