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By Diane Taylor
THE GUARDIAN , LONDON
Sunday, Apr 25, 2004,Page 9

Hundreds of thousands of American women are expected to converge on Washington today for a march the organizers claim will be the biggest in the history of women's rights -- the March For Women's Lives.

Banners will call for the protection in law of a woman's right to abortion, which US President George W. Bush and his chums on the Christian right have energetically been trying to erode. The right to abortion is an issue that attracts a large consensus across different groups of women, and Uma Thurman, Charlize Theron, Cindy Crawford and Jennifer Aniston are just some of its high-profile supporters. Heavyweight liberal groups such as the National Organization of Women and the American Civil Liberties Union will be marching alongside small local groups.

The battle between activists supporting and opposing abortion rights is well known, but another fight about the fetus has been less publicized: State prosecutors are telling American women exactly what they can and can't do when they are pregnant -- and those who disobey are ending up in jail.

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