International Women's Day

This is a bag made in honor of Margaret Sanger, a champion and advocate for women's reproductive freedom. I made it in January 2001, in response to George W. Bush's signing a bill, on his very first day in the Presidential Office, removing US funding from any organization worldwide which counsel's reproductive freedom for women, including contraception and abortion.

Another woman who responded to the signing of that restrictive bill is Jane Roberts, who founded 34 Million Friends. The original intent of her organization is to replace that restricted $34 million in funding with $1 from 34 million people. 34 Million Friends has joined with the United Nations Population Fund to help promote women's health and reproductive rights worldwide.

NARAL, founded in 1969 to help repeal abortion laws in the United States, is currently collecting signatures in a petition drive called Prevention First, urging Congress to approve and support contraception, and sex education, as a means of preventing sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, circumventing a need for abortion.

Donate a dollar, sign a petition. Help the women of the world help their daughters, families, and communities.