"5 Things You Learn Escorting Women Into an Abortion Clinic"

[krispos42]

5 Things You Learn Escorting Women Into an Abortion Clinic
By: Alice Jane Axness | December 06, 2014

Everyone has their Saturday-morning routines -- sleep in, spend time with your loved ones, recover from a hangover, furiously jack off, whatever. I'm not really big on mornings, so I generally skip that whole thing and wake up teenager-in-a-sitcom late.

However, almost every Saturday morning for the last two years, I've hauled my ass out of bed really fucking early so I could be at a local Planned Parenthood at 8:30 a.m. Though a few of the comments on my first Cracked article surmised otherwise, it's not because I'm the mayor of Cock Forest and thus must check in on Foursquare at the closest Planned Parenthood lest I lose my seat as Plan B Incumbent.

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#4. They Are Unspeakably Racist, Though

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It's important to not lose that context while also recognizing the truth in what I'm about to say -- abortion protesters are some racist motherfuckers. When you pretend to have a black child (which two or three of the anti-choice women do) and use that pretend child to guilt-trip black women about making a decision regarding their own bodies, that's racist.

When you learn a few phrases in Spanish so you can terrify Latina women going into the clinic, just to vilify immigrants in the next breath, you're fucking racist. If you capitalize on fears of racial genocide, not because you care about non-white communities but because you want to essentially trick them out of getting a medical procedure, you're fucking racist.

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http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-you-learn-escorting-women-into-abortion-clinic/

#1 is "don't call the cops", which I find both sad and problematic.

[dembotoz]

1. k and r

[NutmegYankee]

2. Done that.

Lost a lot of my faith in humanity doing it too.

[krispos42]

3. Here in Connecticut?

Jeez

[NutmegYankee]

5. No. Virginia.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. A big, fat K&R!

[mountain grammy]

6. I've done it too, in Denver. It's maddening.

[X_Digger]

7. Been there, done that (in Tennessee.) n/t

[secondwind]

8. I was an escort in Boston for several years... Saturday morning 7:30 to 9:45..... I agree 100%

with your comments... they are "spot on"..

[Ilsa]

9. Done it in Texas. They are vicious. They attack men who

are part of the escort protection, too, accusing them of cheating on their wives, etc to try and incite them to violence.

[Heidi]

10. Kick, kick, kick!

[Hekate]

11. KnR. But don't read the comments at the link. nt

[Odin2005]

12. Those idiots were protesting a clinic in Fargo a few years ago.

Ran into them going from the bus station to the library. Yelled some choice words at them.