Mourning in Montgomery

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"Mia Raven began to gently explain to (a woman) that her appointment was canceled, that the unthinkable had happened, that abortion was now illegal in Alabama."

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Mourning in Montgomery
Clinic escorts and employees process the loss of abortion rights in Alabama.
9:30 AM · Jun 28, 2022

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/abortion-clinic-shut-down-montgomery-alabama-what-happened/

The Monday morning after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, decimating the near-50-year-old constitutional right to abortion, a red pickup truck pulled into the near-empty parking lot at Reproductive Health Services, Montgomery, Alabama’s abortion clinic. The driver, a woman from Birmingham, an hour-and-a-half away, rolled down her window as a petite white woman with a pink ponytail, wearing a bright rainbow vest, strode across the cracked asphalt to meet her. When she reached the truck, Mia Raven began to gently explain that her appointment was canceled, that the unthinkable had happened, that abortion was now illegal in Alabama.

When she reached the truck, Mia Raven began to gently explain that her appointment was canceled, that the unthinkable had happened, that abortion was now illegal in Alabama.
The woman inside the truck was dumbfounded. She told Raven that she had called the clinic in Montgomery that morning before she left and had been assured that the doors were open, that she should come on down. It didn’t take long for Raven to piece together what had happened. She pointed across the street to a building with a sign out front: First Choice Women’s Medical Center.

A man had also walked up to the truck from that direction, but he stayed on the sidewalk, looking at the duo and loudly droning a sermon he had clearly given many times.

“You spoke to the crisis pregnancy center over there,” Raven said flatly. “They won’t help you get an abortion.”

“But they have the word ‘choice’ in the name!” the woman explained.

Raven nodded sympathetically. “I know, baby, that’s how they confuse you.”

She pulled a sheet of paper off the clipboard she’d been clutching and handed it through the window of the truck. At the top of the paper, it read: As of June 24, 2022, abortion is now illegal in Alabama. We hope you find this list of resources & information helpful. Below, there was a list of resources for continuing a pregnancy, the information for a pro-choice adoption agency, and a list of states where abortion is legal (with caveats about gestational bans and that the landscape is shifting quickly). Within moments, the window was rolled back up, and the truck slowly pulled out of the parking lot and out of sight.

*snip*

[LizBeth]

1. These people are sick in the head.

Of course, to clarify, I am talking about the vile people that call themselves Christians hurting desperate women and girls.

[TygrBright]

2. If that had been me, I might have backed, revved, and slammed into the "crisis" center at 80 MPH...

...hoping I'd just die in a fireball or going headfirst through the windscreen.

They might wanna be careful about that shit.

disgustedly,
Bright