{"id":573,"date":"2013-01-28T03:51:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T03:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2013-01-28T03:51:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T03:51:07","slug":"january-week-4-face-ing-the-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"January week 4:  Face &#8211; ing the Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan-wk-4-women-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-574\" alt=\"Jan wk 4 - women web\" src=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan-wk-4-women-web.jpg\" width=\"436\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan-wk-4-women-web.jpg 500w, http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan-wk-4-women-web-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a>These past days have been filled with various celebrations and remembrances of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.\u00c2\u00a0 I am a (younger) baby boomer and my older \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sisters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (women of this generation) rallied in the 60s to make the case that a woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right to choose should be legally protected and guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>The rallying call this week has been \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trust women.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Trust them to make their own decisions about their health care, life choices, birth control and contraception, economical security and political directions.<\/p>\n<p>Memories of the pre-Roe v. Wade movements to secure women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rights are fading.\u00c2\u00a0 An organized movement is spending billions of dollars to chip away women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s abilities to exercise their reproductive rights.\u00c2\u00a0 Last year lawmakers passed 42 <a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan-wk-4-child-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-575\" alt=\"Jan wk 4 - child web\" src=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan-wk-4-child-web.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan-wk-4-child-web.jpg 336w, http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Jan-wk-4-child-web-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a>anti-choice measures in 25 states.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics, fortunately, tell us that the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Millennials\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the up and coming generation is overwhelmingly pro-choice.\u00c2\u00a0 Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hope they come of age politically before women are right back where we started from \u00e2\u20ac\u201c back alleys and dangerous procedures.<\/p>\n<p>To honor the past and herald the future I sought to captures a few faces of our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sisters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the San Francisco<a title=\"herrising\" href=\"http:\/\/www.herrising.org\/Her_Rising_Home__.html\" target=\"_blank\"> herrising.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both images were captured on my iPhone which is a good tool when you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to stick an intimidating large DSLR in someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These past days have been filled with various celebrations and remembrances of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. 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