#abortion protesters

[mystlnewsonline]

New Post has been published on https://www.stl.news/abortion-protesters-throw-red-paint-at-polish-party-building/69551/

Abortion protesters throw red paint at Polish party building

WARSAW, Poland/January 18, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) — Polish police say balloons filled with red paint were thrown at the headquarters of the ruling conservative party during a protest calling for changing the country’s strict abortion laws.

Police spokesman Mariusz Mrozek said about 11 paint-filled balloons were thrown against the Law and Justice party building in central Warsaw late Wednesday as hundreds of people, mostly women, marched through the city urging a liberalization of abortion laws. Similar protests occurred in other cities.

Protesters are angry that parliament is considering tightening the country’s abortion law, which is already one of the most restrictive in Europe. The current Polish law bans all abortions except in exceptional cases.

By Associated Press, published on STL.NEWS by St. Louis Media, LLC (J.S)

[micdotcom]

Virtual reality experience recreates the horrors of trying to access an abortion clinic

Across the Line is a virtual reality film that puts viewers in the shoes of a woman walking before the moral firing squads that sit outside many abortion clinics in the U.S. The goal is to infuse abortion rhetoric with a degree of empathy, through a step-by-step, shockingly lifelike simulation.

[ryanedel]

Last November I had an abortion 20 weeks into my pregnancy, and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. Not because it scarred me (it didn’t), and not because I’m haunted by it (I’m not), but because of the lack of regard afforded me by the clinic that performed the procedure.... “I’m having a hard time seeing the baby. The amniotic fluid is extremely low. Your doctor will explain everything,” the technician replied. It turned out that our baby did not have kidneys or a bladder, a condition called Potter Syndrome. It’s not curable, and it’s fatal.

[shitantichoiceprotesterssay]

Why do you think anti-abortion protesters are so willing to push the limits on trespassing, harassment, or other activities that straddle freedom of speech and illegal activity? ____________________________ I think protesters push the line because they know a lot of things turn into "he said, she said." Police don't know who to believe because a lot of it isn't captured on tape, and if it is, the tape isn't great, so protesters know they can trespass and when police show up, they can just jump back over the line, and no one can prove it. They also sometimes rely on the fact that police aren't going to do anything because police feel like it's a battle they don't want to take sides on. So unless something really bad happens, they'll just let things slide. That's dangerous because — certainly not everyone — but a protester who knows the police are not going to enforce the little things may escalate and do things that are worse. I think also the protesters know that a lot of them have a strong cadre of pro-bono lawyers from across the country who will help them if they are sued or they are put in jail.

David S. Cohen, from the Robin Marty Cosmo article on his upcoming book. http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a39485/living-in-the-crosshairs-david-cohen/

I see this daily.  It is disgusting.

[shitantichoiceprotesterssay]

There is no possible reason for you to kill your baby today with all the help we are offering.  We have food, shelter, baby supplies.  There is no reason on earth to kill this baby today

Except, ya know, I don’t want to be pregnant anymore.

They always skip that one.  Wonder why?

[everythingishorosho]

Honestly I don't know what to say

"I just found out that not only is my best friend anti-abortion rights, but she went to a protest in Washington DC a few days ago. I don’t understand how this girl could believe that women should not have the right to terminate their own pregnancies. It’s easier for me to imagine other people, who have no access to decent information, or aren’t exposed to the harsh reality of what a world where women can’t control their own bodies really is like, or just haven’t spent enough time thinking about it, being ignorant, but I just can’t understand her. Honestly I can’t understand any of it.

I don’t understand why anyone would think it’s ok to dictate what a woman should do with her body or her life. I don’t get why people think it’s their choice to make, or that they somehow have a say in the matter. Sure, I don’t believe abortion is ok, in the sense that it would never be an option for me specifically. I can’t imagine ever being ok with going through with it, but who am I to say that another girl should be forced to carry her baby to term or keep a child she is not mentally, financially, or emotionally ready to have? How can anyone think even for a second that it’s ok to take away that choice from people?

If anti-choicers do end up succeeding, where would they draw the line? Do you force the woman with moderate medical instability, severe anxiety, and crappy health insurance to continue with an expensive, traumatizing pregnancy? Technically, this pregnancy would not kill her. Do you force the rape victim to carry the baby that was a product of incest? Do you force the 11-year old girl to carry a baby to term and wrack her underdeveloped body with the labors of child birth? How can you justify to yourself that you can force anyone to carry a growing fetus for almost a year? What about the ambitious high school student who was on birth control and used a condom, and the condom broke and she was part of the small percentage of pregnancies that make it past the pill, how can you carry on your shoulders the responsibility of shunning her, invalidating her, and making it incredibly difficult for her to now graduate high school, get a higher education, get a job, make a career? 

Of course, they shouldn’t have been such sluts to get in that situation in the first place, right? Let’s just all never have sex.

If we keep criminalizing female sexuality we are upholding harmful double standards that cause huge problems for all women, and further the distance we have to run to get to equality. There has been so much positive progress but at the end of the day there are still hundreds of thousands of women who are protesting and marching in order to try and take away their own rights and the rights of all women.

It is my body.

It is her body.

You can’t tell us what to do with it.

I will never apologize for embracing my sexuality or my health. I am human, I have a body, and I have every right to have sex, and if I needed to, terminate a pregnancy. Nothing you say will change that.”

[shitantichoiceprotesterssay]

I've got blood clots in my lungs that have to be removed, and they can't do the procedure if I'm pregnant. These people just don't understand

Client to me as we walked to the clinic.

As an escort, I am there to listen to you and walk without and give you space to make your decision and your journey with abortion or whatever decision you want to make.

You, as the client, don't have to justify or excuse anything to anyone.  Even me, the escort. 

I will listen to anything you want to tell me, but as far as I'm concerned, ANY decision you want to make will be a good one.

[shitantichoiceprotesterssay]

So an anti-choice protester called me a "buffalo" today.

Granted it was in the teens this morning temperature wise, so I was in a shit tons of layers to escort.  I suppose he thought I looked fat so he made that comment.

I guess that was part of the whole "sidewalk counseling" thing to call me a buffalo.

I guess that was part of the whole "Catholics saving babies" thing to call me that name.