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Abortion enthusiasts? Listen up. This weekend will be the abortion weekend to end all other abortion weekend.
In this corner we have the anti-abortion's '5th Annual Walk for Life West Coast,' which targets in-a-delicate-way dames to save their unborn blessings. Really, these people are amusing as all hell. They bus in loads of anti-abortion women, men and children (25,000 of them!) who scream about Godat the foot of Market Street on Saturday, January 24, and then walk nearly 2 miles across the city, through Fisherman’s Wharf ending at Marina Green at the Golden Gate Bridge. Speakers include Diana Nagy ("singer"), Mother Agnes Mary (nun), Frank Lee (coordinator of Asian Americans Against Abortion who has a penis), Rev. Clenard Childress (Director of LEARN and penis carrier), and Karen Shablin (Feminists for Life).
Don't forget to hit the Walk for Life After Party at St. Dominic’s (2390 Bush) later that night. Rumor has it this afterparty is a huge cokefest.
And in the other corner, we have the pro-abortionists. The Bay Area Coalition on Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR), who will hold a 'Rally for Reproductive Rights,' a protest responding to the large contingency of anti-abortionists caterwauling against reproductive rights for women. This fete begins at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday at the Music Concourse at Market & Embarcadero Streets. They march around 11 a.m. Speakers include Gabriela Network, UA in the Bay, the Raging Grannies, World Can't Wait, Radical Women, and fame-hungry Cindy Sheehan.
BACORR's press release asks you to "show up with a sign & a lot of spunk." But that's what getting all you fine ladies into trouble in the first place! But seriously, folks, get out there and have fun. And don't forget the electric tape.
Photo by Jim Herd
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Confused: how does shirtless + electrical tape over the nips illustrate a devoutness for reproductive freedom?
Are there dress codes for protests now? themed costumes only?
re that picture; now that's some scary shit.
boobies and a democracynow! cap and a rainblow flag! oh my
I hope you will correct the first line of this post to "CHOICE enthusiast?" or "Reproductive rights enthusiast?"
No. And with all due respect, you should know better."CHOICE enthusiast?" That doesn't even mean anything. If you can't admit what it is, then you've lost the battle. Period.
Oh come on, Brock. Who is enthused that she is going to have, or has had, an abortion?
I very enthusiastically support a woman's freedom of choice. Reproductive rights means everything to a free democratic society. . . with all due respect.
I agree. "Abortion enthusiast" is extremely misleading and is just flat-out wrong. It's a term straight out of the anti-choice crowd's playbook. I expect better of you Brock, but since you're a guy, hey, I guess it really doesn't matter that much to you, does it?
i love white trash chicks
I love how her pants are all engrossed in dirt and she's smoking a cigarette, too.
Laughing makes me smile.
why does that guy in the front smoking a cig have black x's on his chest?
If pro-choice activism requires public semi-nudity and looking as dirty and unkempt as this female, count me out.
While reproductive rights are not one of my top priorities personally, I would like to see abortion stay legal.
So if you won't correct the first line of the post, perhaps you should revise the first line of the second paragraph to read:
"In this corner we have the misogyny enthusiast's . . ."
-just to balance the flippancy?
I've protested against the anti choice people for the last 5 years. It attracts all types and if this woman gives up her Saturday morning to take a stand, more power to her. What annoys me every year is why does SF grant these people a permit to walk from the Ferry Building into Fishermans Wharf and through to Marina Green on a Saturday morning. They block off most of the street and I've never seen any other group allowed to use that area of the city.
Re: the picture -- nothing says "class" like a group of raving, clip-faced, chop-haired, half-naked lesbians.
See y'all tomorrow, er... ladies.
Who said anything about class? They're just acting that way to get under your uptight misogynistic skin, asshole.
You're a dinosaur, and your kind is headed their way; that really grinds your gears, doesn't it?
Joel, at first I misread your comment "your kind is headed their way," to mean I was headed towards the aforementioned *lesbians* -- a profoundly disturbing thought that caused me to claw at my eye sockets like Oedipus. Then I realized you were referring to DINOSAURS, which was a much more comforting thought.
Sorry we missed one another today at the Walk for Life. Don't know if you were there; I was marching with the 30,000+ folks who crammed into Justin Herman Plaza, stretched in a line 10-across for almost two miles, and basically shut down the Embarcadero and Fisherman's Wharf before partying at Marina Greens.
Perhaps we'll meet up next year. There should be plenty of space available for you, if you don't mind mingling with lasses who think that "protest" means "no deodorant".
Well, I hear women couldn't vote in the country for the first 143 years or so, because the men who voted didn't like that idea. So it goes to show, majority rule don't mean it's right.