Wellesley Women Hang On To Choice

Last week, Women for Choice at Wellesley College, Tennessee began flooding Governor Bredesen’s office with letters urging him to veto any and all future anti choice legislation.

The letters were attached to coat hangers – long the symbol of the dangerous back alley abortions that were common in the U.S. before the passage of Roe v. Wade.

Today, dangerous back alley abortions continue to be common in countries that outlaw and even crimianlize abortion, such as certain parts of Latin America.

70,000 women die annually from illegal abortions.

As of today, the Women for Choice group at Wellesley have mailed 660 Hang on to Choice letters to Governor Phil Bredesen. The letters are part of the Hang on to Choice campaign.

While the Democratic Governor is said to be pro choice, he has yet to take any action that demonstrates a pro choice stance. Governor Bredesen did not sign or veto the Choose Life specialty license legislation, thereby "passively permitting it to become the law."

A Tennessee bill that would outlaw abortion in this state -- and permit NO exceptions for rape, incest or to save the life of a woman – passed in the senate by a vote of 24 to 9!

While SJR 127 was voted down in a House committee, there is still time in this session for the bill to be resurrected.