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At 21, Jelena Woehr describes herself as a feminist, focusing on issues such as domestic violence and improved career opportunities for women. Yes, she also supports abortion rights. But that wasn’t her emphasis until Congress began considering potential restrictions on insurance coveragfe for abortion. Now, she’s joined many other young feminists in mobilizing to protect a right they thought had been settled long ago. “People of my generation do not remember when abortion wasn’t safe, legal and available and it’s been a shock to think we might not have that right,” said the Colorado resident, a part-time student and Internet content developer. Other young activists, though, are sitting out the fight, as the latest skirmish over abortion has exposed a proxy battle over the issue and its place on the contemporary feminist agenda. Among many younger feminists, the matter of abortion rights, so central to the women’s movement of the 1970s, does not confer the urgency it once did. For them
Health bill revives abortion issue for young women By BETH FOUHY (AP) – 40 minutes ago NEW YORK — At 21, Jelena Woehr describes herself as a feminist, focusing on issues such as domestic violence and improved career opportunities for women. Yes, she also supports abortion rights. But that wasn’t her emphasis until Congress began considering potential restrictions on insurance coveragfe for abortion. Now, she’s joined many other young feminists in mobilizing to protect a right they thought had been settled long ago. “People of my generation do not remember when abortion wasn’t safe, legal and available and it’s been a shock to think we might not have that right,” said the Colorado resident, a part-time student and Internet content developer. Other young activists, though, are sitting out the fight, as the latest skirmish over abortion has exposed a proxy battle over the issue and its place on the contemporary feminist agenda. Among many younger feminists, the matter of abortion rights,
