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neadodsI've been thanked, called a slut, condemned in the name of Jesus, forgiven by God, high-fived, and yelled at in joy and fury.
Quite a day.
Real Sex Ed Saves Lives
My usual rotation at the DC Shakes is the Sunday matinee. DC is dead on Sunday; the metro echoingly empty. Today, at 9am, the trains coming out of Greenbelt, the first stop on the Green line leading from a far-flung suburb, were standing room only. There was one car with "Choose Life" bumperstickers in the parking lot, but - well, read on:
Roe, Roe, Roe Your Choice
I flashed back rather nastily to when I took metro to work, and had be quiet and nice every year when the Anti-Roe protestors were filling up the trains. Only this time, the t-shirts and signs said "This is what a feminist looks like" "Million Muff March" "Stand up for women's rights" One T-shirt had three lines written in Hebrew, with the last one crossed out and something written beneath. The back of the T-shirts read "Talk wisely, (something),Walk softly MARCH PROUDLY!
Whose Choice - Yours or Theirs?
There was a mass exodus at Archives, with NARAL people handing out signs and maps at the top of the elevators. I got there early; early enough to walk up and down the mall, buying buttons and looking at everything. There were a few booths set up; a diaper changing station, a couple first aid stands, lemonade, pins. In the middle of the mall a handful of people stood holding signs that just had numbers, where the states and some of the other major groups were to gather. Nobody was where Maryland was supposed to gather, so I kept wandering until I found the Freethinkers. I sat with them for a while, but curiousity soon put me back on my feet to explore, and I was glad I did; I saw a lot more than I would have if I stayed where I was supposed to.
My Body is Not Public Property
I wasn't the only wanderer. There were people in green sashes, making the official NOW crowd count. There were eager volunteers, many of them teens just barely legal to vote themselves, registering people to vote. And there were petitions everywhere. I followed the sound of the Angry Grannies singing their version of the Battle Hymn of the Republic ("Getting pro-choice for our daughters was a terrible hard fight, and today we're marching on!") and ended up at a table with a petition against the Gag rule, which I signed.
I'm Pro Choice and I Pray
Up by the Capitol, there was a stage where assorted pro-choice religious groups were having hymn sings (including several rabbis). It was also the first sign of the opposition aside from the 10 Commandment van driving up and down the street with "March for Death" written on the sides; there were a couple bloody dismembered fetus posters. I stood between them and the stage for a while. Originally I had a sign (Real Sex Ed Saves Lives; of all the slogans, that was my favorite), but someone came up and asked me where I got it, explaining that he taught sex ed in his school and really wanted it. Since I'd just picked it off a pile and he was wearing a march shirt, I told him, "you need it more than I do" and gave mine to him.
Our bodies, our voices, our lives, our choices
The speeches were beginning when I wandered back to the Freethinkers. Despite the many large screens and speaker towers, it was occasionally hard to hear & see what was going on, particularly when the towers were overlapping. I got a snack, ate it, and started wandering again. This time I headed to the Washington Monument, where the main stage was.
Medical Students for Choice - Your Future Abortion Providers
Up by the main stage were the major booths. NOW, Ms, Radical Feminists, NARAL were all selling things, mostly t-shirts and buttons. Although the official march color appeared to be hot pink, I picked up a purple NOW march shirt and matching ballcap to keep the threatened rain off my glasses. (Other souveniers of the day included a "Gay Rights Are Civil Rights" button and a beautiful handpainted pin commemorating the march.) And under a set of signs demanding emergency over-the-counter emergency contraception, several NYC MDs were handing out perscriptions for Plan B. One wasn't even taking names, just scribbling a signature and handing out slips as fast as she could sign. Each had 12 refills.
Relandscape the White House - remove the Bushes!
It wasn't all about abortion rights; of course - there were also anti-war demonstrators, gay rights demonstrators ("Gay marriage is a reproductive issue!"), a huge Kerry contingent, and even a couple of signs that said "Free Martha!" I'm not sure how the Republicans for Choice felt about signs like "Put a Bush and a Dick in the White House, Get Screwed" and "Put the Government on a no carb diet - No Cheney, No Ashcroft, No Rumsfeld, and no Bush" much less the occasional "Buck Fush!" (Civility was not necessarily the name of the day. Although I will confess, I thought "Pro-Life People can Fuck Themselves" was... apropos.)
My Vagina, My Voice, My Cunt, My Choice
The march kicked off roughly half an hour late (no huge surprise there, considering the number of people involved!) I wish I could remember all the homemade signs that had been added to the premade ones - I'm quoting some but not all and not the cleverest. It was great to see the amazing turnout though - signs in Spanish & English, held by people of all races and both genders.
Not the Church! Not the State! Women Must Decide Their Fate!
At the first corner we turned there were a few more gory fetus pictures - and a guy with a bullhorn shouting that we had all "chosen this day to go to hell." There were other counter-protestors scattered throughout the route, until Pennsylvania Ave.
Your Mother Is Pro-Life! (I went to the side of the street to point out "Actually, she's pro-choice. She chose to have me." He didn't know what to say to that.)
Pennsylvania Ave had been turned into a gauntlet; a thin line of people on each side had even more of the (same) picture of a dismembered fetus, pictures of babies saying "Choose Life," a few "I regret my abortion" signs and lots and lots of pictures of Jesus, who, according to the slogans, was crying/condemning us/forgiving us our sins. People told us "we're called the right because we are" and "we're right so you must be WRONG." A guy screaming that we were all sluts climbed the barricade and had to be hauled back. A guy in skull face paint shouted down a megaphone how the only choice is celibacy, several teenagers had signs saying that we had murdered their friends, boyfriends, and 1/3 of their classmates, and one woman complained that her son had had to go to China to adopt a child because "they were all aborted" here. (Aside from the ugly notion that other women exist to incubate for her kid, that's going to be surprising news to the people I know who adopted domestically.) The quietest and, I must confess, most dignified, counterprotestors were the priests in full gear, holding their croiziers and something that looked like a reliquary, standing quietly in front of a church. Peppered in among all these were people from our march, holding our signs. My particular favorite was the guy in a march shirt, holding a homemade sign, arrows to either side of him, announcing "I'm with Stupid."
Three Generations Marching For Choice
The teens on the sidewalks were far outnumbered by the ones in the march, eager as only a teen can be. Some were with their families, some with friends or college classmates, and it seemed like quite a few on their own. And there were even younger people marching. At one point, it was a very small, very young voice giving the cues for the marchers to shout:
"What do we want?" "CHOICE!" "When do we want it?" "NOW!"
As the march turned back down 7th Avenue, I doubled back up Pennsylvania. I had picked up another "Real Sex Ed Saves Lives" sign, and stood between anti-abortion protestors holding it up, watching an unending wall of people flood down a four-lane street. That's when I was cheered and high-fived & told I was brave, at least until the cop told me I had to move on. (According to the paper this morning, the anti-abortionists had a permit to line PA Ave. Oh. On the other hand, 16 anti-abortionists who were harassing us off of PA Ave got arrested.)
Another ___ For Choice (Space left for handwritten noun - lesbian, scientist, student, Grandmother...)
I went peacefully away, figuring that the march permit included the street, so on the street I would stay. That I stopped in the street and held my sign in front of another anti-choice protestor was sheer bitchery on my part. But if they're going to lie down in front of our clinics, I'm going to peacefully assemble my ass in front of them.
Get Your Bush out of Mine!
Another marcher joined me and we blocked them for a while. A few people stopped to take pictures of the tableau, while the guy behind me nattered on about how he was going to be on the news "and lady, they're not taking your picture, they're taking mine. You won't be on the news, I will." I burst out laughing at that - "A million women and you think the news vans are here to see you?" I laughed harder when he said "Yes!" so he started nagging me about "aren't your arms tired? Give up holding that sign" until another cop told him to stop trying to get into a pissing contest. (Using those words, which amused me.) There were a lot of marchers who were blocking march protestors; you could always tell where a protest was, though, because the chants started up loudly from the marchers to drown them out. "Choice! Choice! Choice!" "My body, my choice!" "Not the church! Not the state! Women must decide their fate!" (In the megaphones of the radical feminists, all marching in hot pink with "this is not an object" written across their butts, the chant was "Not the church! Not the state! We're the ones who ovulate!")
Rich Women Will Always Have Access to Abortion
It's one thing to choose for yourself. It's a hell of another to choose for someone else. That's the part that always gets me. I have plenty of respect for the people I know who say "I could never have an abortion." That's their choice. That's their right! It's when one person decides for everyone that's a travesty - particularly one person who will not live with the consequences, will not support you - just wants to punish you for having sex!
Vote As If Your Life Depended On It
It was now 3pm; I had been downtown since 9:30. I'd been counted, cheered, and jeered, and now my legs were tired and I wanted to go home! I stood on the retaining wall and looked back down Pennsylvania avenue before I left, though... During parts of the march the route doubled back on itself, so you could look across a block and see the sheer length of the line. But nothing beat the view of an unending mass of marchers, just as strong as when the march started 2 1/2 hours before, still coming with no end in sight.
Hundreds of thousands of marchers says CNN. NOW, who was taking names and addresses and then marking the counted people, has another number:
One million, one hundred thousand marchers!!!
Edited to add:
This morning the Post had a glorious picture of wall to wall people on the mall and several articles. The one in Style was sniffy and dismissive; the ones in the main section were a better spread. (Post links should stay live for 2 weeks and may require free registration.)
Women's Rally Draws Vast Crowd
Antiabortion Rally Confronts Huge March
(1000 protestors my ass. I was guessing 100; the news said roughly 200. As opposed to the march, which has been guessed at from 500,000 to over a million, with 750,000 pre-signed up.)
Vignettes from Rally (Hey! I heard the conversation about "in front of the Washington Monument"!)
Photo Gallery If nothing else, look at the first shot, the one of the crowded mall.
A Cause Across Generations
March One of the Largest Mall Events Explains why there's such a discrepancy in headcount.
And then there's the Washington Times article underlining why it was so damn worth it for me to come to work with aching legs:
The Bush administration is scrapping plans to sponsor a major global health and reproductive rights conference that features liberal advocacy groups, including several pro-choice organizations and MoveOn.org, which is spending millions of dollars on negative ads to defeat President Bush. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will withdraw its support today, according to a senior government official.
Quite a day.
Real Sex Ed Saves Lives
My usual rotation at the DC Shakes is the Sunday matinee. DC is dead on Sunday; the metro echoingly empty. Today, at 9am, the trains coming out of Greenbelt, the first stop on the Green line leading from a far-flung suburb, were standing room only. There was one car with "Choose Life" bumperstickers in the parking lot, but - well, read on:
Roe, Roe, Roe Your Choice
I flashed back rather nastily to when I took metro to work, and had be quiet and nice every year when the Anti-Roe protestors were filling up the trains. Only this time, the t-shirts and signs said "This is what a feminist looks like" "Million Muff March" "Stand up for women's rights" One T-shirt had three lines written in Hebrew, with the last one crossed out and something written beneath. The back of the T-shirts read "Talk wisely, (something),
Whose Choice - Yours or Theirs?
There was a mass exodus at Archives, with NARAL people handing out signs and maps at the top of the elevators. I got there early; early enough to walk up and down the mall, buying buttons and looking at everything. There were a few booths set up; a diaper changing station, a couple first aid stands, lemonade, pins. In the middle of the mall a handful of people stood holding signs that just had numbers, where the states and some of the other major groups were to gather. Nobody was where Maryland was supposed to gather, so I kept wandering until I found the Freethinkers. I sat with them for a while, but curiousity soon put me back on my feet to explore, and I was glad I did; I saw a lot more than I would have if I stayed where I was supposed to.
My Body is Not Public Property
I wasn't the only wanderer. There were people in green sashes, making the official NOW crowd count. There were eager volunteers, many of them teens just barely legal to vote themselves, registering people to vote. And there were petitions everywhere. I followed the sound of the Angry Grannies singing their version of the Battle Hymn of the Republic ("Getting pro-choice for our daughters was a terrible hard fight, and today we're marching on!") and ended up at a table with a petition against the Gag rule, which I signed.
I'm Pro Choice and I Pray
Up by the Capitol, there was a stage where assorted pro-choice religious groups were having hymn sings (including several rabbis). It was also the first sign of the opposition aside from the 10 Commandment van driving up and down the street with "March for Death" written on the sides; there were a couple bloody dismembered fetus posters. I stood between them and the stage for a while. Originally I had a sign (Real Sex Ed Saves Lives; of all the slogans, that was my favorite), but someone came up and asked me where I got it, explaining that he taught sex ed in his school and really wanted it. Since I'd just picked it off a pile and he was wearing a march shirt, I told him, "you need it more than I do" and gave mine to him.
Our bodies, our voices, our lives, our choices
The speeches were beginning when I wandered back to the Freethinkers. Despite the many large screens and speaker towers, it was occasionally hard to hear & see what was going on, particularly when the towers were overlapping. I got a snack, ate it, and started wandering again. This time I headed to the Washington Monument, where the main stage was.
Medical Students for Choice - Your Future Abortion Providers
Up by the main stage were the major booths. NOW, Ms, Radical Feminists, NARAL were all selling things, mostly t-shirts and buttons. Although the official march color appeared to be hot pink, I picked up a purple NOW march shirt and matching ballcap to keep the threatened rain off my glasses. (Other souveniers of the day included a "Gay Rights Are Civil Rights" button and a beautiful handpainted pin commemorating the march.) And under a set of signs demanding emergency over-the-counter emergency contraception, several NYC MDs were handing out perscriptions for Plan B. One wasn't even taking names, just scribbling a signature and handing out slips as fast as she could sign. Each had 12 refills.
Relandscape the White House - remove the Bushes!
It wasn't all about abortion rights; of course - there were also anti-war demonstrators, gay rights demonstrators ("Gay marriage is a reproductive issue!"), a huge Kerry contingent, and even a couple of signs that said "Free Martha!" I'm not sure how the Republicans for Choice felt about signs like "Put a Bush and a Dick in the White House, Get Screwed" and "Put the Government on a no carb diet - No Cheney, No Ashcroft, No Rumsfeld, and no Bush" much less the occasional "Buck Fush!" (Civility was not necessarily the name of the day. Although I will confess, I thought "Pro-Life People can Fuck Themselves" was... apropos.)
My Vagina, My Voice, My Cunt, My Choice
The march kicked off roughly half an hour late (no huge surprise there, considering the number of people involved!) I wish I could remember all the homemade signs that had been added to the premade ones - I'm quoting some but not all and not the cleverest. It was great to see the amazing turnout though - signs in Spanish & English, held by people of all races and both genders.
Not the Church! Not the State! Women Must Decide Their Fate!
At the first corner we turned there were a few more gory fetus pictures - and a guy with a bullhorn shouting that we had all "chosen this day to go to hell." There were other counter-protestors scattered throughout the route, until Pennsylvania Ave.
Your Mother Is Pro-Life! (I went to the side of the street to point out "Actually, she's pro-choice. She chose to have me." He didn't know what to say to that.)
Pennsylvania Ave had been turned into a gauntlet; a thin line of people on each side had even more of the (same) picture of a dismembered fetus, pictures of babies saying "Choose Life," a few "I regret my abortion" signs and lots and lots of pictures of Jesus, who, according to the slogans, was crying/condemning us/forgiving us our sins. People told us "we're called the right because we are" and "we're right so you must be WRONG." A guy screaming that we were all sluts climbed the barricade and had to be hauled back. A guy in skull face paint shouted down a megaphone how the only choice is celibacy, several teenagers had signs saying that we had murdered their friends, boyfriends, and 1/3 of their classmates, and one woman complained that her son had had to go to China to adopt a child because "they were all aborted" here. (Aside from the ugly notion that other women exist to incubate for her kid, that's going to be surprising news to the people I know who adopted domestically.) The quietest and, I must confess, most dignified, counterprotestors were the priests in full gear, holding their croiziers and something that looked like a reliquary, standing quietly in front of a church. Peppered in among all these were people from our march, holding our signs. My particular favorite was the guy in a march shirt, holding a homemade sign, arrows to either side of him, announcing "I'm with Stupid."
Three Generations Marching For Choice
The teens on the sidewalks were far outnumbered by the ones in the march, eager as only a teen can be. Some were with their families, some with friends or college classmates, and it seemed like quite a few on their own. And there were even younger people marching. At one point, it was a very small, very young voice giving the cues for the marchers to shout:
"What do we want?" "CHOICE!" "When do we want it?" "NOW!"
As the march turned back down 7th Avenue, I doubled back up Pennsylvania. I had picked up another "Real Sex Ed Saves Lives" sign, and stood between anti-abortion protestors holding it up, watching an unending wall of people flood down a four-lane street. That's when I was cheered and high-fived & told I was brave, at least until the cop told me I had to move on. (According to the paper this morning, the anti-abortionists had a permit to line PA Ave. Oh. On the other hand, 16 anti-abortionists who were harassing us off of PA Ave got arrested.)
Another ___ For Choice (Space left for handwritten noun - lesbian, scientist, student, Grandmother...)
I went peacefully away, figuring that the march permit included the street, so on the street I would stay. That I stopped in the street and held my sign in front of another anti-choice protestor was sheer bitchery on my part. But if they're going to lie down in front of our clinics, I'm going to peacefully assemble my ass in front of them.
Get Your Bush out of Mine!
Another marcher joined me and we blocked them for a while. A few people stopped to take pictures of the tableau, while the guy behind me nattered on about how he was going to be on the news "and lady, they're not taking your picture, they're taking mine. You won't be on the news, I will." I burst out laughing at that - "A million women and you think the news vans are here to see you?" I laughed harder when he said "Yes!" so he started nagging me about "aren't your arms tired? Give up holding that sign" until another cop told him to stop trying to get into a pissing contest. (Using those words, which amused me.) There were a lot of marchers who were blocking march protestors; you could always tell where a protest was, though, because the chants started up loudly from the marchers to drown them out. "Choice! Choice! Choice!" "My body, my choice!" "Not the church! Not the state! Women must decide their fate!" (In the megaphones of the radical feminists, all marching in hot pink with "this is not an object" written across their butts, the chant was "Not the church! Not the state! We're the ones who ovulate!")
Rich Women Will Always Have Access to Abortion
It's one thing to choose for yourself. It's a hell of another to choose for someone else. That's the part that always gets me. I have plenty of respect for the people I know who say "I could never have an abortion." That's their choice. That's their right! It's when one person decides for everyone that's a travesty - particularly one person who will not live with the consequences, will not support you - just wants to punish you for having sex!
Vote As If Your Life Depended On It
It was now 3pm; I had been downtown since 9:30. I'd been counted, cheered, and jeered, and now my legs were tired and I wanted to go home! I stood on the retaining wall and looked back down Pennsylvania avenue before I left, though... During parts of the march the route doubled back on itself, so you could look across a block and see the sheer length of the line. But nothing beat the view of an unending mass of marchers, just as strong as when the march started 2 1/2 hours before, still coming with no end in sight.
Hundreds of thousands of marchers says CNN. NOW, who was taking names and addresses and then marking the counted people, has another number:
One million, one hundred thousand marchers!!!
Edited to add:
This morning the Post had a glorious picture of wall to wall people on the mall and several articles. The one in Style was sniffy and dismissive; the ones in the main section were a better spread. (Post links should stay live for 2 weeks and may require free registration.)
Women's Rally Draws Vast Crowd
Antiabortion Rally Confronts Huge March
(1000 protestors my ass. I was guessing 100; the news said roughly 200. As opposed to the march, which has been guessed at from 500,000 to over a million, with 750,000 pre-signed up.)
Vignettes from Rally (Hey! I heard the conversation about "in front of the Washington Monument"!)
Photo Gallery If nothing else, look at the first shot, the one of the crowded mall.
A Cause Across Generations
March One of the Largest Mall Events Explains why there's such a discrepancy in headcount.
And then there's the Washington Times article underlining why it was so damn worth it for me to come to work with aching legs:
The Bush administration is scrapping plans to sponsor a major global health and reproductive rights conference that features liberal advocacy groups, including several pro-choice organizations and MoveOn.org, which is spending millions of dollars on negative ads to defeat President Bush. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will withdraw its support today, according to a senior government official.
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Date: 2004-04-25 04:10 pm (UTC)May I give the URL to this report to folk in my newsgroup?
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Date: 2004-04-26 05:08 am (UTC)Be my guest. Come back and reread in a bit; I'm going to fix some typos and add a touch here or there this morning. This was written in a rush before I forgot everything yesterday.
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Date: 2004-04-25 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-26 06:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-25 04:51 pm (UTC)Wish I could have been there, but I had another walk to participate in today, one that makes just as much of an impact on my own life personally.
Thank you for being there, for those of us who couldn't.
Yes, I am one of those who says, "I could never have an abortion." And that's MY choice.
To quote someone on another LJ, "Keep it safe. Keep it legal. And keep it ultimately unnecessary."
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Date: 2004-04-25 05:49 pm (UTC)There is always failure of the most failsafe systems: I suffered one using an IUD, and had to abort, since my high BP and other health problems would have killed me or left me a stroke victim, and Richard with 2 boys and a baby... and a brain dead wife.
It not ever something one wants to deal with, but I won't let anyone say that it doesn't happen unless one is careless or doesn't care....
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Date: 2004-04-25 06:10 pm (UTC)I believe that "ultimately unnecessary" means that at some point in the future, medical science takes us to the point where the mother's life will not be in danger, birth control will be at the point where it will be practically fail-safe, and Plan B type "morning after" contraceptives will prevent a woman (especially in the case of rape or incest) from becoming pregnant at all (pregnancy defined as implantation).
Perhaps I should rephrase this person's quote as "And hopefully keep it unnecessary"?
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Date: 2004-04-26 06:20 am (UTC)I agree, which is why it terrifies me that it is being chiselled back - and under such ludicrous notions as "we don't like this type of abortion, so we're going to simply say that it's not necessary to save a woman's health... and we're going to loot the medical records of anyone who disagrees." Or "emergency contraception encourages slutty behavior; if we don't give them Plan B over the counter, they'll keep their knees together." (Can an atheist bless people? Because I was blessing all the doctors writing perscriptions for Plan B.)
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Date: 2004-04-26 06:11 am (UTC)Which is the whole point of "choice" in the first place. Giving us the control over what happens to us.
How was the MS walk?
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Date: 2004-04-26 08:49 am (UTC)Considering that most of the teams in front of us had FAR more people on their teams (the top number of people on a team was 81, and we had only 11 max), I think we did a damned good job!!! :)
We got interviewed by both the naval student radio station and a local group of nursing students from Towson, and we got a LOT of press out there for the MSFB in August!!! :)
(speaking of which, http://www.MSFantasyBall.com, keep your eye out for more details soon!!!
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Date: 2004-04-26 06:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-26 07:48 am (UTC)Between thee and me, I hope there isn't a need for a next time. But rumor has it there will be an anti-choice march in January.
Thank you!
Date: 2004-04-26 08:03 am (UTC)Thank you for making the effort to be a voice for many of us who were there in spirit if not in body.
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2004-04-26 09:42 am (UTC)Glad to do it. Very heady stuff, my first protest. FWIW, remember it's always good to have more numbers for something like this, it would have been hard to wedge another body into the crowd!
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Date: 2004-04-26 10:46 am (UTC)Barbara
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Date: 2004-04-26 11:29 am (UTC)A couple of weeks back there was an article in The Dallas News about pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control pills because it was against their principles.
I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in New York and New Jersey, there are a whole lot of Republicans who would have been happy to carry some of those anti-Bush signs.
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Date: 2004-04-26 12:23 pm (UTC)I know - and they're pushing for a law in Texas that would make social conciencious (sp?) objecting *legal* in cases like that. One wonders what's next - refusing to fill AIDS perscriptions because "it's your fault for screwing around"?
there are a whole lot of Republicans who would have been happy to carry some of those anti-Bush signs.
The Republicans for Choice contingent was not small. But which way will they vote? I know one person who's gonna vote for Bush no matter what; she thinks he won't overturn Roe v Wade. I wish I was so sanguine. But I know other Republicans who are very unhappy with Bush's notion of what the GOP is supposed to stand for.
What's frosting my flakes now is that the op ed pieces are going up on google news - including several with quotes from women who've had abortions and changed their mind & are now counter-demonstrators, the ultimate "do as I say, not as I do." So far, when asked about marchers who have also had abortions, the responses are along the lines of "They're in denial." "They don't know how much they've hurt themselves." And my favorite "They have a lot of STDs, so they have double the problems."
In other words - "The way I feel is how everyone feels. If you feel differently, it's not valid, you're lying to yourself. That is why my opinion should rule your actions."
Yeah, the day I get to come to your house and rearrange the furniture is the day you pull the strings on my life.
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Date: 2004-04-26 06:43 pm (UTC)Fun, wasn't it?(grin)
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Date: 2004-04-27 04:51 am (UTC)It was a BLAST!
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Date: 2004-04-27 07:06 pm (UTC)And FYI, I jotted down a bunch of different homemade signs while on the train back to NYC afterward, if you want to hop on over to my LJ...
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Date: 2004-04-27 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-28 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-28 04:09 am (UTC)I've put my favorites in my Memories Section (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=luna_k&keyword=March+for+Women%27s+Lives+%284/25/04%29&filter=all), and I'm still looking for more. :)