[act-ma] Celebrate the Life of Dr. Edelin, Defend Right to Abortion

[Boston Militant Labor Forum]

                                                          The Militant Labor Forum
Presents:
 
Defend a
Woman’s Right to Abortion
Celebrate
the life of Dr. Kenneth Edelin


                                                   Friday, January 31, 7:30 pm
 
13
Bennington Street, 2nd floor, East Boston


 Kenneth Edelin, a Boston physician and
life-long champion of women’s rights who gained national attention through a
successful fight against an anti-abortion frame-up, died of cancer Dec. 30 at
age 74.
   In 1973 — the same
year of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling that decriminalized abortion —
Edelin became the first African-American to serve as chief resident in
Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston City Hospital. Two years later he was
charged with manslaughter over an abortion and convicted in a trial marked by
racist bigotry. His defense campaign became intertwined with the fight for
Black rights and school desegregation that was raging in the city at that time,
strengthening both the struggles for women’s emancipation and against racist
discrimination.
   Today with abortion rights
under attack come to a discussion on how to defend a woman’s right to abortion
looking back at the life and fight of Kenneth Edelin.

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