Julie Burkhart
Julie Burkhart is the founder and executive director of Trust Women PAC(www.trustwomenpac.org), a pro-woman, pro-choice organization that works to expand access to full spectrum reproductive health care, focusing on the Southern and Midwestern United States and educates voters and lobbies legislatures in target states in support of bills that protect the reproductive rights of women.
She has written a very enlightening article on the Women’s Media Center website on how much power women have on their reproductive rights in the US. It's really good to know how little power women actually have. Read the intro below:
In the current wave of state legislature proposals, the threat to a woman’s reproductive rights goes far beyond whether or not she can choose abortion, as the founder of Trust Women PAC explains.
When we think of reproductive health and rights, we think of protestors, Roe v. Wade, the struggle for equality, difficult choices, bullets, bombs, bloodshed and abortion. For more than 35 years, the fight for a woman’s right to control reproduction has centered on the singular event of abortion. But the realm of reproductive rights is much more than abortion, political talking points and sensationalized headlines. It is about the worth of a woman and the continuum of individual fertility and all aspects of pregnancy.
For the full article visit: http://womensmediacenter.com/blog/2011/04/exclusive-the-birth-police%E2%80%94rights-of-pregnant-women-and-their-families/
About Julie Burkhart: She first chaired the Wichita Choice Alliance, she worked for seven years side by side with Dr. George Tiller, who was murdered in 2009 for trusting in women to make choices about abortion, became his clinic’s spokeswoman and then became CEO of ProKanDo, created by Dr. Tiller as the largest political action committee in Kansas.
About George Richard Tiller, MD (August 8, 1941 – May 31, 2009): He was an American physician from Wichita, Kansas. He was the medical director of a clinic in Wichita, Women's Health Care Services, one of only three nationwide which provided abortions after the 21st week of pregnancy (known as late-term abortion). The Pro-life group, Operation Rescue, kept a daily vigil outside Tiller's clinic for many years: first the national group, then later, a branch that moved from California to Kansas specifically to focus on Tiller. On August 19, 1993, outside of the Wichita clinic, Tiller was shot in both arms by Shelley Shannon, who received an 11-year prison sentence for the crime of attempted murder. On May 31, 2009, Tiller was shot through the eye and killed, by anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder, as Tiller served as an usher during the Sunday morning service at his church in Wichita. Jurors deliberated 40 minutes before convicting Roeder of murder on January 29, 2010.
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