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JanMichael

(24,890 posts)
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 08:17 PM Jan 2013

"Hundreds of parents bundled up their infants....."

Hundreds of parents had bundled up their infants and toddlers and strapped protest signs to their strollers. Michael Kennedy, 33, and his wife Bethany, who is pregnant, drove their four children down from Westerly, Rhode Island to stand in 20-degree weather on the Mall.


This was at the anti-choice march in DC today.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/25/john-boehner-abortion-march-for-life_n_2552597.html
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CaliforniaPeggy

(149,627 posts)
2. You cannot stop something that the people really want.
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 08:24 PM
Jan 2013

Legal or not, abortion will always be here.

In order to protect those who need it, we must keep it legal, so the providers will do right by their customers.

handmade34

(22,756 posts)
3. what the hell is wrong
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 08:26 PM
Jan 2013

with these people... they want to punish people for having fun?

"...right and wrong have become subservient to a hedonism of the moment..."

...that statement is only true if one is talking about wealthy people using loopholes to get out of paying their taxes

appleannie1

(5,067 posts)
4. They bundled their babies. Why would any caring parent take their babies out in this
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 08:31 PM
Jan 2013

frigid weather to protest for hours? Or do they only care before birth? Good grief, they are even telling people not to leave their animals out in this cold.

JanMichael

(24,890 posts)
5. That's the part that freaked me out; I *get* the anti-choice people....they believe they are doing
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 08:37 PM
Jan 2013

something "right and moral." Whatever, I don't care if they stand in negative 15 degrees to express themselves. But, taking infants and small children??!!

Our dog wore a coat to be leash walked today...short walks.....and then came in to sit on her fuzzy blanket on the couch. We are 3 or 4 hundred miles SOUTH of DC.

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
6. Wasn't there some sort of outrage about someone using children for
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 09:14 PM
Jan 2013

political props?

Oh, yeah ... it was because children were victims of shootings, and the person using the "props" was a Democrat.

AnnieBW

(10,427 posts)
7. It was 25 degrees in DC today
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 11:07 PM
Jan 2013

I live in the DC metro area. It was 25 degrees outside today. It started to snow about 2 PM. The fucking anti-choicers are so stupid that they have their big rally in DC in late January, when the weather is the coldest. And, on a weekday? Blocking major traffic arteries, sidewalks, and Metro? Yeah, way to endear yourselves to the locals, folks.

They're seagulls. They fly in, crap all over everything, make a lot of noise, then fly away.

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