Planned Parenthood gripes about S.F. protesters

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Planned Parenthood executives say San Francisco police and the city attorney aren't doing enough to protect patients and staff from "harassment and intimidation" at the organization's health center on Valencia Street.

"Each week, as the harassment and intimidation escalate ... the city's ordinances are violated ever more flagrantly," Planned Parenthood's Bay Area chapter leader, Heather Saunders Estes, wrote in a July 22 letter to City Attorney Dennis Herrera.

And when center staffers call police, they are told that "there is nothing they can do," Saunders Estes wrote.

The latest protest rift was brought on by last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Massachusetts' 35-foot no-protest zone around clinics.

full: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Planned-Parenthood-gripes-about-S-F-protesters-5649309.php

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1. "Gripes"?

I get that's the word in the headline.. But really... gripes? Why not go full out, why not "carps" or "bitches" or "kvetches"? How fucking dismissive towards people facing threat and intimidation for exercising control over their own bodies.