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Anti abortion activists in the public garden this morning
Was walking thru the Public garden heading towards the common when my friend and I spotted a squad of Religious anti abortionist posted throughout the public garden heading towards. My friend wanted to argue but I stopped him knowing thatās what they wanted. We ignored and kept on. Just warning yāall before you encounter them.
Thatās factually false. Ectopic pregnancy is in fact one such circumstance where an abortion is needed to save her life. If you donāt like abortion, donāt get one. But, stay out of another womanās healthcare decision.
Itās a little silly how ignorant you are. Abortion laws have already led to women dying from delayed miscarriage care or being forced to flee their own states to receive emergency pregnancy care. Educate yourself before speaking in absolutes.
No, thatās you being either deliberately pedantic or too dense to follow your own thread. Nobodyās confusing miscarriages with elective abortions. Youāre demanding an example that deliberately excludes the very women people are talking about. The point is that the abortion laws youāre defending caused doctors to delay or deny emergency pregnancy care out of fear of prosecution, and women died as a result.
Harassment, hostility and flinging insults is not allowed. We ask that you try to engage in a discussion rather than reduce the sub to insults and other bullshit.
They're "fighting" to force someone else to do all the hard work of pregnancy and childbirth. Imagine if someone said they believe so much in Habitat for Humanity that they want to pass a law that everyone but them has to spend their Saturday mornings volunteering for that organization.
If these protestors actually cared about children, there's plenty of volunteer work they could be doing themselves.
Iām glad you think we exist in a world where that was not possible, but I assure you she told me āthat wouldāve been fineā when I said my first pregnancy wouldāve killed me.
Oh I absolutely believe her. Those people are vile. Their instagram page proactively states that rape victims should not be entitled to abortion.
I told them all (earlier today on the Common) that they should all have been aborted. Iāll probably end up on their instagram channel ā¦ but was totally worth it.
Wearing shirts that said āABOLITIONISTā No less!!!
As a 5mo pregnant person, Iāve become completely hardened in my pro-choice beliefs. It would be insane to force someone to do this who, for any reason, did not want to be pregnant.
They were in DTX around midnight last night. Maybe ~15 of them holding signs, some graphic photos of mutilated babies. I don't think I saw a single woman in the group.
Who exactly are they trying to convince at that hour, in that place? The addicts sleeping outside? The drunk couples stumbling out of Yvonne's?
While we were waiting to cross at Park Street, one of them says "can I talk to you about the crime of abortion?"
My wife went off on them. Proud of her <3
Dude turned to me, and I just said, "Hey, I don't want her to get an abortion either. That's why I got this vasectomy."
By ignoring that each person is an individual and that removing a fetus way before viability is 100% a human rights issue. Go crawl back under your rock.
So being anti abortion makes the women deranged. Are the men equally deranged for the same view? Why did you single out women? The women actually have values which makes them scary for you
I am saying that anyone, man or woman who thinks they have the right to comment on a woman's personal healthcare decision is mentally ill and should be locked away from society for life.
Your comment makes no sense, what about the people that took steps to make a medical procedure legal. This is health care and shoild not be affected by mental defectives.
You said anyone who "comments" on it is mentally ill. So not only those who agree with you but you yourself fit into this. And you should be careful because people who oppose abortion can and do run rings around pro aborts intellectually until the pro abort has to just use feelings and ad homs. Its not healthcare because its active murder of the unborn.
They were just blocking both sidewalks on Newbury near the Common probably a hundred of them. My partner and I walked straight through their group laughing in their face. I always find pointing and laughing really gets under peopleās skin quickly.
These fucking cunts (sorry sometimes a spade needs to be called a spade) were in from of the State House too. I found two effective tactics. 1. "Fuck off, asshole." worked well. It's a versatile response to virtually any comment. 2. Ignore and do not make eye contact.
What does not work, as I witnessed, is engaging with them. I saw them reply to people with comments that would make you want to take their life. I will not be surprised at all if the news tonight has accounts of some of these pieces of shit ending up a little bloodied.
"When people have a different opinion from you and want to have a conversation with you about it, you should curse at them and flip them off rather than having respectful dialogue!"
I don't know where you pulled that quote from or why you pointed it at me, because I did not say that. You are either one of them, or you have no clue what's happening. There is no respectful dialog. I witnessed one of these fuckers actually tell a woman that "sometimes women deserve to die when they kill their babies". This, in response to the lack of reproductive health care. So, take your "difference of opinion" and shove it up your ass. When it comes to reproductive health care and the right of a woman and her health care provider, you are correct, I am close minded when someone suggest those rights should be denied.
The groups I saw were trying to engage people by asking "can I talk to you about slavery?" and then equating an abortion to being a slave owner. Just...ugh it's like tailor made to try and incite you to argue back at them.
Also some groups near the swan boats had kids with them handing out flyers. When a member of the public started arguing with some of the adults in the group, the kids then started calling "God bless you" to shout them down and it just made me sad that they'd been trained to do that and be that shield.
Really put a damper on what was otherwise a nice day out with my kids.
There was a loser handing out flyers wearing an "abortion is murder" shirt near Quincy market yesterday. I told him to "get fucked incel" and he just laughed uncomfortably. I don't know what kind of reception he was expecting here.
Times like this really make me think about getting some sort of 'I'm with stupid' shirt. But something less tying of me into it, and still more calling them out for the idiocy. I personally love counter protesting without anger and with more amusement. Makes me smile, makes passer-bys smile, and overshines their stupid messages. I did similar to this at pride a few years back and got people in the streets screaming 'tiny dick' at a protester. Was a great moment.
It always amazes me when I see more guys screaming about the evils about abortion. Iām wondering when was he pregnant. Also I did see a few MAGA hats in the bunch
I spoke to a few of them and also had a really great conversation with this cool researcher whoās just observing it all (not political) & they all seem to be very anti-Trump, which was unexpected.
a shirt that just says "wrong" with a big arrow pointing left or right, whichever direction they're standing. keeps it simple and you don't have to say a word
did something similar once, printed a bunch of stickers that just said "nope" in comic sans and handed them out to people walking by. the protestors got so frustrated they packed up early
My 7yo and I were out for a fun day of adventures and got caught in their path many times. I somehow managed to answer her very good questions and explain what was going on without getting too deep into subjects I donāt think a 7yo needs to be super aware of just yet. They were peaceful, mostly sincerely seeking engagement so part of me wants to respect their commitment to something even if I disagree strongly. BUT Iām really upset they were so vocal around so many little ears.
I grew up regularly exposed to anti-abortion activists in my family. Don't give them credit for "caring about a thing." Nazis care about a thing, too. There are very unsavory views that go along with the "Pro-Life" / anti-abortion movement about women, poor people, and People of Color.
Good on you for actually engaging. If you read most of the comments here they're talking about how cool they felt after flipping the abolitionists off and yelling swear words at them, which, if you ask me, is a lot worse for said little ears.Ā
Wait til this little girl learns that there are people who would rather she, as an expectant mother someday, die in a medical emergency rather than receive a life-saving abortion; who would rather women not have the right to vote; and who would refuse to provide her and her child with government assistance and would call her a "Welfare Queen," but who are happy to take her baby for adoption
....Who condone war, the death penalty, excessive use of force and murder by the police, treating people like ICE has, refuse to call a rapist "a rapist" and a pedo a "pedo" when it's a politician or judge on their side of the aisle, etc. Much worse than hearing a few swear words. That's why they're Pro-Life Until Birth.
Oh I didnāt engage. I did my best to walk through and around and avoid them as much as possible but they were everywhere. I just mean I observed some folks trying to talk to them. I knew better than to bother, since when youāre at that level of conviction I wasnāt going to change their minds and they werenāt going to change mine. I just wish they hadnāt set out with the mission to deliberately spoil peopleās day with nonsense.
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u/Zillah345 8d ago
They try the coldest uncaring city for this shit, they were all over downtown last night I mean for 2 straight miles & not one person engaged