Monday, March 8, 2010

Abortion providers, facilitators, defenders to speak at Jesuit university’s ‘Women’s Rights Forum’

Abortionfest at USF



By Gibbons J. Cooney 
Special to California Catholic Daily 

The University of San Francisco, a Jesuit institution, will host the "Global Women's Rights Forum" from today through Thursday, March 11. The forum is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, the Sociology Colloquium, the School of Nursing, the Politics Department, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, and curiously, the Theology and Religious Studies Department. 

The three speakers at the forum's Wednesday event, "Bringing Home the right to Health: Critical Interventions in Women's Health Care," are Lori Freedman, visiting scholar at the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at UCSF; Destiny Lopez, executive director, ACCESS, Oakland; and Eve Zaritsky, a physician at Oakland Kaiser, and the medical director of the Women's Community Clinic, San Francisco. 


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