What do you think about abortion protesters who protest right in front of abortion clinics?

Question

I just don't like them because the abortion clinic is also where I go to pick up my birth control, so when I go down there they tell me not to kill my baby and stuff. Its real annoying because I'm not even pregnant. Also I don't think they are going to change someones mind. Plus they always have these huge gross pictures of aborted fetuses. I don't want to see that. Does this bother anyone else or do you think they are actually helping their cause? What do you think?

Answer 1

Well, they have a right to protest. Just remember, they're not protesting you they're protesting abortion. But, I don't think they should have the right to hold up signs with pictures of dead babies on it. Those people have no shame, they will show those awful pictures to small children who don't know what's going on or what it means. That's not right.

Answer 2

I think they're insensitive and selfish! I say this because they don't know why a woman is at the abortion clinic to begin with, they don't know that woman's or girl's story...that's just insensitive, as they are not only bashing women but girls too, they don't know if that girl got raped and so happened to be pregnant with the rapists child...they don't think of the damage they cause girls and women in a situation like this, women could probably just ignore such protesters, but not a girl, because she already feel bad about her situation and for such madness to be thrown in her face too is just too much!

Also, women who have been told by doctors that their pregnancy would be an unsuccessful one due to birth defects or something else should have a right to abort.

These protesters also don't take into consideration, that a women's fetus could already be dead...and the reason why the woman would want to abort it is so that she wouldn't be "birthing" a dead baby, which causes much more mental anguish than if she'd aborted it!

I'm all for abortion under certain circumstances, such as the one's I listed above, but to use abortion as a means of birth control...is just wrong!

Great question!

Answer 3

i imagine once the toddlers are previous adequate to have an genuinely opinion themselves and under no circumstances purely mimic their mum and dad' opinion then it is fantastic. My mom worked (volunteered) at abortion clinics, area of human beings forming lines so females may be in a position to correctly get by potential of the anti-abortion protesters. She doesn't let me bypass including her till i became 12 and then I had to sit down down and clarify to her what my opinion became, why I felt that way and what analyze I had finished into each and each and every aspect even as forming my opinion. If a figure cares that a lot, to make positive their baby is actual status up for what the youngster believes in, then i think it is fantastic.

Answer 4

You are correct ~ it is NOT helping their cause. They assume every person going into the building is getting an abortion, when in fact very few are. And I would imagine once someone has made the decision to have a abortion, they're doing it.

Our pediatrician's office is in a large medical complex and one of the buildings has a women's health center. I was driving out after a doctor's appointment and these women and their kids (yes, KIDS) were standing across the street holding huge posters with those disgusting pictures. My five-year-old daughter saw it and she was horrified. So I suppose if their goal is to scare the sh*t out of little kids, it's working. Otherwise, seems pretty pointless.

Answer 5

They don't care. All they want is the illegalization, for lack of a better word, of abortion. As a birth control method, I do not accept it. In many other situations, I think it should be an option. If the woman was a victim of rape, then I won't force them to have the child. If the pregnancy could endanger the woman or the fetus is disrupted in such a way that it could cause severe dysfunction, then I also could condone it. That's what pro-choice is about, making decisions on your own, not just one of death to the fetus. The pro-life lobby believes in forced pregnancy and forced birth, so you have "no-choice".

If you ask me, the protests held by the maniacal, pro-life lobby actually simulate those of those so-hated PETA members.

Answer 6

It does bother me to some extent. Although only on a personal level. I am not really angry about it or anything.

Of course I extend the same courtesy to people who want to have abortions.

I am pro-choice, anti-abortion. Meaning I think it's up to the woman purely on legal grounds.

But according to my principles and moral ideals, I think that having an abortion is a really disturbing and wrong thing to do.

Of course that has a lot of religious sort of ideas into it, so that feeling should not be made law.

Just to reinforce:

I think abortion is pretty much a sick and twisted thing to do
I support keeping it legal.

Answer 7

I can understand your frustration over being seen as a young woman going to get an abortion, while you are just picking up pills. Let me ask you this.....If you are just picking up pills, is there another place you can get the pills, where you don't have to cross the "picket line"? The people outside have no way of knowing what you are there for. They believe they are trying to save a life.

I don't know what side of the issue you sit on, but if you don't approve of abortion, why would you want to pay a provider who will turn around and use the money you give them to further promote abortion. If you favor abortion, and insist on using this clinic for your BC, then unfortunately you will continue to be exposed to the pictures and verbal rhetoric.

I have stood in front of a clinic, and have saved over 30 women from having an abortion. These women do not regret their decision. I helped them with clothing, food, Dr. appointments, housing, etc.. One woman I helped to adopt out her baby.The ones that chose to have the abortion, I offered post abortion counseling and support. One I took to the hospital after the clinic released her, and she started hemorraging and passed out in their parking lot. She ended up having a perforated uterus, and had a hysterectomy two hours later. And to answer the next question that comes up all the time....YES even 4 years later, I'm still helping these women when they need it. Not all of us are "wackos"....try talking to them. Maybe they can show you another location to get your pills where this won't confront you.

Answer 8

When I went to the March for Women's Lives, I was disgusted by some of the signs and things that pro-lifers were shouting at us. I think that everyone has a right to safe, health care that includes the righ to have an abortion. All they are doing is harassing good people in hopes that they'll keep their babies and then after that, nobody cares about them.

Answer 9

I think that protesting in front of clinics may stop one or two people from getting abortions, but I think that in the long run, all it does is make people angry, and hence cement their pro-choice mindset.
Those who really want to stop abortion may want to fix the health care system in America, raise the minimum wage, and implement a vast array of social programs that address the root of the problem, both monetarily and socially, instead of waving signs and chanting.

Answer 10

A friend of mine also had her annual check ups at a Planned Parenthood that would provide abortion services.

One day she was going in for her check up and the protesters started shouting: "Please, don't kill your baby!" "Please!"

So, she turned and looked at them and said:
"You know I wasn't going to until you mentioned it. Now I think I will. Thanks!"

And trotted in with a big smile.

Love that story and I can just imagine the looks on their faces.

If they'd expend a portion of that energy in helping fight poverty or giving their own children honest sex education abortion wouldn't be as big a problem as it is now (since it's the red states that have the most teen pregnancies).