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Photos and Speeches from Pro-Choice Rally, Brisbane, October 9 2010

  The rally was organised by the Pro-Choice Action Collective (PCAC) to protest the upcoming trial of Tegan Simone Leach in Cairns. Ms Leach is charged with aborting her pregnancy, under Section 225 of the Queensland Criminal Code.

Press “play” on the audio players under each photo to hear what that speaker said.

Click here to see a set of 30 photos from the rally.

Panorama, Pro Choice Rally, Queens Park, George and Elizabeth Sts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 101009-1

Panorama of the audience. Click on this photo (and all the other photos) to see larger versions at Flickr.

 

Susan Shaw of the Pro-Choice Action Collective speaks at the Pro Choice Rally, Queens Park, George and Elizabeth Sts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 101009

101009 Pro Choice Rally - Susan Shaw of PCAC

 

Helen Speaks at the Pro Choice Rally, Queens Park, George and Elizabeth Sts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 101009

101009 Pro Choice Rally - Helen of PCAC reads message from Margaret Kirkby of Womens Abortion Action Campaign

 

Anti-abortion counter protesters get counter-counter-protested, Pro Choice Rally, Queens Park, George and Elizabeth Sts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 101009

Anti-abortion protesters are countered.

 

Kate Calcutt of Children by Choice speaks at Pro Choice Rally, Queens Park, George and Elizabeth Sts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 101009-1

101009 Pro Choice Rally - Kate Calcutt of Children By Choice

 

Sarah from the Pro Choice Action Collective speaks at the Pro Choice Rally, Queens Park, George and Elizabeth Sts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 101009

101009 Pro Choice Rally - Sarah of PCAC reads message from Debbie Brenner of Radical Women in Melbourne

 

Mararet Lee of the National Tertiary Education Union speaks at the Pro Choice Rally, Queens Park, George and Elizabeth Sts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 101009

101009 Pro Choice Rally - Margaret Lee, Secretary, Queensland Division of the National Tertiary Education Union, speaks at Brisbane Pro-Choice rally 101009

 

Kathy Newnham of the Pro-Choice Action Collective - Pro Choice Rally, Queens Park, George and Elizabeth Sts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 101009

101009 Pro Choice Rally - Kathy Newnham of Pro-Choice Action Collective

 

Ellen of the Pro-Choice Action Collective speaks at the Pro Choice Rally, Queens Park, George and Elizabeth Sts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 101009 101009 Pro Choice Rally - Ellen from PCAC reads out message from pro-choice activists in Perth

 

Priya of the Pro-Choice Action Collective speaks at the Pro Choice Rally, Queens Park, George and Elizabeth Sts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 101009

101009 Pro Choice Rally - Priya from PCAC reads a message from Tanya Roberts of the Womens Global Network for Reproductive Rights

 

Greens' Senator-Elect for Queensland, Larissa Waters, at Pro Choice Rally, Queens Park, George and Elizabeth Sts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 101009-4

101009 Pro Choice Rally - Queensland Greens Senator-Elect Larissa Waters

 

 

Giant Coathanger Pro Choice Rally, Queens Park, George and Elizabeth Sts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 101009-1

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