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Thin Orange Line
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.
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.
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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.
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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.