| As per usual, the protesters are out picketing the Planned Parenthood in St. Paul. This year, however, someone decided to up the stakes by by driving a car into the door of the building. Luckily, no one was injured, but you begin to wonder what sort of point a person makes when planning protest or violence against a clinic on this day. I can't imagine a woman who would chose to go through with an abortion on the biggest day of anti-choice protesting, so they're only hope is to shame the people coming in for family planning needs into leaving. What do you gain?
Maybe it's the same sort of gain you get when a medical practitioner "accidentally" removes a woman's method of birth control:
Having the IUD come out was a good thing [because] I personally do not like IUDs. I feel they are a type of abortion. I don't know how you feel about abortion, but I am against them. ...What the IUD does is take the fertilized egg and pushes it out of the uterus.
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"Defendant Olona told (the plaintiff) that it was better that she did not have the IUD because she could now use a "non-abortion" form of contraception. Defendant Olona suggested the deprovera (depo) [sic] shot or the pill, and made clear that she would not insert a new IUD."
This is a sort of move that was protected by the conscience clause enacted in the 11th hour of the Bush regime, and has thankfully has been suspended now that President Obama is in office.
But surely, these are minor incidents. A few fringes of the anti-choice movement, right?
Dollars to donuts they're all a little high-strung right now.
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