Word: support
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Glynn, who is a PSLM member, said she and fellow protesters would try to implement non-violent "direct action" to support their cause, rather than resort to the kind of vandalism that marked last year's Seattle marches...
...Sheley '02 argue that abortion-rights activism should be eliminated from Take Back The Night week because "abortion is not an issue of gender-based violence." Germer and Sheley are correct that not all women at Harvard favor abortion rights, but their argument ignores the intimate connection between support for abortion rights and the ongoing battle against sexual violence...
...assault is that it involves the alienation of a woman or man from control over her or his own body. The introduction of physical or psychological coercion into sex attacks the very core of bodily determination and the right to control one's sexual, reproductive, and emotional life. The support for abortion rights is predicated on the same principles: women must have the right to control their own bodies and determine when and if they want to become mothers. The battle against sexual violence in this country has always been intimately linked with abortion-rights activism because of the natural...
...Over the past few days there has been a tremendous outpouring of support and concern for her from the community, and especially from her fellow students," Vest said, "but only time can ease the grief that we feel. We are in mourning...
...going to support the process that's been established," said committee member Joseph G. Grassi, who said he still objected to many specifics...