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M aternal I nstincts
Tess Fields fights for abortion rights knowing that her mother
is on the other end of the battlefield by Kathy Beige
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s Tess Fields
is lighting
for abor­
tion rights,
her mother
is doing everything she
can to stop her. Fields, a
lesbian pregnant with her
first child, is field director
for the Oregon affiliate of
the National Abortion
and Reproductive Rights
Action League. Her moth­
er is the chairwoman of
the Georgia Christian
Coalition.
Growing up in a fun­
damentalist Christian
environm ent solidified
Fields’ commitment to
pro-choice causes. As a
young adult, she was sub­
jected to nightly prayer
meetings and watching
her twin brother get pref­
erential treatm ent be­
cause he was a boy. Fields
would sneak out of the
house to attend pro-
choice rallies and read
Gloria Steinem books in
her closet.
“A woman’s right to
chcx>se has always been a
real push-button issue for As field director for Oregon NARAL, Tess Fields is busy preparing
me, since I was a teen­ to oppose an anti-choice ballot measure next year
ager,” she says. “1 think I
Fields has worked in her current job for the
was a feminist from early on, and I equated a
woman’s right to control her own Kxly with a past nine months hut has been active in the pro-
choice movement for years. I'Hirmg the 2000
woman’s right to control her destiny.”
Fields ran away from home and ended up U.S. Senate race she spent time in St. Louis
spending a year and a half in a group home. organizing to defeat John Ashcroft. Little did
Although it wasn’t all positive, she said it was she know that he six in would be appointed as
gixxl to get away from her mother during those attorney general.
She sees the issues of abortion rights and
formative years.
When Fields came out as a lesbian at age 24, queer rights as closely connected. “In my opin­
her mother did not talk to her for five years. ion, it’s the same battle," she says. “It’s about
She and her girlfriend at the time moved from controlling sexuality. It’s about trying to
Georgia to Portland because they heard it hail impose one’s moral and religious views on
another person.”
the highest per capita lesbian population.
Fields and the Oregon pro-choice movement
“We had no clue about Portland,” she says.
“We pulled over and asked some guy walking are fighting an anti-choice ballot measure that
will appear on the ballot in 2004. It would
his dog where the lesbians lived.”
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