Counter-protesting the March for Life?

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, most of the March for Life "protesters" are just kids and their chaperones bussed in from the various Catholic schools within a few hours' drive of DC. They are handed pre-printed signs, but I think most of them could care less about the "cause." More like organized astroturf than an actual protest. Every now and then you might see some random MAGA pro-lifers among them but otherwise I've always found the March for Life to be pretty pathetic.

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For many years I worked at WHC and took the shuttle bus from Brookland metro to the hospital. There would be busloads of students, priests/nuns and chaperones getting dropped off at the Basilica and they would flood Metro.

Again - I'm pro-choice, but what exactly is the problem here? Pro-choice marches have tons of kids who take the day off from school, come with chaperones, etc. Curious why one is perfectly ok with you while the other is not?

I’ve never had a pro-choice demonstrator shove a picture of a bloody fetus under my nose while I was stopped at a light.

Well of course pro-choice protesters don't show pictures of the aftermath!

Of illegal botched abortions that killed women and girls? No, they tend not to. But maybe they should.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, most of the March for Life "protesters" are just kids and their chaperones bussed in from the various Catholic schools within a few hours' drive of DC. They are handed pre-printed signs, but I think most of them could care less about the "cause." More like organized astroturf than an actual protest. Every now and then you might see some random MAGA pro-lifers among them but otherwise I've always found the March for Life to be pretty pathetic.

Man, people pimp out their kids for these protests?

Yes, a high school friend's kid came here several years back on a bus with other kids from their Catholic high school.

If you have ever seen the marchers, they are mostly high school students with a smattering of nuns and priests among them as chaperones.

I went to a Catholic high school. My children did not. Who in their right minds sends their children on over night trips with priests?

Just stop.

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, most of the March for Life "protesters" are just kids and their chaperones bussed in from the various Catholic schools within a few hours' drive of DC. They are handed pre-printed signs, but I think most of them could care less about the "cause." More like organized astroturf than an actual protest. Every now and then you might see some random MAGA pro-lifers among them but otherwise I've always found the March for Life to be pretty pathetic.

Man, people pimp out their kids for these protests?

Yes, a high school friend's kid came here several years back on a bus with other kids from their Catholic high school.

If you have ever seen the marchers, they are mostly high school students with a smattering of nuns and priests among them as chaperones.

I went to a Catholic high school. My children did not. Who in their right minds sends their children on over night trips with priests?

Just stop.

Huh? I am Catholic as well and send my kid to a DMV Catholic HS. First, there really aren't any priests teaching anymore (nor nuns) other than a couple of figureheads that are involved in administration...so, yeah I would find it really f**king strange for a priest to take my kid/group of kids on an overnight somewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, most of the March for Life "protesters" are just kids and their chaperones bussed in from the various Catholic schools within a few hours' drive of DC. They are handed pre-printed signs, but I think most of them could care less about the "cause." More like organized astroturf than an actual protest. Every now and then you might see some random MAGA pro-lifers among them but otherwise I've always found the March for Life to be pretty pathetic.

Wow, aren't you a charmer. I happen to be pro-choice, but I respect those who aren't. According to you, March for Life participants are frauds. Arrogant, much?

I no longer respect anti choice protestors who want to take away a whole nations right to choose.

Imagine if the rest of us started bussing private secular school kids in to counter protest. There would be much wailing about unfairness.

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, most of the March for Life "protesters" are just kids and their chaperones bussed in from the various Catholic schools within a few hours' drive of DC. They are handed pre-printed signs, but I think most of them could care less about the "cause." More like organized astroturf than an actual protest. Every now and then you might see some random MAGA pro-lifers among them but otherwise I've always found the March for Life to be pretty pathetic.

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For many years I worked at WHC and took the shuttle bus from Brookland metro to the hospital. There would be busloads of students, priests/nuns and chaperones getting dropped off at the Basilica and they would flood Metro.

Again - I'm pro-choice, but what exactly is the problem here? Pro-choice marches have tons of kids who take the day off from school, come with chaperones, etc. Curious why one is perfectly ok with you while the other is not?

I’ve never had a pro-choice demonstrator shove a picture of a bloody fetus under my nose while I was stopped at a light.

Well of course pro-choice protesters don't show pictures of the aftermath!

Pictures of happy and healthy women and families.

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Women with college degrees and the jobs they want and not stuck with an abusive man? Why is the forced birther scared of that? Do they want women uneducated and poor and in abusive relationships? It seems they do.

For anyone who hasn’t heard of the Turnaway Study, women who wanted abortions were followed after they got or didn’t get an abortion. Those who wanted an abortion but weren’t able to get one had much worse lives. They ended up poorer, more likely to be in a violent relationship, more likely to be a single parent and less healthy. https://www.ansirh.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/the_harms_of_denying_a_woman_a_wanted_abortion_4-16-2020.pdf

Once again, those forced birthers who seek to force all women to live their weirdly strictured lives are bad people. Let’s just lay out the facts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On the one side, people protesting abortion rights while withholding food aid to poor children. These people think that if a girl or woman gets raped and becomes pregnant, that the girl or woman should spend 9 months pregnant with the rapist’s child. Then at birth, in some states, the rapist has parental rights.

Best case scenario is the baby is adopted (if father’s parental rights do not prevent the adoption) and one day, the now teenager discovers his father was a rapist. Let’s have a generation of rapist’s babies!

Or maybe you have a two parent family with, say, three kids. The woman becomes pregnant unintentionally, or she is pregnant and the man loses his job/ becomes disabled in an accident/ the woman is diagnosed with cancer. The most important thing is this scenario is obviously the embryo/ fetus. Let’s decide for the parents where their money, energy, and priorities lay. It’s crucial the woman gives birth.

If you have a business and someone comes to the door and says, give me a job. The business can say, Sorry. I don’t have the resources to take care of you. But a pregnant woman needs to say yes, yes, yes, yes.

And on the other hand is the concept that the pregnant woman should get to decide what is best for her. Revolutionary.

I’ve deliberately said pregnant girl/woman instead of pregnant person because I’m fine with pregnant person but I think most pregnant people are girls or women. That whole pregnant person thing is not of major interest to me. Abortion rights, that’s my #1 issue.

+1000. Abortion rights are also my #1 issue.

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I also agree with the person who said it's mostly Catholic School kids bussed in by their schools. Most don't care. Or have enough life experience to actually care. A bunch of virginal teenagers, who've never had to face any real reproductive choices in their life (much less an unplanned preganancy), and they think they are equipped to tell someone else what to do in that regard. It's shameful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, most of the March for Life "protesters" are just kids and their chaperones bussed in from the various Catholic schools within a few hours' drive of DC. They are handed pre-printed signs, but I think most of them could care less about the "cause." More like organized astroturf than an actual protest. Every now and then you might see some random MAGA pro-lifers among them but otherwise I've always found the March for Life to be pretty pathetic.

Wow, aren't you a charmer. I happen to be pro-choice, but I respect those who aren't. According to you, March for Life participants are frauds. Arrogant, much?

I don't know about frauds but I have zero respect for them. They want to deny me and my daughter over bodily autonomy. I'll never respect that.

And I agree, you are arrogant.

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, most of the March for Life "protesters" are just kids and their chaperones bussed in from the various Catholic schools within a few hours' drive of DC. They are handed pre-printed signs, but I think most of them could care less about the "cause." More like organized astroturf than an actual protest. Every now and then you might see some random MAGA pro-lifers among them but otherwise I've always found the March for Life to be pretty pathetic.

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For many years I worked at WHC and took the shuttle bus from Brookland metro to the hospital. There would be busloads of students, priests/nuns and chaperones getting dropped off at the Basilica and they would flood Metro.

Again - I'm pro-choice, but what exactly is the problem here? Pro-choice no marches have tons of kids who take the day off from school, come with chaperones, etc. Curious why one is perfectly ok with you while the other is not?

Because they don't like other Americans with a different view, we have to meet in the middle somewhere.

Yes, we must split the baby . . . Oh wait.

[Anonymous]

I went to Catholic middle school in New York and my mom always opted me out of the school trips. She considered it foolish.

All I recall is half the kids will end up sick the next week from the cold. It’s a pointless trip. Most of the kids just go because it’s a way to go to DC and get out of class

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On the one side, people protesting abortion rights while withholding food aid to poor children. These people think that if a girl or woman gets raped and becomes pregnant, that the girl or woman should spend 9 months pregnant with the rapist’s child. Then at birth, in some states, the rapist has parental rights.

Best case scenario is the baby is adopted (if father’s parental rights do not prevent the adoption) and one day, the now teenager discovers his father was a rapist. Let’s have a generation of rapist’s babies!

Or maybe you have a two parent family with, say, three kids. The woman becomes pregnant unintentionally, or she is pregnant and the man loses his job/ becomes disabled in an accident/ the woman is diagnosed with cancer. The most important thing is this scenario is obviously the embryo/ fetus. Let’s decide for the parents where their money, energy, and priorities lay. It’s crucial the woman gives birth.

If you have a business and someone comes to the door and says, give me a job. The business can say, Sorry. I don’t have the resources to take care of you. But a pregnant woman needs to say yes, yes, yes, yes.

And on the other hand is the concept that the pregnant woman should get to decide what is best for her. Revolutionary.

I’ve deliberately said pregnant girl/woman instead of pregnant person because I’m fine with pregnant person but I think most pregnant people are girls or women. That whole pregnant person thing is not of major interest to me. Abortion rights, that’s my #1 issue.

+1000. Abortion rights are also my #1 issue.

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I also agree with the person who said it's mostly Catholic School kids bussed in by their schools. Most don't care. Or have enough life experience to actually care. A bunch of virginal teenagers, who've never had to face any real reproductive choices in their life (much less an unplanned preganancy), and they think they are equipped to tell someone else what to do in that regard. It's shameful.

Right, they're fed a bunch of lies about contraceptives and life. They’re really the only ones who would do it. March of the Naive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my experience, most of the March for Life "protesters" are just kids and their chaperones bussed in from the various Catholic schools within a few hours' drive of DC. They are handed pre-printed signs, but I think most of them could care less about the "cause." More like organized astroturf than an actual protest. Every now and then you might see some random MAGA pro-lifers among them but otherwise I've always found the March for Life to be pretty pathetic.

Man, people pimp out their kids for these protests?

Yes, a high school friend's kid came here several years back on a bus with other kids from their Catholic high school.

If you have ever seen the marchers, they are mostly high school students with a smattering of nuns and priests among them as chaperones.

I went to a Catholic high school. My children did not. Who in their right minds sends their children on over night trips with priests?

Just stop.

Agree, not cool.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, most of the March for Life "protesters" are just kids and their chaperones bussed in from the various Catholic schools within a few hours' drive of DC. They are handed pre-printed signs, but I think most of them could care less about the "cause." More like organized astroturf than an actual protest. Every now and then you might see some random MAGA pro-lifers among them but otherwise I've always found the March for Life to be pretty pathetic.

+1
For many years I worked at WHC and took the shuttle bus from Brookland metro to the hospital. There would be busloads of students, priests/nuns and chaperones getting dropped off at the Basilica and they would flood Metro.

Again - I'm pro-choice, but what exactly is the problem here? Pro-choice no marches have tons of kids who take the day off from school, come with chaperones, etc. Curious why one is perfectly ok with you while the other is not?

Because they don't like other Americans with a different view, we have to meet in the middle somewhere.

Yes, we must split the baby . . . Oh wait.

Huh? Wha....?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, most of the March for Life "protesters" are just kids and their chaperones bussed in from the various Catholic schools within a few hours' drive of DC. They are handed pre-printed signs, but I think most of them could care less about the "cause." More like organized astroturf than an actual protest. Every now and then you might see some random MAGA pro-lifers among them but otherwise I've always found the March for Life to be pretty pathetic.

Wow, aren't you a charmer. I happen to be pro-choice, but I respect those who aren't. According to you, March for Life participants are frauds. Arrogant, much?

Dp- what the hell is your problem? If you live in DC you’ve seen the protest. It’s very obvious who attends and why.

What the hell is YOUR problem? Everything in the PP is correct. Kids, classes, families, chaperones - all attend both marches. One doesn't somehow get high marks for participation while the other one doesn't. Get a grip - people are allowed to have a difference of opinion.

This is just one (of many) problems with Democrats. You are completely convinced that you are always right and everyone else is always wrong - incredible arrogance. Newsflash: pro-life protesters have just as much right to march as pro-choice protesters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, most of the March for Life "protesters" are just kids and their chaperones bussed in from the various Catholic schools within a few hours' drive of DC. They are handed pre-printed signs, but I think most of them could care less about the "cause." More like organized astroturf than an actual protest. Every now and then you might see some random MAGA pro-lifers among them but otherwise I've always found the March for Life to be pretty pathetic.

Wow, aren't you a charmer. I happen to be pro-choice, but I respect those who aren't. According to you, March for Life participants are frauds. Arrogant, much?

Not at all "arrogant," that's entirely your own take. Whether you like hearing it or not, my comments are accurate, based on years of living in DC and walking on the mall daily and seeing the March for Life participants up close and chatting with them many times over those many years.

And so tell us, how are the demographics and make up of pro-choice protesters different than pro-life protesters? I guess we should be calling pro-choice marches astroturfed as well.

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, most of the March for Life "protesters" are just kids and their chaperones bussed in from the various Catholic schools within a few hours' drive of DC. They are handed pre-printed signs, but I think most of them could care less about the "cause." More like organized astroturf than an actual protest. Every now and then you might see some random MAGA pro-lifers among them but otherwise I've always found the March for Life to be pretty pathetic.

Wow, aren't you a charmer. I happen to be pro-choice, but I respect those who aren't. According to you, March for Life participants are frauds. Arrogant, much?

I no longer respect anti choice protestors who want to take away a whole nations right to choose.

Imagine if the rest of us started bussing private secular school kids in to counter protest. There would be much wailing about unfairness.

What are you babbling about? Pro-choice protesters are made up of school groups as well. Such an idiotic "argument."