Posted on 01/22/2005 11:48:38 PM PST by SmithL
Thousands of protesters on both sides of the abortion issue clashed in San Francisco in rival demonstrations Saturday, the 32nd anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
In dueling marches, about 6,000 antiabortion activists in the Walk for Life West Coast were jeered and harangued by about 3,000 advocates for abortion rights, some waving wire hangers.
Walk for Life organizers Dolores Meehan and Eva Muntean said they knew holding an antiabortion rally in the liberal bastion of San Francisco would certainly spark outrage. But doing so would draw the greatest exposure, Meehan said.
"We're trying to change hearts and minds," Meehan said. "We needed to go where people's points of view are a little bit different than ours. If we did this in Indiana, it would be interesting, but it would not have nearly the impact."
Organizers of the dueling protests had divergent strategies. The antiabortion group specifically avoided confronting their opponents, while the pro-choice contingent that lined the Embarcadero berated the larger group with insults and accused them of bringing in people from out of town to bolster their cause.
Two people with the pro-choice group were arrested for assault on a police officer, said police Capt. Denis O'Leary, who estimated the size of the two crowds. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Abortion-rights supporters make their way to San Francisco's Embarcadero to confront abortion opponents taking part in the Walk for Life West Coast.
An abortion rights supporter was arrested by police after her group forced the anti-abortion Walk for Life West Coast to divert their route.
Sally Winn, VP of Feminists for Life of America, speaks at Justin Herman Plaza.
Hmmmm ... will they be facing a possible 47 years in jail ??
Some how I doubt it
Good turnout for San Francisco. Kudos to these courageous people.
California haters on the fringes of FReep, take note.
We went to the pro-life service in our city today. Beautiful and very encouraging.
A speaker gave out stats that were very encouraging concerning the decline in providers and if I am correct, even the number performed. Wish I could remember.
At any rate all of us are making a difference.
NO WIRE HANGERS!
"She" looks like Eminem in a sports bra.
This war of death is not political, or "sad" or culturally divisive. It is Good versus Evil in its starkest and plainest form.
One of the most tragic and saddest commentaries on abortion I ever read was this: How Lying Marketers sold Roe v. Wade to America.
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" "Saline abortions have to be done in the hospital because of complications that can arise," says OB/GYN staffer Debra Henry. "Not that they can't arise during other times, but more so now. The saline, a salt solution, is injected into the woman's sac and the baby swallows it. The baby starts dying a slow, violent death. The mother feels everything, and many times it is at this point when she realizes that she really has a live baby inside of her, because the baby starts fighting violently for his or her life. He's just fighting inside because he's burning.
"One night a lady delivered and I was called to come and see her because she was uncontrollable," says David Brewer, M.D., of Glen Ellyn, Ill. As a military physician in Ft. Rucher, Ala., Brewer performed abortions for 10 years. "I went in the room, and she was going to pieces; she was having a nervous breakdown, screaming and thrashing. The nurses were upset because they couldn't get any work done, and all the other patients were upset because this lady was screaming. I walked in, and here was her little saline abortion baby kicking. It had been born alive, and was kicking and moving for a little while before it finally died of those terrible burns, because the salt solution gets into the lungs and burns the lungs, too."
Amen.
The only thing he can do is ask for the redemption that God has offered through the Christ. It does not say in the article that he has done that, only that abortion finally sickened him to such a degree that the cash payments overflowing in his pockets was not enough to continue the bloody practice.
"This war of death is not political, or "sad" or culturally divisive. It is Good versus Evil in its starkest and plainest form. "
Amen.
That really sums it up.
~ CCC - Born, raised, and still living in the Bay Area
There were plenty more there just like she/he/it.
Continuing their march intio irrelevancy - Hup.2,3, 4.
Actually, Barbara Bush was. She chose life. They hate-filled leftists are hard-pressed to say the word abortion and have to resort to empty euphemisms and rhetoric to get their brain-dead talking points across.
They rolled their eyes and said: "Sure, tell us."
She said: "I would bet several of you had abortions when you were younger, and the guilt is something that makes you furious. Democrats tell you that what you did was noble and necessary."
The party generated into a shouting fest, and many people left. The woman who challenged them tried to tell them she had had 2 abortions years ago, and knew what they felt, but there was no room for discussion. I never saw a room with so much tension and hostility.
I was there....
Two observations:
A pro-abort sign-waver with a poster reading "Protect My Daughter's Rights"
--- HUH?
The pro-abort contingent was, not unsurprisingly given the venue, heavily skewed with gays and lesbians
--- what was that old saying?
You no play-a the GAME, you no make-a the RULES? Leave the Life issues to the BREEDERS!
It was gratifying to show to the world that there are actually normal people who live on Ora Sinistra, the Left Coast.
Mantilla Militant
Dr. Nathanson became pro-life and then became a Christian.
He is responsible for the "Silent Scream" and has now devoted himself to overturning the damage he has done.
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