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The Feminist Majority Foundation is founded by Peg Yorkin,
Eleanor Smeal, Katherine Spillar, Toni Carabillo, and Judith Meuli.
The Foundation's mission is to create innovative, cutting-edge
research, educational programs, and strategies to further women's
equality and empowerment, to reduce violence toward women, to
increase the health and economic well-being of women, and to eliminate
discrimination of all kinds.
NEW INITIATIVE - The Feminist Majority Foundation begins
a National Clinic Defense
Project to defend women's health clinics from anti-abortion
extremists and to safeguard every woman's constitutional right
to choose to have an abortion.
VICTORY - FMF successfully defends some 94 clinics
in the greater Los Angeles and Orange County areas from Operation
Rescue blockades. Operation Rescue had announced prior to the
attempted siege that it would make Los Angeles the first abortion
free city. FMF recruits and trains over 7,000 volunteers in Southern
California to defend clinics.
| NEW INITIATIVE - After meeting with leading scientists
and physicians in the U.S. and Europe, the Foundation launches
a Campaign for RU 486
and Contraceptive Research. Based in the Foundation's
Boston Office, the Campaign presses for immediate access
to RU 486 as a method of early abortion in the U.S. and increased
testing on the drug's promise as a treatment for menigioma,
breast cancer, Cushing's Syndrome, endometriosis, and other
serious diseases. |
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| Feminist Majority Foundation produces an award-winning video,
Abortion for Survival. The videotape, produced
by Peg Yorkin and Eleanor Smeal, opens with
the performance of a 6-weeks abortion which takes 1 minute
24 seconds. The videotape, shown three times on Turner Broadcasting
System, also reveals what was extracted from the uterus. Abortion
for Survival reviews the need for abortion worldwide because
of the lack of access to affordable contraception and the
desire of women to limit their family size or control births.
The videotape is awarded the prestigious Cine Golden Eagle
award in 1989. |
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Monument to the Unknown Women - November 11, l989
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In conjunction with the NOW Mobilization for Women's Lives,
the Feminist Majority Foundation is commissioned to create
a monument "IN MEMORY OF THE COURAGEOUS WOMEN WHO DIED
FROM ILLEGAL UNSAFE ABORTIONS BECAUSE THEY HAD NO CHOICE."
Vice President Toni Carabillo wrote these words lest
we forget these women and the price they paid for choice.
The monument, which appeared so realistic that tourists complained
it was not on official guide maps, was erected on the grounds
close to the Washington Monument. |
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