#protectthezone

[stophatingwomensociety-blog]

Repost from @vindaloo.kent This is why #protectthezone #clinicescort #keepabortionlegal"

[womenvotepa]

After federal courts repeatedly upheld Pittsburgh’s 15-foot clinic buffer zone ordinance, opponents of legal abortion are still fighting to knock it down. The fight in Pittsburgh is an important one, with implications for the safety of patients and providers across the country.

“This ruling is a great victory for the City of Pittsburgh and will help protect both the patients in need of medical care and the doctors and medical staff at Planned Parenthood,” said Sue Frietsche, senior staff attorney at the Women’s Law Project’s Western Pennsylvania office in Pittsburgh, which represented Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania and its volunteer escorts in the suit.

Then the plaintiffs appealed the case.

In response, yesterday, Women’s Law Project attorneys and Thomas E. Zemaitis, a partner at the private law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on behalf of Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh Pro-Choice Escorts.

[wwkent]

Faces of the Fight is now published! The first of hopefully, many, exposés on the anti abortion protesters who harass patients and workers at abortion providing clinics across the country. Please help spread the word about this project so I can cover more clinics. Thank you! http://wendikentphotography.com/?page_id=619 #facesofthefight #clinicstories #abortion #protectthezone #prochoice

[wwkent]

Another outtake from@#facesofthefight Launching tomorrow! The first of many in-depth coverages into the behaviors of anti abortion protesters outside clinics across the country. #prochoice #protectthezone stay tuned and "like" Wendi Kent Photography on Facebook to get the latest.

[stoppatriarchy]

Don't Let Them Force You Into Motherhood Against Your Will

From a woman living in Texas since 1979

In 1968 at 22 years old I realized I was pregnant. I tried to find what we used to call underground abortion providers. The amount of money that was being charged for a procedure that left a couple of my friends dead was more money than I could have come up with under the best of circumstances.

So I carried the fetus to term and had a daughter. Her and me were both homeless on the streets of New York since I had no support system of family.

At a certain point when we had hitch hiked to Philly for what I thought was going to be a job opportunity it was down hill from there. When she was 3 years old and we were still out on the streets I realized I am not giving her even the basic requirements of life, roof over her head, food on a daily basis I ended up giving her up for adoption.

DON’T let them tell you adoption is a viable alternative to abortion. DON’T let them forced you into mother hood against your will. Don’t spend the rest of your life wondering how is she/or he doing. Don’t put a child in a situation that they wonder why you didn’t want them.

We can’t go back! We won’t go back! Join the Texas Abortion Rights Freedom Ride. Be a part of the fight to stop the attacks on women. Contribute in big and small ways.

Abortion on demand and Without Apology!

Forced motherhood = female enslavement

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/abortion-rights-freedom-ride-2014-ground-zero-texas

[twodotsknowwhy]

Anti-Choicers, TRAP and the Buffer

(AKA: Your Cards Are Showing)

By now, just about everything about the importance of the buffer zone that can be said, has been said. We need that zone to protect patients, clinic workers and escorts. I'm not going to rehash that. And if there is one thing this ruling has shown, it is that anti-choicers don't care about the health and safety of anyone who has actually been born.

I'd like to think that we already knew that, but sadly, anti-choicers have a great charade going in which they pretend that they care about women. They talk about how they are looking out for our safety while passing laws that restrict our freedom. I am talking, of course, about what the pro-choice movement has dubbed Targeted Restrictions of Abortion Providers, or TRAP laws. These laws are pushed by conservatives under the guise of worrying about our care. They make demands upon abortion providers that are wholly unnecessary, knowing that it will force many clinics to close and then claiming that it's just a happy coincidence. And if pro-choicers point out that grass growing near a clinic in South Carolina or 43 inch wide doorways in Missouri have nothing to do with protecting patients, well, anti-choicers just use that as fodder for their abortion mill myths.

But then we have buffer zone laws and suddenly all the manufactured care for patients is thrown out the window. Never mind that almost all abortion providers report that their patients have felt that their safety was threatened by anti-choice protesters (a claim that cannot be made about five and a half foot wide hallways). In this case, when patients safety is actually at risk, suddenly, the anti-choice movement doesn't care. Or should I say, doesn't bother to pretend to care. Suddenly, safety is no longer a concern. Sure, block the entrance of a medical facility. No biggie. So long as they get their "message" across, safety clearly isn't much of a concern.

[eheft]

My boyfriend had a brilliant plan. Open an abortion clinic in the Supreme Court buffer zone! We get a legal buffer zone to protect people accessing healthcare and the Supreme Court has a taste of their own buffer zoneless medicine! Making them listen to nasty pro life fuck bags is just an added bonus.

[thomdunn]

#ProtectTheZone

If you care at all about human rights — and in particular the rights of women and their respective partners and their freedoms of individual choice and access to healthcare — please take a minute to sign this petition to re-instate the "Buffer Zone"