From the Sidewalk
See what happens on the clinic sidewalks…
and beyond…
We Engage is a SUPER small org. We would love to post more about our last days at Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Nashville and Jezebel Rebellion, along with all the other important things to know about abortion access and getting engaged in pushing back on those who are pushing us backwards. And we will. But, hell, who can even keep up these days.
We can’t. Here’s why.
Read MoreSo often, clinic escorts don’t tell people that they volunteer to help people outside clinics that provide abortion care…
Read MoreRecently, Jordan Smith of The Intercept talked with the Pinkhouse Defenders for the story, The FIght to Protect Abortion Access Amid the Pandemic., documenting the difficulties accessing abortion care during the pandemic.
The fight to provide access to abortion care is being fought daily across America. And it shouldn't be a fight. Patients shouldn’t have to fight for healthcare; patient care should be paramount.
Read MoreLooking back a few months ago, life was pretty simple. The primary responsibility of a Pinkhouse Defender was to get patients from their car to the clinic door with as little harassment as possible and make sure folks parked right. When you've done this as long as we have, the circus on the sidewalk was commonplace, just another ordinary day at the Pinkhouse. Then Covid-19 happened and suddenly, almost everything changed. What has not changed is the anti presence at the clinic.
Read MoreWe Engage and the Pinkhouse Defenders, like everyone, have been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. All the things. With everything going on all the time, we have just been running around doing ALL THE THINGS. And we are on kind of a “reduced operating force” as many defenders haven't been able to join us for various reasons, be it health, work or otherwise. And we miss them.
Read MoreCOVID-19 is a worldwide pandemic. One of our defenders, Jaz Brisack, is a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, England, and penned an editorial piece for Beyond Europe titled Corona Crisis Has Unmasked Anti-Choice Advocates Agenda - Controlling Pregnant People Life Be Damned.
Read MoreThe declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed things all over, but you know the old saying, the more things change the more they stay the same...and that certainly goes for antis and their "antics."
We have seen COVID-19 ignored by antis when they want to congregate at clinics harassing patients and escorts, ignoring pleas to stay at home, to stay 6 feet from people (including patients who are possibly pregnant), endangering the health of others, including the people they CLAIM to want to help. We even have an anti who is a doctor outside the clinic saying “I don’t care about 6 feet, y’all do.”
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