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Women's rights defenders counter anti-choice crusaders

by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
About 500 defenders of women's rights attempted to counter a mobilization of nearly 10,000 anti-choice crusaders in San Francisco today.
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About 500 defenders of women's rights attempted to counter a mobilization of nearly 10,000 anti-choice crusaders in San Francisco today. Organized by Catholic church organizations across the entire Western Region, these modern day religious warriors arrived here in the "unholy land" confident that abortion will soon be outlawed across much of the country.

"We're here today because abortion is a right, not a choice,'' said Maya Jones of Oakland, a volunteer with the anti-war group Not in Our Name. "As we come up against this Christian fascism that is condoned by our government, it is more important than ever for people to come into the streets and take a stand.'' - from the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate.com
§"Abortion is a right!"
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Life marchers
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§"Choice"
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Cops secure anti-abortion march route
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§"If you don't like abortion..."
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§March passes by van; "Imprison Bush"
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§CODEPINK Pro-Choice
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§"Keep Abortion Legal"
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Anti-Abortion marcher carries Satan's child
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Who's Supreme Court? Their Supreme Court.
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Do Not Enter
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Anti-Abortion leader dresses the part
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§"The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime"
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Raging Grannies
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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by Jack Ryan
What a glorious day in America! The innocent will survive the dismemberment of the left....

Jack
by Goodbye, so glad they're gone
The only reason the "pro-life" entity is so huge is because they don't believe in sex education or using condoms.

How was it a victory when they just came, acted out in a big show of intolerance, waving their rosaries, then going back home to surburbian Bush-country? They certainly didn't convince me to get on their bus.
by Granny Ruth R
Pro-Life WINS???? NOT if the Raging Grannies have anything to say about it! Grannies still steaming about irritating MEN who came and marched on Anti-Choice side. Hey buddy, if you don't like abortions, keep your pants zipped up and prevent unwanted pregnancies!
by Granny Ruth R.
Thanks, Jeff, always like seeing your photos of us on Indybay. Do introduce yourself to us sometime! Your photo on our website now....
by Totus Tuos
We TOTALLY outnumbered you freaks. Maybe next year your "best friends" Planned parenthood and NOW will help your pitiful endevor.
"Always to me any aroused group was a good group, and therefore I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan..." Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger
(Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366) Planned parenthood loves to kill minority babies.
Most events get bigger the next year unlike yours which shrunk quite drastically this year.
Next year expect more of us because we are multiplying while your side is shrinking since you kill your own children.
Totus Tuos.
by kim rojas (riseupangel [at] yahoo.com)
You young girls that think u know what side you are on. I say to you as a mother of 3 keep living, because you will see that in your life time the rights you think that you have will be taken from you slowly. Lets get real they will not stop with choice they want to take your birth control and then tell you you dont need to be paid the same as a man for the same work because he has a family that he has to take care of. This was the way for so many years but i am sure you know it all and are saying to yourself that will never happen they just want to give every child the right to life I say to you keep living i will see you on the other side of the street sooner then you think are maybe in some form of a jail as free of speach is out the window.

KEEP LIVING SEE YOU SOON YOUNG GIRLS
by Jesus, I trust in Thee.
Peace MUST begin in the WOMB. If we murder the least helpless(the unborn baby) what stops people from murdering toddlers or children?
Jesus, I trust in Thee.
by Religion is irrelevant
And stop trying to murder women by denying them access to legal abortion.
by Simon
The "pro-life" movement is loud and visible, but they've been protesting, and funding (and I do mean funding) and acting angry actively since 1980, I think. But their numbers aren't nearly as big as they would have you believe.

Prisons are full to overflowing as never before, full of men born to mothers who got pregnant young and by accident, and were stuck raising the child in a poor, sad environment. Yet I've never once heard a valid argument on what to do with all of the unwanted kids who grow up angry.
by Sad Sad Guy
I knew it was about winning. This guy is giddy because there were so many pro-lifers there. We win! Yaayyy! What did you win, pal? A cookie?

To be fair, there are morons on both sides of this issue. But the pro-life crowd says way more stupid things.
by WERD
is not the people who got fucked at birth and grew up feeling discarded and alienated

America's essential problem, for those who need this pointed out, is the people who DIDN'T

Which way do you think Dubya grew up? Who pulled Hitler's chariot in 1930s Germany? The marginalized underclass or the cushy-comfy upper middle class? Unless your conscious goal is to unleash another warped greedy asshole on the world, "I want my kid to have the very best" is a motto to avoid like the plague. Looking at the mass of twisted selfish minds all around me today, I'm actually THANKFUL I was raised in poverty by a single mother. I had everything anybody actually needs. When the walls of Rome come tumbling down, my reduced expectations will make me Mr. Well-Adjusted. It's the Silver Spoons who'll be slashing their wrists and going ruthlessly criminal
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