Is Wednesday "wear a helmet to work day"?

[jmowreader]

Wednesday is January 22, which is to someone who opposes abortion a little like the 4th of July, Christmas, New Year's and Income Tax Day all rolled up into one: it's the day they get to bring out their hats with plastic fetuses on them, their most gruesome signs, and stand in front of the first abortion clinic they can find protesting in support of The Unborn. (You will notice they don't stand in front of the Department of Social Services in support of anyone who's been born.)

This year I think they'll get really violent, so watch yourselves on Wednesday.

[niyad]

1. thank you for reminding me to dig out my stilettos and my largest, heaviest purse.

[murielm99]

2. What am I missing?

Why do they get to do that on that day?

[jmowreader]

3. That's the day the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down

It's tattooed on the inside of every anti-abortion zealot's eyelids, so they don't forget.

[murielm99]

4. I should have remembered.

My parents are rabidly anti-abortion. My dad is gone now, and my mother is too old to go out and wave signs around. They never argued with me or my family, because we would shout them down. They had only lies on their side, like the claim that abortion causes breast cancer.