Some snapshots. Enjoy.
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- Pro-sun? or Anti-cloud?
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- Pro-life and Canadian
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- CBC was there
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- Dalmatians for the ethical treatment of people
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- Cool kids convening
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- Teresa Pierre, Parents as First Educators
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- The counter-protest
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- Kady O’Malley, reporting live
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- Sad sign, with a woman plaintively calling out “Choice”
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- Girls against abortion
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- Costumes!
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- Smokers for life
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- The Hill
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- More protestors
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- And more protestors
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- “Dogs for Life” the umbrella group for “Dalmatians for the ethical treatment of people”
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- Ottawa polizei
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- Your friendly PWPL photographer
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What does the small whit protest sign say?
What does the small *white* protest sign say?
Monika, I’m sorry. I don’t know what the small white sign says. The one I found sad was the other, readable one.
the small white sign says “Guaranteed! You will someday be SO grateful that you live in a Pro CHOICE country”
and here is the sign that should have been there: “A woman’s right to bodily autonomy outweighs fetal pain because we live in a society that does not force people to use their bodies to support others — not their organs, not their bone marrow, not their blood, not their skin. We do not force people to sacrifice parts of their bodies to save others not because we don’t care about a patient’s pain, but because we recognize that bodily autonomy is an essential part of a functioning free society. To suggest that we ignore that and make an exception when it comes to forcing pregnant women carry a pregnancy to term suggests that we force pregnant women to submit to a violation of their rights that we impose on no one else.”
Yes, Amy, but we also live in a society where we are expected to look out for one another, especially for those who cannot speak for themselves. Who are more voiceless or helpless than the children in utero?
We also live in a society where adults are expected to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. Everybody knows that sex (even sex that is supposedly sterile) can lead to conception. No one is forced to carry a baby. But is it really fair to expect a doctor to perform a feticide (and taxpayers to pay for it!) when a couple who are unwilling to bear the consequences engage in sexual relations?
Again, no one is forcing anyone to carry a baby to term. No one is restraining a pregnant woman and saying “thou shalt bear this baby!” What we ARE saying is that killing is wrong, and shouldn’t be done in our government-funded clinics and hospitals.
Children are not a consequence to punish people who have sex. Abortions are performed well before the fetus is capable of surviving out the womb- of course they cannot speak for themselves, they dont get brain and nerve activity until week 24-28. Less than 2 percent of abortions happen after that- and they are all performed because of health issues with the woman or fetus- so it would probably be wanted, and an unfortunate situation for everyone. Since most are performed before week 21, the fetus does not feel pain and is not aware of itself. It does not think or dream. Do some research. Taxpayer money funds a lot of things I disagree with lately, but its all for the greater good of existing persons. Abortion should always be legal (it has been around since very early times- the romans made a certain abortificant plant go extinct due to their overuse of it. ) Women have always wanted to control their reproductive health- if abortion is illegal women will go to great lengths to get one anyway, sometimes getting themselves killed in the process. The day abortion became legal again, the deaths of women stopped OVERNIGHT. that should tell you something. Just like driving a car isnt consent to crash or eating at a restaurant is not consent to food poisoning, shit happens anyway- and people deserve access to medical care if they desire it. Women will never go back to a time when the only choice was a coathanger in a butchers van. It is appalling that you would want to drive women to such lengths. Nobody is a fan of abortion but making it illegal is not the answer. If you become an activist instead for womens rights, and improving family life and tax benefits for pregnant women, better work laws and pay stuff- abortion wont be necessary since theyd have support! This isnt always the case, but it could be the difference needed. Women have a hard enough time making difficult decisions like this- to shame them for their choice when you have no understanding of why they chose it shows a lack of empathy bordering on psychopathy.
Everything about the prolife stance is wrong- there is no concern for existing people in a predicament- just shaming and misinformation to scare others into making a choice that only you believe in. Your mindset is personally responsible for killing millions of women all over the world. Women who actually do feel pain upon death and who are sentient with dreams and hopes for a future. The fact that you would rather let these women die in back alley abortions than save their life by letting them control when they become a mother shows your true stance- anti-choice, anti-woman, but profetus (until its born. And then it becomes an incubator with no rights.) I urge you all to do research and find out who the prolife movement helps- the answer isn’t women who have their lives disrupted by pregnancy and children, its religious dumbasses that think they get heaven points for destroying womens lives.
Until men can carry babies that will suck the life out of them, they get no say. Forcing a woman to stay pregnant against her will is slavery- hard for for free, against your will. The prolife mindset is backwards. For the lovr of humanity! Do some research from unbiased sources (lifenews is just more lies and misinformation). Do research. Recent, scientific unreligiously affiliated research. Please.
Amy, some of those statements were highly intolerant. “Religious dumbasses”? As someone who fights for personal freedoms, don’t you believe we should respect the spiritual choices of other human beings? Do you truly believe every religious person is unintelligent, and/or that every pro-life person is religious? It saddens me that humans are still so far from being able to have civil and respectful discussions about important issues like abortion, but as long as people enter the discussion with the mindset, “Everything about the prolife stance is wrong,” there is no possible way to make any positive progress. We’re all humans, and both pro-life individuals and pro-choice individuals are (for the most part, I hope) motivated by compassion. Both sides have the same motivation! I think we need to start with what we have in common and take a more loving approach instead of hurling insults at other thinking, breathing, compassionate people.