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| FMF's second award-winning videotape, Abortion Denied:
Shattering Lives, documents the devastating effect
of parental consent and notification laws on young women.
The video features Karen and Bill Bell, whose daughter,
Becky died on September 16, 1988 as a result of an illegal,
back-alley abortion due to Indiana's parental consent law.
The videotape is awarded the prestigious Cine Golden Eagle
Award in l990. |
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Karen and Bill Bell join forces with the Feminist Majority
Foundation for the Becky
Bell Campaign, a national campaign against parental consent
and notification laws. |
The Feminist Majority Foundation organizes delegation of
feminist leaders and prominent scientists to travel to Europe
to meet with Roussel Uclaf and Hoechst AG to urge introduction
of RU 486 to the United States.
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Feminist Majority Foundation Board Chair Peg Yorkin,
Foundation President Eleanor Smeal and Foundation Director
of Policy and Research Jennifer Jackman prepare petitions
to present to pharmaceutical executives. |
| The delegation presents Dr. Edouard Sakiz, CEO of
Roussel Uclaf, with 800 lbs. of petitions for RU 486
at the pharmaceutical company's Paris headquarters. Over 700,000
petitions were delivered to Roussel Uclaf and Hoechst AG over
the course of the Foundation's seven-year campaign. |
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The Feminist Majority Foundation announces first Feminist
of the Year Awards. The Feminist Majority Foundation's 1990
Feminist of the Year awards are presented to ABC News Anchor
Carol Simpson; Harvard Law School Professor Derek Bell; University
of Iowa Medical School Professor Dr. Jean Jew; Ireland President
Mary Robinson; Saudia Arabian women protesters; Ms. Editor Robin
Morgan; Des Moines Register Editor Geneva Overholser and Rape
Survivor Nancy Ziegenmeyer; Boson Herald Sports Reporter Lisa
Olson; Comedian Nora Dunn; Texas Governor Ann Richards; Los Angeles
City Council Member Gloria Molina; Southwest Missouri State University
Student Newspaper Editor Traci Bauer; and Brown University student
protestors.
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Feminization of Power Campus Campaign launches to
increase the number of women in student leadership positions.
Campaign helps to elect young women to student government
president in several colleges and to the board of trustees
of several universities. |
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