Whoops

[neadods]

For about three minutes today, I inadvertently became an anti-choice protester, or at least acted like one. But knowing how many bomb threats have been made, when I passed the local clinic well before opening and saw a huge car idling in the parking lot, doesn't it make sense to write down the make, color, and license plate?

It wasn't until later (yes, I was keeping an eye on it as I ran my morning errands) that I saw a guy come out and check the clinic door and another person in the car and realized it was a set of really early clients. Mind you, Eeyore had already set up camp, so if the idea was to beat the protesters in, it didn't work. But by the time I left, it was only a few more minutes until the escort shift arrived.

Comments

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Meh. In a post-9/11 world, at a place that's a known target for homemeade nutjobs, you were just being alert and concerned. Just think how bad you'd feel if it *had* become a thing and you'd done nothing.

I mean, you didn't actually call the cops or anything, right?

I wouldn't call you anti-anything. I'd call you an alert citizen. Kind of like the guy who kept the Times Square bomb from going off.

[big-wired.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I could see, after all the violence that clinics have received, even in the time before 9/11, how you could be a bit cautious and maybe a little paranoid about that sort of thing.

At the very least, if something bad HAD happened, then you would have had information to give to the police.

[fyrdrakken]

I just ran across this article today on abusive partners sabotaging women's birth control and I'm still on the fence about including it in today's journal entry but it seems to dovetail with your occasional reproductive rights links roundups.