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Yes to March of Women (CANADA).


Charlottetown Charlottetown, city (1991 pop. 15,396), capital and chief port of Prince Edward Island, E Canada, on the southern coast. Food processing, tourism, fishing, and farming are the main industries. The French established (c. , PEI--The annual convention of the CWL CWL Catholic Women's League
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 held in Charlottetown in August, 2000, overwhelmingly approved the League's support for the March of Women. Most of the 1,000 members were uninformed about the issue and consequently saw the controversy as an attack upon the integrity of the League and themselves.

The CWL executive focused on justifying their original decision rather than supplying the members with information about the "pros" and "cons they reduced it to a case of being for or against abortion.

Said outgoing president An outgoing president is a president or, generally, other head of state or government when he holds office between the election of his successor and the inauguration by which that successor assumes power.  Sheilah Pellerin on August, 14, "The March is not about abortion or lesbianism lesbianism: see homosexuality.
lesbianism
 also called sapphism or female homosexuality,

the quality or state of intense emotional and usually erotic attraction of a woman to another woman.
 but about poverty or violence against women".

For the March of Women interpretation of poverty and violence, see the Editor's "March of Women, Part III, in C.I., September, 2000, pp 12-13.
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Date:Oct 1, 2000
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