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Dr. Carhart
Dec. 6th, 2010 09:00 pmDr. Carhart, colleague of Dr. Tillman, started performing late-term abortions in Maryland today. Although he had been keeping quiet about the clinic location, he had rapidly been "outed" and the news is citing up to 200 protesters being kept back by police, and talk from the protesters about trying to protest all of the businesses in the office park to get their owner's help running him out of town.
TBD has what I think is an even-handed article, interviewing protesters and counter-protesters. Needless to say, there are graphic pictures at the link.
WACDTF (the group I volunteer for) gets a mention, along with what sounds like a standard Saturday morning dialog in the parking lot: The elevated police presence meant that volunteers from the Washington Area Clinic Defense Task Force didn't need to escort patients inside. Instead, they stood outside the protest in neon "ESCORT" vests. Anti-abortion activists sometimes turned to them to air grievances.
“Ask her when she thinks life begins!” one protester yells at me as I approached WACDTF volunteer Kunni Biener.
“You promised you wouldn’t follow us around," Biener says.
"Ask her when she thinks life begins!"
“I have kids. I remember exactly when life begins," says Biener.
I couldn't be there today, and it sounds like Carhart's never going to need amateur protection. However, although WACDTF frowns on back-to-back shifts, I am planning on asking a waiver so that I can take Roe v Wade day off to go downtown and protect the clinic where I used to get basic gyno care as well as take a shift at my local that Saturday.
TBD has what I think is an even-handed article, interviewing protesters and counter-protesters. Needless to say, there are graphic pictures at the link.
WACDTF (the group I volunteer for) gets a mention, along with what sounds like a standard Saturday morning dialog in the parking lot: The elevated police presence meant that volunteers from the Washington Area Clinic Defense Task Force didn't need to escort patients inside. Instead, they stood outside the protest in neon "ESCORT" vests. Anti-abortion activists sometimes turned to them to air grievances.
“Ask her when she thinks life begins!” one protester yells at me as I approached WACDTF volunteer Kunni Biener.
“You promised you wouldn’t follow us around," Biener says.
"Ask her when she thinks life begins!"
“I have kids. I remember exactly when life begins," says Biener.
I couldn't be there today, and it sounds like Carhart's never going to need amateur protection. However, although WACDTF frowns on back-to-back shifts, I am planning on asking a waiver so that I can take Roe v Wade day off to go downtown and protect the clinic where I used to get basic gyno care as well as take a shift at my local that Saturday.
