Thin Orange Line
Nov. 7th, 2009 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsETA: 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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Date: 2009-11-08 01:20 am (UTC)!!!!!!!!!! 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.