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 Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:51 pm
I saw a startling first today. While I was driving down the highway, I saw a family with 2 little kids (the youngest looked about 2) holding signs with fake abortion pictures that proclaimed "Abortion is murder!" I almost crashed into the person in front of me when I saw them. The first thing I though of was child endangerment, because it was 90 degrees out. Luckily my boyfriend had a cell phone (he was in the car with me at the time), and he called the cops on them. I mean, why the hell are they pushing their biased views onto poor little children that don't even understand where babies come from? Luckily here, you can get arrested if you are doing anything deemed dangerous (panhandling, protesting near a main highway, etc...) with a child.
Me being the curious type, would like to know if anyone else has had to deal with protesters or seen any.
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:58 pm
¨*:·.♥.·:*¨Luckily, there's never been in any in my area...not that I've seen. They're either smart enough to know that pissing people off here will get you shot, or they stick to clinic parking lots where the people they're bullying are likely emotional and unarmed. XP
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:13 am
You kidding? rolleyes I'm in Mississippi. I know to avoid the courthouse square on the first Saturday of every month.
I can't believe they're even bothering in a state that only has one abortion provider. It's three hours away from here. Sheesh.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:02 am
Never seen them. Even if I am in a pretty conservative area.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:19 am
Every year in College Park (where I used to go to college) there was the abortion-is-the-holocaust-display. It was a circular thing with pictures of stillbirths juxtaposed with holocaust victims with cute little sayings like "your child has a beating heart after 10 days!" and other things.
They would also hand out a pamphlet that attempted to argue that fetuses were a class of discriminated persons and attempted to equate pro-chocier's devaluing of the fetus's personhood as equivalent to the way nazis devalued the personhood of Jews, Catholics, Gypsies, etc.
On another part of campus (the mall) during the very same day they'd do the blue and pink flag thing where every flag represented something like 10 or 100 abortions. I would look at that every year and be proud that that many women knew what they wanted in their lives and went for it (and would often tell the protesters the same thing).
Most people on that very liberal campus ignored them.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:34 am
In Washington state when I lived there I saw an abortion protest.. Me and a friend were taking my other friend to the clinic (her now ex-boyfriend and the father of the fetus left her and wanted nothing to do with her) and people were waving signs. They didn't know which one of us was going to get the abortion so they started yelling at all of us.
One yelled at us, "I HOPE YOU DIE MURDERERS!"
So someone in the clinic called the cops because people were issuing death threats and the cops made them leave and also protected the clinic and surrounding area so that no one could linger and harass us or follow us, etc.
That being said, in Connecticut I never experienced it.. but, they're smart when it comes to Planned Parenthood. It operates out of local hospitals and I believe it's illegal to protest right outside of a hospital because it blocks ambulances/is dangerous for people needing to get inside.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:48 am
WTF??? IN OREGON??? HERE?!?!
What highway? Outside of what town? In my town (Outside of Salem) there is an "Abortion No" van but there are no graphic images, thank god.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:34 pm
AngieAki WTF??? IN OREGON??? HERE?!?!
What highway? Outside of what town? In my town (Outside of Salem) there is an "Abortion No" van but there are no graphic images, thank god. It was near clackamas on the highway to portland (the number escapes me at the moment).
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:31 pm
Ugh. When I was attending school at Ohio University during my sophomore year, I walked passed a pro-life rally on my way from class. It was pretty typical. Stillbirth images, and all of types of fake propaganda. It was all I could do to not start screaming at them for being assholes, but I took the high road. I was still borderline pro-life/pro-choice then. Those images are what actually helped me become pro-choice, because I don't like being lied to.
It's sad that such a liberal state like Oregon is being inflicted with this illness too. Oregon to me is the ideal state when it comes to legislation. The physician assisted suicide protocol there really makes me happy. Not that I think everyone should end his/her own life, but to be able to die humanely rather than at the whim of cancer or some other painful and terrible sickness, really appeals to me. Oregon seems to respect their people better than any other state in my opinion.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:36 pm
Heh, I live down the street from an abortion clinic. (Probably one of very few in Nebraska, I ought to check.) Every Sunday, the Catholic lifers are out there waving bloody signs, screaming, and getting the young girls to actually KNOCK ON THE DOOR and say, "Please Mommy, don't kill your baby."
And it's across the street from Saint Mary's Catholic School. Sick.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:52 pm
Luckily around here church junkies go out to eat after worship rather than to the clinics. Hooray for lazy Christians! xp
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:40 pm
People are always protesting outside the local abortion provider's clinic. With huge signs with dead babies and everything. They aren't well received, though. That's what happens in a town with three out of every five lawns sporting "Impeach Bush!" signs.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:03 pm
They're probably from Eastern Oregon or something.
Oregon may be a bastion of liberalness, but that's due to the fact that about 51% of the population is SOLIDLY liberal. About 2% is in the middle, and about 47% is SOLIDLY conservative. Probably just some of those solidly conservative people. How else do you think Kevin Mannix won the primaries? The conservative people in Oregon tend to the VERY conservative.
And the abortion=holocaust people came to my college, ONCE, at the invitation of the College Republicans (UO)... it nearly split the College Republicans, and the president of the group had to resign, it got THAT much protest.
Oh, and we had one of those crazy wandering preachers visit, he comes every year, but he rails about everything, and no one listens except to mock him.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:23 pm
water_elemental AngieAki WTF??? IN OREGON??? HERE?!?!
What highway? Outside of what town? In my town (Outside of Salem) there is an "Abortion No" van but there are no graphic images, thank god. It was near clackamas on the highway to portland (the number escapes me at the moment). I can't remember the number either but I know what you are talking about.
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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:01 pm
I live in Pittsburgh. We're the reason Pennsylvania is a democratic state. whee
The Planned Parenthood downtown rarely has protesters because of the sign posted in their front window, which is for an "Adopt-a-Protester" fund; I can't remember exactly what it is, but it's something like for every person that protests out front of their building, they'll donate so much money to various pro-choice groups.
I'm going for my regular checkup on Wednesday (and to get pills; yay for a free 6-month supply heart ); I'll check it out and tell you what it says. 3nodding
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