VENTURA : Group Celebrates Abortion Ruling
About 40 abortion-rights supporters gathered in a Ventura church Monday evening to mark the anniversary of a 1973 Supreme Court ruling that upheld a woman’s right to abortion.
The event was sponsored by the Ventura-Oxnard Chapter of the National Organization for Women.
The group watched a film, “Abortion: For Survival,” which pictured abortion as a necessary alternative for women. Afterward, they formed a circle outside, held candles and recounted why they had come.
County residents who oppose abortion have also taken note of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion nationwide 18 years ago.
On Sunday, 3,000 to 4,000 people from religious and anti-abortion groups in the area formed a five-mile zigzag along Victoria Avenue, Telephone Road, Mills Road and Main Street in Ventura to protest abortion, police said. The men, women and children created what they described as a Life Chain.
“It was a statement to the community that abortion is wrong,” said organizer Ray Connelly. Connelly said the protesters were drawn from more than 80 churches in the county.
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