A Day in the Life of an Abortion Clinic Escort

[MountainLaurel]

Last Saturday, I spent my morning in the company of nearly two dozen lurkers, skulkers, stalkers, harassers, and creeps... and I can't wait to do it again.

I am a volunteer abortion clinic escort.

This means I am there to walk with women coming into the abortion clinic. It's usually no more than a minute's walk from their cars to the front door of the clinic.

Under normal circumstances, my help would hardly be needed. Except the circumstances outside an abortion clinic are rarely "normal." Every day that our doors are open to women seeking abortions, the sidewalk in front of our clinic is occupied by people who do anything they think they can get away with to try to keep those women from going inside. These protesters are, by and large, a sideshow of the crazy and the scary and the totally lacking in people skills.

The highlight of my most recent Saturday morning was the offense taken by one of the regular protesters at the sight of me and a client talking and laughing together as we walked. This protester lifted her bullhorn and screeched into it, over all the other shouting from her compadres: "These ladies are not your friends! They're your enemies! They want to sell your baby for parts AND MAKE THEM INTO SHAMPOO!"

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/142920/a_day_in_the_life_of_an_abortion_clinic_escort

[YOY]

1. I want to buy that shampoo!

That dead baby shampoo has to make my hair silky smooth. I shall wear my golden mullet once more... Praise Saint Axel!

[SacredCow]

2. Done it, back in the 1990's when I was still in college....

A friend asked me to be involved, and I am SO glad that I made the time to help.

[stuball111]

3. Is THAT what in Baby shampoo? Ewwww!

How much more utterly stupid are these people going to get? !!! It just keeps getting worse.....

[Berry Cool]

4. Well, why do you think they call it BABY shampoo?

:rofl:

[stuball111]

5. So... the anti-everythings now say that baby shampoo...

is made up from ground up babies.....hmmm...we are running out of synonyms for idiotic and stupid....:shrug: :rofl: this would be laughable if the bastards didn't also have guns....