Monday, April 26, 2004

Abortion Rights Supporters March on Washington

The March for Women's Lives took place on Sunday in Washington, D.C., as thousands of women marched to show their support of abortion rights. The participants included "thousands of mother-daughter duos" and women representing "three or even four generations of a family."

Twenty-five-year-old Ashley Theil wasn't yet born when her mother began her push for abortion rights. "It's time for young people to speak out in support of abortion," Ashley said, standing alongside her mother, Lynda. "If abortion had been completely legal and if my mom had wanted to abort me a little over 25 years ago, well, I wouldn't be here today. That's a right that I am willing to fight for." When asked if she would keep up the multi-generational fight for abortion rights and bring her own future daughter to a march twenty years from now, Ashley looked doubtful and replied: "What future daughter? That's the whole point of the march, right?"

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