Anti-choice protesters at a clinic in Louisville, Ky., have taken to wearing vests that mimic the ones worn by clinic escorts:
As if we need further evidence that anti-choicers A) think women are stupid, and B) are clinically incapable of minding their own business...
First of all, do these faux vest-wearers honestly think a patient coming to this clinic will mistake them for an actual clinic escort, become convinced that even the clinic's volunteers have turned against the clinic's mission and just get in the car and drive home? I suppose if you're one of those people who think women don't really understand what abortion is or are capable of making their own reproductive choices, then you'd think this is a viable strategy.
But what really chaps my ass about this is the anti-choicer's (in the video clip) apparent conviction that she knows exactly why the patient is going the clinic. Newsflash: clinics provide many, many services other than surgical abortion. That woman could've been coming in for a pap smear for all we know. But even if she were there for an abortion - as I've said 'til I'm blue in the face, every woman who gets an abortion does so for a different reason. Maybe there's a problem with the fetus, or with the pregnancy. Maybe she got pregnant from a rape, or by an abusive boyfriend or husband. Maybe she can't afford children. Maybe, sh*tbird, she just had a miscarriage, and is at the clinic to get a D&C to remove the dead fetus (just like the ones in the pictures you're waving in front of her face).
I don't know. You don't know. The anti-choicer yammering about what her baby will look like doesn't know. That's my point.
And yes, the assumption that the patient doesn't already have religious beliefs also pisses me off. As a Christian, I'm taught to witness to others with my own behavior - NOT ambushing them and trying to shame them into a relationship with Christ. ARGH.
(via Feministing)
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