Video: "Walk for Life" Meets Pro-Choice SF

Don't just march and go home, pro-choice sisters! Start a political organization that will be the political arm of the womyn's anti-patriarchal party. STOP BEGGING for what are your natural rights to choose and control your bodies! All lilberation movements evolved and created their political arm to seize power. It's our turn now! We got the vote that way and now we will dismantle the patriarchy, the male armies, the weapons' industry and we will convert these for the good of womyn, children, the elderly,(and the men!) and the PLANET. We have the economic consumer power, we have male comrades, we have the love and the courage!
The right wing never stop organizing. Why are we so spread out and isolated in our struggles. We can be in both: the people struggles with our male friends and on our own.
ORGANIZE A POLITICAL PROGRESSIVE WOMYN'S PARTY before it's too late.

I was wondering if anyone had any more (or better) video/photo footage of the "Do You Remember When?" hanger sign. If you do, would you mind posting some of it?

Thanks

CONFESSION OF AN EX-ABORTIONIST
By Dr. Bernard Nathanson

I am personally responsible for 75,000 abortions. This legitimises my credentials
to speak to you with some authority on the issue. I was one of the founders of the
National Association for the Repeal of the Abortion Laws (NARAL) in the U.S. in 1968.
A truthful poll of opinion then would have found that most Americans were against
permissive abortion. Yet within five years we had convinced the U.S. Supreme Court
to issue the decision which legalised abortion throughout America in 1973 and produced
virtual abortion on demand up to birth. How did we do this? It is important to understand
the tactics involved because these tactics have been used throughout the western world
with one permutation or another, in order to change abortion law.

THE FIRST KEY TACTIC WAS TO CAPTURE THE MEDIA
We persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a liberal enlightened,
sophisticated one. Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated,
we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls. We announced to the media that we
had taken polls and that 60% of Americans were in favour of permissive abortion. This is
the tactic of the self-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority. We aroused
enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of
illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000 but
the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1,000,000. Repeating the big lie often
enough convinces the public. The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around
200-250 annually. The figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000. These false
figures took root in the consciousness of Americans convincing many that we needed to
crack the abortion law. Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that
legalising abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place illegally would then
be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of
birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1500% since
legalisation.

THE SECOND KEY TACTIC WAS TO PLAY THE CATHOLIC CARD
We systematically vilified the Catholic Church and its "socially backward ideas" and
picked on the Catholic hierarchy as the villain in opposing abortion. This theme was
played endlessly. We fed the media such lies as "we all know that opposition to abortion
comes from the hierarchy and not from most Catholics" and "Polls prove time and again
that most Catholics want abortion law reform". And the media drum-fired all this into the
American people, persuading them that anyone opposing permissive abortion must be under
the influence of the Catholic hierarchy and that Catholics in favour of abortion are
enlightened and forward-looking. An inference of this tactic was that there were no non-
Catholic groups opposing abortion. The fact that other Christian as well as non-Christian
religions were {and still are) monolithically opposed to abortion was constantly
suppressed, along with pro-life atheists' opinions.

THE THIRD KEY TACTIC WAS THE DENIGRATION AND SUPPRESSION OF ALL
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THAT LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION
I am often asked what made me change my mind. How did I change from prominent abortionist
to pro-life advocate? In 1973, I became director of obstetrics of a large hospital in New
York City and had to set up a prenatal research unit, just at the start of a great new
technology which we now use every day to study the foetus in the womb. A favourite pro-
abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that
the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific
one. Foetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires
all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy. Why, you may well ask, do some
American doctors who are privy to the findings of foetology, discredit themselves by
carrying out abortions? Simple arithmetic at $300 a time, 1.55 million abortions means an
industry generating $500,000,000 annually, of which most goes into the pocket of the
physician doing the abortion. It is clear that permissive abortion is purposeful
destruction of what is undeniably human life. It is an impermissible act of deadly
violence. One must concede that unplanned pregnancy is a wrenchingly difficult dilemma,
but to look for its solution in a deliberate act of destruction is to trash the vast
resourcefulness of human ingenuity, and to surrender the public weal to the classic
utilitarian answer to social problems.

AS A SCIENTIST I KNOW, NOT BELIEVE, KNOW THAT HUMAN LIFE BEGINS AT
CONCEPTION
Although I am not a formal religionist, I believe with all my heart that there is a
divinity of existence which commands us to declare a final and irreversible halt to this
infinitely sad and shameful crime against humanity.

When will they learn that their preachy "I know best" attitude is what ultimately defeats them. For the other view point go to:
http://www.albany.edu/history/FromTheBackAlleys.html

Anybody who cares about anything is Crazy.

Anti Abortion, Pro-Life, Vegetarian, Right wing, Left wing your all

crazy.

I personally dont care about anything or anyone besides # 1 here.

So, let me get this straight...he lied to the media, he played fast and loose with facts and figures, he apparently sold his principles down the river...he acted against the dictates of his soul and reason...and because of this, I'm supposed to sit down and listen and learn and recant? Sorry. Nope. I wouldn't listen to him, or be able to believe that they were acting from an authentic, self-disinterested position. He is a man frantically looking for a position, and because of some great moral weakness, not able to really fashion one.
His latest assumption of identity, "the all father"- coming before us, proclaiming his ultimate knowledge- is a trope, not a harbinger of truth (also an indication of a hugely inflated ego), and certainly not the "end-game" anti-choice activists want him to be.
I wouldn't need him to explain, or to tutor me in the disasterously irrational attitudes the Catholic church has against the human body in general. I have been the recipiant of those positions/tactics.
And anyone who really thinks that the complex and ever evolving process of "personhood" is nothing more than a simple biological endowment and is divinely endowed is basing that position on faith (and, in the process, fatally underestimating that process).
This is the quote that gets me...
"AS A SCIENTIST I KNOW, NOT BELIEVE, KNOW THAT HUMAN LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION"
As a scientist, the first thing one KNOWS (gotta love the thundering attempt at omniscience) is that one does not know. There is only endless inquiry. And uncertainly. Which is precisely what makes Fundumentalists squirm and scream the way they do.

Hmm, anyone else notice that this guy didn't provide a name or a single citation of any evidence whatsoever through his entire rant? Reminds me of the guy with the "Breast Cancer Abortion Link" sign at the march who, when asked to cite a single accredited article replied, "We're all entitled to our opinion." Just another crackpot misusing the name of science.

The Doctor claims HE KNOWS about conception and WHEN LIFE BEGINS. Life in fact is everywhere, we've destroyed 100,000 lives in the occupation of Iraq. If he ever had a period he would know that women live with the constant acknologment in their lives and body of the experience of life and the continous presence of that fact. His argument holds no weight. It's based in CONTROL, his desire to dictate the control of life and the decisions that revolve around it. Women and the experience of what it is to carry life and the decsions around who they are and what their circumstances are play no part is his world. he simply sees what he cares to see, to determine what he "scientifically" wants to intrinsically control. All of medical science (do the research) evolved over the attempt during the inquisition to destroy mid wifery and the women who practiced it, it was an attempt for male science to basically control what they had no control over, the process of life itself. It's the basis of all religion and at the core of all medical science the control over birth and the desire to abade death. It is MAN facing ultimately his own lack of power over these very real and personal experiences and at the end of the day its really about Male desire to control the female body. It's as old as religion and the basis of it all. Adam's great inferiority complex that God gave the ability to create life to his "weaker" partner. PLEASE! Spare us all the dillusion of your own weak ego and flaccid need for control.