December 2, 2015
Letter from National Radical Women to Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood
Radical Women sends all the staff, nurses, doctors and volunteers at the clinic
our deepest support and solidarity. We are sorry for the disruption to your lives and
safety that everyone there must be experiencing.
It is outrageous that you face gunfire for providing women's health care and
abortions. The anti-abortion, misogynist right wing would send us back to a time
when women were property, valued only for the ability to bear children and provide
free labor in the home. You are frontline fighters in a battle against their ideology
and for women's equality.
We honor your courage in continuing to provide reproductive health services
in the face of deadly harassment. And we pledge to continue organizing for full
reproductive justice.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help. Radical Women
doesn't have a chapter in Colorado Springs. But we do have members who are veteran
clinic defenders and abortion rights organizers who could share their experiences.
Members have also traveled to participate in abortion rights actions. So please let us
know if you decide to call for national mobilizations.
In solidarity,
Anne Slater
National Organizer