Abortion Opponents Tell of Their Journey to the Streets

[tonysam]

Action means many things to abortion opponents. Lobbyists and fund-raisers fight for the cause in marble hallways; volunteers at crisis pregnancy centers try to dissuade the pregnant on cozy sofas.

Then there are the protesters like James Pouillon, who was shot dead here last month while holding an anti-abortion sign outside a high school. A martyr to some, an irritant to others, Mr. Pouillon in death has become a blessing of sorts for the loosely acquainted activists who knew him as a friend: proof that abortion doctors are not the only ones under duress, proof that protests matter, and a spark for more action.

“Jim suffered the persecution for us,” said Dan Brewer, who recalls swearing at Mr. Pouillon during one of his one-man protests in the ’90s, only to join him later after becoming a born-again Christian. “Now we just have to go out and do it.”

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It's all for naught, since abortion will never be illegal, but that doesn't stop these people from trying.

The idea women are not worth anything unless they are wives and mothers dies hard.

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Their team owned the WH and Congress for multiple years, and yet abortion is legal.

Yes, they're chipping away at it, but Roe wasn't overturned, which would have guarenteed the ending of abortion services. The chipping away gives these forced-birth proponents some fantasy that abortion will be illegal, but it won't happen.

[tonysam]

2. The right needs an issue to stir up the base

Making abortion illegal would take a major issue away from them.

[Piwi2009]

5. They once had Reagan

They had a popular president with a majority Senate who appointed almost half the federal judges. They still didn't outlaw abortion. Today's prolickers think they're going to do better than that? They might have good days here and there, but illegality will never have a good day.

[MichiganVote]

3. I don't gove a good goddamn who these people are. I'm sick of them. And this issue.

Get the fuck over it.

[niyad]

4. not illegal, perhaps, but nearly impossible to come by--did you see about the new law in OK?

the woman has to answer a 37 question list of the most highly intrusive crap imaginable--and then it will be posted online--making these women targets.

just how much stress are these assholes under? nobody told them to f*** around in other people's lives.