Women’s Equality Day

8/14/2009 3:24:16 PM

Legislator Gordon A. Burrows was proud to sponsor the annual Women’s Equality Day Reformed Committee’s program August 7 in the meeting room of the Board of Legislators. The committee gathers to commemorate the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting voting freedom to women, and honor pro-life women of outstanding civic and personal achievement. The 2009 honoree was Theresa Bonopartis, director of Lumina Hope and Healing After Abortion. Guest speaker was acitivist and teacher Brigid Faranda.