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  Against Abortion but in Favor of Choice
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Last EditedJR725  Apr 27, 2004 07:20pm
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MediaNewspaper - New York Times
News DateMonday, April 26, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionWASHINGTON, April 25 — Daniela Taveras could never have an abortion. Fabiola Peña believes it is morally wrong. Estrella Flores shakes her head at the thought. They were raised to view abortion as sin, in Latin American countries where it is illegal.

Just after dawn Sunday, these women boarded a bus with 32 other immigrants in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and left the New York area, many of them for the first time since coming to the United States. They headed to the march in Washington. But they did not go as anti-abortion protesters; they went to march for abortion rights.

"One has to respect a person's freedom and rights," said Ms. Taveras, 40, who immigrated from the Dominican Republic two years ago.
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