I wrote this paper originally in 1996—for a magazine called Sojourner: The Women’s Forum—because the issue of abortion clinic violence screamed to me: As a clinic defender, I witnessed people (mostly men and very few women) yelling violently and acting aggressively towards women going into clinics in Boston and Brookline, Mass. to get abortions. I wanted people to […]
Author: Sheila Parks
Sheila Parks, Ed.D. is an ardent feminist, internationalist, writer, activist and organizer who defended the abortion clinics with her body for many years in Brookline and Boston. She has worked for a long time against rigged elections via all the electronic voting machines and against nuclear power and nuclear weapons.