Thin Orange Line

[neadods]

ETA: Planned Parenthood is sending an urgent call to ask people to call their Congresscritter at 202-730-9001 to urge opposition to the Stupak Amendment that will eliminate any abortion coverage from health care reform. None, not even with private funds.

Thoughts from a clinic parking lot:

1) It makes no sense to shout "We have brochures in Spanish" in English.

2) It makes even less sense for a member of an all-white protesting team to play the race card on the all-white escort team.

3) We're not *that* kind of an escort service. (If there's anyone who really gets off by seeing someone in a baggy orange vest over a baggy coat standing in a parking lot, I don't even want to know.) Does anybody seriously think clinic escorts are paid for it?

4) It's good to have a little food, because then you can stuff something in your mouth when you open it to yell back at the protesters.

4a) The Starbucks insulated travel mug will only keep a drink hot for an hour during cold weather.

5) It's good to have flyers for the escorting organization because once in a blue moon, the only way someone knows how to find out more about joining is to walk up to an escort.

6) I should probably get a little more protein at breakfast before a shift, because imagining how fun it would be if we suddenly broke into some choreographed dance number in the parking lot was completely insane.

7) Being a shit-stirrer isn't as edgy and cool as you think it is around the age of 17.

Comments

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

Thank you for doing what you do.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I always feel guilty when I'm thanked because this is one of the "quiet" clinics; it's not like breaking through an Operation Rescue blockade.

But it still has its protesters, one of whom has suddenly decided to get noisy, so it needs its guardians too.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

PS - Can you think of any places we'll be around each other in the nearish future? I've found a big jar of marbles for Boy and the marble race.

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

Walking into one of these places can be a scary thing. Knowing there are people you don't even know who will support you in the walk from your car to the door is a very, very important thing.

I can't think of any time we'll be near each other offhand, but I'll bet we could arrange something--want to join us in a viewing of a tree? Getting the marbles would be faboo, as most of the marbles are migrating. One day we're going to pick up all the furniture, and find a plethora of the things.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Someday mighty oaks will grow from the acorns the kittens keep batting under the radiators.

Knowing there are people you don't even know who will support you in the walk from your car to the door is a very, very important thing.

And that's why I do it.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

6 - I wanna see it! :D

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I would love the hell out of doing it, but talk about wrong place, wrong time! (Especially because today *every* time I walked into the middle of the lot, someone drove in. Every time.)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Hmm, odd!

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

Seconded! And video, if you please...

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

*giggles* We need a dancing Nea!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

*snort* I dance like Where The Hell is Matt.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

And the problem with this is what?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Nothing, I just don't want to put it on youtube!

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

1) Good point.

2) "Yeah! That's right! I'm white! What are you gonna do about it, whitey?"

3) Have you considered starting a side-service? Escorts that don't call attention to the fact that they're escorts.

4) Peanut butter works well.

4a) Starbucks needs to address this. Possibly with self-heating cups. The technology is there.

5)Good point. Especially if your mouth is stuffed with peanut butter.

6. Dip your bacon in peanut butter.

7. Yeah, but with age comes experience. And with experience comes more ways to stir shit.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

Alternate to #7... "Old age and sneakiness overcomes youth and loudmouth @$$holishness."

[neadods.livejournal.com]

2) "Yeah! That's right! I'm white! What are you gonna do about it, whitey?"

We are apparently racists for aiding racial genocide (i.e., abortion). They are not racists because they want to help women... by imposing their rules on them. The not bothering to learn a single phrase of Spanish ices that cake nicely.

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

You could always tell them that they are the poster children for retroactive abortions and confuse the shit outta them.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

We're not there to counter protest, just get women in quietly and with as little stress as possible.

[museclio]

its better than dick at 16th st. he memorized a few phrases and says them to ny one who is brown

[neadods.livejournal.com]

*eyeroll*

The one who pulled the racist card and accused us of escorting for profit has until now been completely silent; prayed to herself and held her sign. That's changed.

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

Thank you for doing this.

(FYI, the House switchboard took 30 rings to answer and my rep's mailbox was full. So I sent an online letter. Arrrgh.)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

These are good signs, IMO.

As I said to tchwrtr, I feel I need to go down to one of the really contentious clinics to truly earn thanks. But this one is on home territory.

(I'm rather assuming that I'll get all the action I need the weeks before and after the anniversary of Roe v Wade. I've already blocked off both weekends in the calendar.)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize when I scheduled it that it was the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

!!!!!!!!!! Oh, my deepest sympathies. That was the height of the Operation Rescue stuff too, IIRC, without any of the safe zone safeguards we have now.

Nevertheless, I'm going to be in my orange vest the Saturday before and after.

I'm personally torn - I want the amendment dropped, but I'm wondering if it's more important to pass healthcare and then fix it than have the right bill shot down and nothing happen at all.

[rainbow-gray.livejournal.com]

Hullo, just passing through from random corners of the internets, but I wanted to leave some love behind for being an escort.

Also, I am calling the insurance riders women would have to purchase in order to pay for abortions the Woman Tax, because that is what it is.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Woman Tax is a very good name for it!