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- Center for Choice in Mobile Alabama Executive Director Pat Mitchell explains why she keeps going despite the shootings, anthrax, arson, and harassment, from “The Fragile Promise of Choice: Abortion in the United States Today”, a documentary directed by Dorothy Fadiman and produced by Beth Seltzer (1996).
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- Pat Mitchell, Executive Director of the Center for Choice in Mobile, Alabama. It is the only clinic in the Mobile, Alabama/Pensacola, Florida area where a doctor has not been killed.
- Jennifer Parker, executive director of a group called Access, which is a hotline and resource for women seeking abortions.
- Dr. Jody Steinauer, OB-GYN at the University of California — San Francisco, and founder of Medical Students for Choice.
Related links:
- Center for Choice
- A listing of Feminist Women’s Health Centers and other links to abortion clinics around the country
- Access
- Medical Students for Choice
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