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Photos: Operation Rescue and Pro-Choice Activists Outside of Moscone Center Today
Photos and report from protest and show of support outside of ACOG conference
I received a call from one of the people from the RCP and Refuse and Resist who were out at the Moscone Center this afternoon. I went out to take some photos. R+R's sources had said that OR had been out there since 6am. That explains why, when I got there, I saw that most of the Operation Rescue people were sitting on the curb! As I walked around the area, I saw several families with young kids and signs snacking and shopping.
Joey Johnson struck up a conversation with the guy who was holding the "Execute All Murdering Abortionists" sign. It turns out that this guy is against violence and capital punishment! I asked the guy what the bible verse that is cited on the sign is. He said that he didn't know! I asked him why he would hold a sign if he didn't even know what it was about. His answer was not very satisfactory. Apparently he was from somewhere in the sierras. Can you imagine driving 4 or 5 hours to hold up a sign that you didn't understand or even believe in?!
R+R's sources said that the conference starts at 9am on Monday, and that Monday will be the main day for which Operation Rescue is moblizing its forces. They could arrive as early as 6, or, obviously, as late as 9am. I think that it would be a good idea for pro-choice people to come out as much as possible in the next few days to support the Obstetricians and Gynecologists who are performing important services to women- in addition to helping women to make and carry out decisions about their bodies and reproduction, they are also the people who give regular checkups and support women from the pregnancy test to the delivery room! If people come out on Monday morning, they can counter OR's message and show that San Francisco does, as the sign in the photo suggests, welcome ACOG!
More about OR and ACOG: http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/1736301.php
Joey Johnson struck up a conversation with the guy who was holding the "Execute All Murdering Abortionists" sign. It turns out that this guy is against violence and capital punishment! I asked the guy what the bible verse that is cited on the sign is. He said that he didn't know! I asked him why he would hold a sign if he didn't even know what it was about. His answer was not very satisfactory. Apparently he was from somewhere in the sierras. Can you imagine driving 4 or 5 hours to hold up a sign that you didn't understand or even believe in?!
R+R's sources said that the conference starts at 9am on Monday, and that Monday will be the main day for which Operation Rescue is moblizing its forces. They could arrive as early as 6, or, obviously, as late as 9am. I think that it would be a good idea for pro-choice people to come out as much as possible in the next few days to support the Obstetricians and Gynecologists who are performing important services to women- in addition to helping women to make and carry out decisions about their bodies and reproduction, they are also the people who give regular checkups and support women from the pregnancy test to the delivery room! If people come out on Monday morning, they can counter OR's message and show that San Francisco does, as the sign in the photo suggests, welcome ACOG!
More about OR and ACOG: http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/1736301.php
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http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/173652...
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I don't support or detract circumcision. it is a fact that the anti-circumcision peopel called their protest about 2 weeks ago. They called this protest ebcasue that the doctors at the conference have some relationship to
circumcision. Now i don't know who came out to this protest, but both men
+ women are agaisnt circumcison.
circumcision. Now i don't know who came out to this protest, but both men
+ women are agaisnt circumcison.
Gen 9:5-6 seems to advocate vegetarianism. I wonder if the guy holding the sign is a vegetarian?
The down side of sneaking into town (like O.R.) and having no one know about your protest is that no one shows up. And as some of us know, if the press doesn't cover it, well it just didn't happen did it? Conflict brings corporate media.
I was down there at lunch time. Same tired old pictures, and a blaring loud speaker. Do they really think that people in this city are going to pay them any more attention than to snicker at them? Busloads my ass. I'll check them out tomorrow, but frankly I was not impressed by their display.
This doesn't mean that we shouldn't monitor the anti-choicers for advance notice of their silly plans.
I was down there at lunch time. Same tired old pictures, and a blaring loud speaker. Do they really think that people in this city are going to pay them any more attention than to snicker at them? Busloads my ass. I'll check them out tomorrow, but frankly I was not impressed by their display.
This doesn't mean that we shouldn't monitor the anti-choicers for advance notice of their silly plans.
get a life.
aren't there some wars out there you could be protesting?
aren't there some wars out there you could be protesting?
...where you can discuss that. have you ever been to an anti-war protest yourself?
I assume you're anti-choice too. It seems you know what's best for others, just like O.R.
I assume you're anti-choice too. It seems you know what's best for others, just like O.R.
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