Reproductive Health Care Provider Uses Stork Costume To Prank Anti-Contraception Protesters (PHOTOS)

[proud2BlibKansan]

A reproductive health care provider in central Wisconsin was surprisingly prepared Wednesday to be picketed by anti-contraception group 40 Days For Life.

Tiffany Bredeck, a board member of Family Planning Health Services (FPHS) in Wausau, Wis., dressed up in a stork costume, whipped out a clever sign and stood on the sidewalk outside the FPHS headquarters alongside the protesters.

The Executive Director of FPHS, Lon Newman, told The Huffington Post over the phone that 40 Days For Life has long had simple messages that are easy for many people to relate to, and that the stork idea made for a "friendly, easy-to-grasp message" for the pro-choice side.

FPHS is a non-profit organization that provides basic reproductive health care services in seven counties in Wisconsin. It does not provide abortion services, sterilizations or medical pre-natal care.

more ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/anti-contraception-stork-protesters_n_2934735.html#slide=126221

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[kdmorris]

1. What a GREAT idea!!! n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

2. FPHS Does Not Provide Abortion Services - They Prevent Abortions, Yet Protesters Scare People Away!

It's amazing how ignorant some people are.

Without proper family planning, people are forced into unwanted pregnancies which might lead to an abortion.

Those same people also complain about the high cost of food, high cost of school taxes and support services.

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Yet, what do they want to do?

Introduce more people to feed increasing food shortages and costs, more school taxes (about $230K until graduation per child), more people who cannot achieve a stable household because they need to care for an unplanned child, more costs for tracking down and managing child support for dead beat parents, more school lunch, medical, food and housing costs for low-income people, etc...

[Sheepshank]

3. Which makes it very clear to me

It's not about abortion at all. If it were, access to contraception would be a no brainer.

It's about being very afraid of sexuality...and trying to control that aspect of humanity.

[AndyTiedye]

6. They're Going After Birth Control Now

They expect Roe v. Wade to be overturned by the Opus Dea majority on the USSC this year,
so they are starting to work on getting birth control banned too.

[midnight]

4. Thank you Tiffany for bringing attention to this matter that should be between a women

and her doctor... We don't have to agree on this issue, but we do need to let women and their doctors decide the best way to address this issue... And this issue is not open to public interpretation....

[love_katz]

5. K&R

Great and creative way to get the message across.

Kudos!

[GeoWilliam750]

7. "Pro-lifers"

Are anything but pro-life.

They are everything about "pro-telling somebody else what to do"

All about authority without responsibility.

Always about negative power, and almost never about actually making people's lives better.

One wonders their having so little power over their own lives makes them feel a need to exert - usually negative - power over others.