Abortion-rights supporters marched in huge numbers Sunday, roused in this election year by what they see as an erosion of reproductive freedoms under U.S. President George W. Bush and foreign policies they say hurt women worldwide.

Political agitation suffused the gathering of hundreds of thousands. Their target: Mr. Bush, like-minded officials in federal and state government and religious conservatives.

Speaking beyond the masses to policy-makers, Francis Kissling of Catholics for a Free Choice declared, “You will hear our pro-choice voices ringing in your ears until such time that you permit all women to make our own reproductive choices.”

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