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With a near-total abortion ban now in effect, anti-abortion protesters at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s only independent clinic feel like “they’ve won the war.” But abortion advocates aren’t ready to give up the fight. ....
Reproductive rights movement will refer back to a woman named rosie jimenez. she was a mother and a student in mcallen, texas, and she was the first documented death from an induced abortion after the hite amendment was signed in i believe 1972 or 1974. so, you know, her name and her face is used a lot in the reproductive rights movement as a testament to what happens to people who get pregnant when this kind of legislation is allowed to stand. we know in texas that when the governor and the state legislature puts forward these kinds of restrictive laws, that it s our communities that get hit first. so, you know, it s insulting, and it of course is a latino woman in texas in the rio grande valley that this happens to because we ve seen it before, and we have had to lift rosie s name up for the last many decades. ....