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alp227

(32,047 posts)
Mon Oct 7, 2013, 02:20 AM Oct 2013

Abortion opponents take part in Life Chain demonstration

Source: Omaha World-Herald

Sunday’s chilly, damp weather dragged attendance down slightly at Omaha’s annual Life Chain demonstration.

About 1,000 people dotted Dodge Street between 60th and 90th Streets to witness against abortion, organizer Patrick Eberly said. They held signs with messages such as “Abortion Kills Children,” “Adoption — The Loving Option” and “Abortion Hurts Women.”

The attendance number is a rough estimate, Eberly said, because no one went along the demonstration line to count, as in previous years.

Last year organizers counted about 1,200 people.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20131006/NEWS/131009051



"Life Chains" have also taken place at:
Greensboro, NC
Indianapolis
Huntington, WV
Spartanburg, SC
Quincy, IL
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Abortion opponents take part in Life Chain demonstration (Original Post) alp227 Oct 2013 OP
If they're that fscking upset about fetuses dying, area51 Oct 2013 #1
It's always been more about women having sex without consequences ehrnst Oct 2013 #7
I wonder how many are anti-war sakabatou Oct 2013 #2
Hypocrites all cosmicone Oct 2013 #3
Be careful what you wish for telclaven Oct 2013 #4
war directly or indirectly affects everyone. cosmicone Oct 2013 #5
Really? How has ten years of war affected you? telclaven Oct 2013 #6
I don't think that gives them the right to protest. ehrnst Oct 2013 #8
Don't like abortion? Don't have one. SunSeeker Oct 2013 #9
Chain, chain, chain... KamaAina Oct 2013 #10

area51

(11,918 posts)
1. If they're that fscking upset about fetuses dying,
Mon Oct 7, 2013, 02:36 AM
Oct 2013

maybe they'll wake the fuck up & support single-payer. What good does it do to try to "save" an unwanted fetus, if its parents can't afford health care for it?

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
7. It's always been more about women having sex without consequences
Mon Oct 7, 2013, 10:37 AM
Oct 2013

and people with a hero complex. Women can't be rescued anymore - they don't want or need it.

They have to find another 'victim' that will never have enough of a personality to talk back and disagree - the fetus.

So many will support abortion in the case of rape or incest - which tells you that the Mother's wish to have sex at the time of conception is what makes the fetus a victim.

 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
3. Hypocrites all
Mon Oct 7, 2013, 02:50 AM
Oct 2013

No one should have a right to protest against abortion unless and until

a) they have actually given birth to and helped grow a successful adult

or

b) they have adopted a child themselves

All others should STFU.

 

telclaven

(235 posts)
4. Be careful what you wish for
Mon Oct 7, 2013, 08:34 AM
Oct 2013

What if there were no anti-war protests allowed, except for people that went to war?

 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
5. war directly or indirectly affects everyone.
Mon Oct 7, 2013, 08:36 AM
Oct 2013

Abortion only affects the pregnant woman.

War is a public issue whereas abortion is a personal one.

 

telclaven

(235 posts)
6. Really? How has ten years of war affected you?
Mon Oct 7, 2013, 09:02 AM
Oct 2013

At a personal level, less than .4% of the US public has experienced war. I wonder how that compares to the percentage of folks that have had abortions.

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
8. I don't think that gives them the right to protest.
Mon Oct 7, 2013, 10:40 AM
Oct 2013

I don't care if there is a waiting list for adoptable children - that's still no justification for forced childbearing.

My question of them is: "If someone else wanting that child is reason enough to a woman or girl to give birth, then when will we see PLs volunteering in droves to be surrogates for other people? "

SunSeeker

(51,652 posts)
9. Don't like abortion? Don't have one.
Mon Oct 7, 2013, 02:04 PM
Oct 2013

Leave the rest of us out of your religious sickness. You don't get to tell me what I can do with my own body.

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