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U.S. divided over Roe’s repeal as In total he dedicated 36 years to
abortion foes gird for march Aruba’s tourism
A.T.A. thanks Ed Malone for
nine years as Director for
North America

Anti-abortion activists march outside of the U.S. Supreme Court during the March for Life in Wash-
ington, Jan. 21, 2022. Page 7
Associated Press
By DAVID CRARY ballot measures in Kansas, Michigan and
AP National Writer Kentucky. State courts have blocked sev-
Anti-abortion activists will have multiple eral bans from taking effect. And myriad Minister Dangui Oduber
reasons to celebrate — and some reasons efforts are underway to help women in
for unease — when they gather Friday in abortion-ban states either get abortions Aruba’s Minister of Tourism
Washington for the annual March for Life. out of state or use the abortion pill for self- Mr. Dangui Oduber enjoyed
The march, which includes a rally drawing managed abortions.
abortion opponents from across the na- “It’s almost like the old wild, wild West … a lovely conversation with a
tion, has been held annually since Janu- everything is still shaking out,” said Carol
ary 1974 — a year after the U.S. Supreme Tobias, president of the National Right to couple from U.S.A
Court’s Roe v. Wade decision established Life Committee. With numerous Demo-
a nationwide right to abortion. cratic-governed states taking steps to pro-
This year’s gathering — 50 years after that tect and expand abortion access, Tobias
decision — will be the first since the high likened the current situation to the pre-Civil
court struck down Roe in a momentous rul- War era when the nation was closely divid-
ing last June. ed between free states and slave states.
Since then, 12 Republican-governed “I will not be surprised if we have some-
states have implemented sweeping bans thing like that for a few years,” she said.
on abortion, and several others seek to “But I do know that pro-lifers are not going
do the same. But those moves have been to give up — it’s a civil rights issue for us.”
offset by other developments. Abortion Page 9
opponents were defeated in votes on Continued on Page 2