From the other side...sort of

I worked for Planned Parenthood for two years as office staff. We cleaned up the glass some mornings when the office windows were shot out. We had bomb threats. We had to literally watch our backs when going home to make certain we weren't followed. The air conditioning system was sabotaged. For some reason some of the protestors thought I was a doctor and I was called a babykiller and when I crossed the street a protester screamed to the passing cars that they should run me over because I killed babies. These were bad things, of course. But one of worst was when they screamed at a couple coming in that they shouldn't do it, they shouldn't murder their baby. It wasn't a choice, it was a baby. Well, it wasn't a choice. Yes, they were there to get an abortion but they desperately didn't want to be there. The pregnancy was ectopic and there would never have been a live baby born and they possibly would never have been able to have children if they had tried to continue the pregnancy. The husband had to be restrained from going after the protesters.

Then of course there were the two teenagers perhaps like yourself in a way but they went over the edge. They had taken the pro-life position in a high school debate and became completely convinced of the rightness of the cause. They then proceeded to fire-bomb a Planned Parenthood clinic that had nothing to do with abortions. The only thing that ever happened at that clinic was pregnancy testing, birth control and health screenings.

Jim S (not verified) | February 15, 2007 - 9:27pm

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