My friend Nancy is so great!

How great is she?

She’s so great, she can find out at noon that the hospital is closing its birth center, denying women a vital health care option, and by five o’clock she can have pregnant women marching in the street and all the news crews filming. I was there. I saw it happen. Actually, I was sent to the corner store for poster board and magic markers while Nancy and her partner Myron wrote press releases and activated a phone tree. Then I got to carry a sign while they explained the first amendment to the hospital police.

All this is old news. Nancy went on to found her own free standing birth center, but this is “why I love Nancy month” and among the many many reasons is reason #2: she can organize a rally at the drop of a hat.