Pro-Choice Catholics Plaster March for Life With Posters
Thousands of people, including youth, protested against safe and legal abortion in Washington, D.C., last week for the annual 鈥.鈥 The gatherings have generally attracted right-wing politicians and other media personalities seeking to politicize the issue of abortion and use religious scripture to justify forced births.聽
But this year, also showed up to the march to engage in via provocative displayed all along the march route. The colorful posters featured questions such as 鈥淚s the March for Life Pro-Life or Pro-Birth?鈥 and 鈥淣ot sure how to feel about abortion? You鈥檙e not alone.鈥澛
Although many of the posters were vandalized, Jamie L. Manson, president of Catholics for Choice, explained the importance of shifting religious narratives around abortion in an interview with 猫咪社区! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined 猫咪社区! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥 in her 2014聽聽of the same name.
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