The pro-forced childbirth zealots

[drmeow]

are on campus today with their 2 story display the size of a small city block. They have a small paper board "free speech zone" next to them. I wrote LIARS --> in big letters on it with the arrow pointed at them and chanted "liar, liar, pants on fire" as I walked by (at least one of them heard me). Childish, perhaps, and not what I'd really like to do but it did make me feel a little better.

[tallahasseedem]

1. I remember when they did this...

on my college campus. It was truly, truly disgusting.

[drmeow]

5. They do it here

every year. Last year it was on the lawn area right outside my building which REALLY had me steam. This year it is across from the student union.

I'd like to see the pro-choice movement put together a similar display with graphic depictions of women who died from unsafe, illegal abortions, victims of incest who were forced to have their child (and victims of parental abuse when parents found out the child was pregnant ... not limited to victims of incest), abused children born to parents who were denied abortions, malnutrition and signs of starvation in children whose parents couldn't afford and didn't want another child but couldn't get an abortion, and health damage to women who needed a D & C that had nothing to do with pregnancy but couldn't get one cause no one has the training in their area anymore.

The only reason that opinions about abortion have shifted at all is because these zealots lie ... pro-choice activists wouldn't even have to lie to sway people back the other way.

[LeftyMom]

2. They're on DU today too.

:grr:

[gratuitous]

3. Good for you

Yeah, maybe it's childish, but it's something (far better than nothing). I'd bet a nickel none of them will try to engage in any substantive discussion, because they're there for themselves and not for any larger concern. As someone once said, they have their reward.

[lapislzi]

4. I know I shouldn't, but sometimes I engage them.

I tell them about my abortion, about how I don't regret it, and I'm not sorry, and I sleep very well at night, thank you very much.

Some actually contradict me: "no, you really do regret it, deep down inside, you're just lying to yourself." Then they offer to pray for me. I thank them for their concern and tell them I'm an atheist. Then I step back in case one of their heads explodes.

[drmeow]

6. What I wanted to do

was to ask them is they really believed that Jesus would forgive them for their lies and did they know that Hitler was also anti-abortion?