To the Editors:

On April 25 we will be standing up for women around the world. We will be marching to show this administration and the world that our bodies and our rights are not on the bargaining table! Students United for Reproductive Freedom (obersurf@
fastmail.fm) and the OC American Civil Liberties Union (aclu@oberlin.edu) are collaborating to bring Oberlin students to the March for Women’s Lives in Washington, D.C. this April. We urge you to sign up in the basement of Wilder any afternoon this week and next to join us on this historic trip.

The right to an abortion that the Roe v. Wade ruling secured for women in this country only 31 years ago hangs by nothing but a thread. Since the beginning of the Bush presidency, women around the world have been put at risk by irresponsible policies of the administration. From Bush’s first act in office, reinstating the global gag rule which prohibits any overseas family planning organization that even provides information about abortion from receiving US funding, to consistently supporting anti-choice judges, this administration continues to senselessly put women’s lives at risk.

We ask this of you: think about how important these rights are to you — talk to your mothers, aunts, grandmothers, etc. and ask them what it was like “before.” Chances are they will remember. Now ask yourself if you are willing to spend one day in April fighting to keep the Bush administration from turning back the clock on reproductive rights.

–Elizabeth Maki
College first-year
–Valerie Baron
College sophomore