Abortion: a woman's right to choose [pinback button] by Women's National Abortion Action Coalition - [197-]

New York: Women's National Abortion Action Coalition,, [1971]. A striking original poster publicizing the first abortion rights march on Washington DC, part of a series of events on 20 November 1971 which constituted the largest protests for women's rights since the suffrage campaign over 50 years before. The poster, which depicts a silhouetted female figure with a clenched first looking upwards to the female gender symbol, reiterates the main aims - "Repeal anti abortion laws", "Against forced sterilization and restrictive contraception laws" - and gives the location of and ticket price for buses leaving New York City for Washington. Small type beneath states "Men Welcome To March". WONAAC was founded on 19 July 1971 at a national conference held at Columbia University, attended by over 1,000 women from 23 states. The organization's 16 September newsletter details arrangements for the aforementioned march, including a motion proposing "that the march route duplicate that of the Suffragists" and an… Read More