There is a verse in their "holy book" that says: "Do not lie. Do not deceive one another." Antis constantly tell us that we must live by their God's law. Hypocrite much?
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Saturday, January 30th, sucked for patients at the Pinkhouse as 5 of our 72 protesters constantly blocked traffic in the driveway. But abortion clinics in Wisconsin, Maryland, & North Carolina said "hold my beer…".
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2021 promises to bring more challenges to abortion access across America, despite the election of a new administration. While the Hyde Amendment may finally be retired, so many state legislatures became more Republican and therefore, more anti-choice.
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Today marks the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Since its passage in 1973, we have seen over 1,200 restrictions passed in states making access harder and stigma greater. In six states, there is just one clinic left, hanging on by the thinnest of threads. Like Mississippi.
That’s why this week in Mississippi, it seems only fitting for this year’s Roe anniversary there would be an introduction of a full ban on abortion. On January 18th, Rep. Dan Eubanks introduced a bill calling for a total abortion ban and criminalization of abortion in Mississippi.
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On January 6th, there were SO many antis in Washington D.C at the U.S. Capitol. This Venn Diagram is a circle – the extreme right wing and anti-abortion extremists - these factions are pretty much the same. All this entitlement that anti-abortion “protesters” feel at clinics was on display at the Capitol on Wednesday. They felt like nothing would happen to them, because it rarely if ever does.
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For We Engage, 2020 was our first full year as an “real” organization. It wasn’t the year we had envisioned (thanks, 2020!), but with your support, we still made some noise, made some waves. So what did 2020 look like for We Engage? We might say 2020 was the year the rules of engagement changed.
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"Access: A podcast about abortion" is a great source of information about abortion and abortion access. Derenda Hancock and Kim Gibson of We Engage took part in the November podcast, along with some great providers and defenders from around the country.
Host Garnet Henderson talked to defenders from Charlotte for Choice, clinic owners Calla Hales of North Carolina and Lara Chelian of Michigan, along with escort Steph Black of Washington DC, as well as clinic escorts Elena Salisbury in Nebraska and L & S in New Jersey.
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October 1, 2020 was the one year anniversary of the “Ordinance Prohibiting Certain Activities Near Healthcare Facilities” aka the buffer zone ordinance passed by the city of Jackson. We jokingly refer to it as the “Twilight Buffer Zone” as it only exists on paper, because in one year not one anti abortion protester had been cited for violating the ordinance, despite there being an anti in violation pretty much EVERY DAY there were patients present.
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In the last presidential debate, the president told the "western chauvinist", white supremacist hate group the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by." And since 2016, the president has escalated tensions across America, especially at reproductive health clinics with his extremist (and false) anti-abortion rhetoric.
At a Planned Parenthood in Charleston, SC this past Saturday, guess who showed up outside with the antis, per their invitation?
Yep, the Proud Boys.
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Engagement is everything, especially now. Since the escalation of anti-abortion extremist activity in the past few years, and the seating of Amy Barrett on the Supreme Court, we really have to “escalate” our own pro-choice engagement. In the comments of our last post, and so often in others, we hear “what can we do”?
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Thursday, October 22 saw a large well-funded group of anti-abortion terrorists stage clinic invasions aka “rescues” at two reproductive health clinics in Washington, DC - Washington Surgi-Clinic and Capital Women’s Services.
Thursday saw what is called a “lock and block” or “traditional rescue” at Washington Surgi-Clinic…
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The weekend of October 23 - 25, Nashville, was host to the 2020 Street and Open Air Preacher Conference. However, this is one conference the Tourism Bureau and the city could probably do without.
Street preachers, or “open air” preachers have been a growing phenomenon over the years, and the conference brought hundreds of them to Nashville. Of them, Ruben Israel is the best known, having been featured on VICELAND’s "Hate Thy Neighbor" series.
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With all of the "trumped up" rhetoric these days surrounding abortion, antis are even MORE emboldened these days, and they believe they can pretty much do what ever they like on the sidewalks outside of clinics. From what we can tell, no one is telling them they can't.
The national anti-abortion nonprofit organization 40 Days for Life apparently believes that their anti-abortion protesters are deserving of more "peace and security" than other people, you know, like patients they come to harass…
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You know how the word “twilight” is sometimes used to describe things that are there, but NOT REALLY there? Like you think you can see them, but they really have no substance? Like The Twilight Zone?
October marked the one-year anniversary of the city of Jackson voting on and passing an “Ordinance Prohibiting Certain Activities Near Healthcare Facilities”. Voted on on October 1, 2019, and enacted October 31, the ordinance looks good on paper and nowhere else.
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In November 2018, after seeing Amy McGrath in KY lose a race by 2-3 points thanks, in my opinion, to an 11th hour late-term abortion "baby killer" propaganda ad, I had to find out more. I read a few books and watched a few documentaries and sent a few emails.
That following March I returned to Mississippi 30+ years later to find out an ugly truth about our country, and about how we treat women and girls who didn't have the protections that our team, our parents, our sport gave us for most of our lives.
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