pro-choice movement: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	abortion rights movement • reproductive justice movement
Location	United States

Photos

Activists march in Los Angeles holding large black-and-white portraits of Becky Bell and Rosie Jimenez, women who died due to lack of legal abortion access.

Abortion rights activists cheer and hold signs reading "Everyone deserves access to safe abortion care" and "Protect abortion access".

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Topics

abortion Roe v. Wade American civil rights movement Boston Tea Party progressivism Black nationalism environmental justice Granger movement Burning of the Gaspee Young America Movement Antirent War Populist Movement

Key People

The real “Roe”

Norma McCorvey

American activist