he he he! You have me giggling in my cube!
I think a nice counterprotest would be to set up with huge pictures of open heart surgery, excised tumors, etc. and big signs saying, “Down with icky medical procedures!” “If it’s gross-looking, it’s grossly immoral!”
It’s not that I don’t understand their outrage about abortion, but I really wish they could see their way clear to make their point without blatantly lowbrow appeals to emotion.
Same goes for animal rights protestors with gross-out pictures of lab animals and meat-packing plants, FWIW.
I suggest getting a few buckets of pig-blood from your local butcher.
What a bunch of fucking tools!!!
I don’t care about what point you are trying to make, but I would get really pissed of when confronted with pictures of dead fetuses.
I like E-sabbath’s idea, too.
NC State?
Is the Brickyard Preacher still there? I remember listening to him one warm spring day (Mmm… Tucker beach), and finally walking up to him and screaming back, Articulation! Articulation! I can’t understand a word you’re saying!" For the first time in recorded history, The Brickyard Preacher was silent.
Get a fucking grip. If they use overblown examples to make their point, so can you.
Oh yeah - I think his name is Gary Birdsong. He alternates between the Brickyard and the little brick courtyard to the right of the bookstore (just in front of the Free Expression Tunnel).
A few semesters back, a bunch of guys pulled up in front of the bookstore in a yellow ~1955 Chevy Bel Air right as the Brickyard Preacher was gaining his peak audience. One guy got out, the rest stayed inside. The guy walked up to the Brickyard Preacher and exclaimed “Man! I feel like PARTYING!!!” As the guys in the Bel Air cranked up their stereo, Party Guy removed his shirt and pants and proceded to perform a sort of hip-thrusting dance in front of the Brickyard Preacher. The Technician ran a picture of it the next day.
We did have a new brickyard preacher for awhile; he spent his time yelling about the evils of homosexuality (in much less polite terms). He was physically attacked by a male student one day, and hasn’t been back since.
I ended up eating lunch over there after all. The truck was gone, and there were a few campus police officers walking around. The posters were surrounded by a rectangular perimeter of metal crowd control rails, so you couldn’t walk up to the posters. The posters alternated; one panel would show an infant who was a victim of war or genocide, and the next panel would show a picture of an aborted baby. I guess they were just protesting dead babies.
There was a slight decrease in the number of people eating lunch outside; only a few of them were eating with their backs to the exhibit. The people at the candidate booths didn’t seem to be bothered by the display; I got some candy from a few of them. One candidate whose platform is “Renew” had a salesman from a local Ford dealer showing of a hybrid Escape.
I’m still wondering why that truck had plastic on the sides.
I drove to the mall one day here in PA, with my two young daughters in the car, and these people were picketing along street in front of the mall! They had those same posters and they were on every corner for the whole “row” of stores (this is an area with multiple malls/strip malls/stores)
This was a MALL. Not a clinic. Not a place having ANYTHING to do with their protest. There wasn’t even a doctor’s office within a mile of where they were (and maybe more, I don’t know) There are all types of people passing who just want to go shopping.
Did my girls really need to see those pictures? Picket someplace else, assholes!
I like this. And not just because I was thinking of something similar. If someone were to be turned off by the graphic, bloody pictures of abortions I do wonder what they would think of any surgical procedure. Cause, you know they all can involve cutting flesh, sawing bones and bleeding etc. Icky stuff exactly.
I can’t think of a more pro-Life-extending activity than to put people off eating those things 
I have an idea. Let’s set up a “Free Speech Zone” for the anti-abortion crowd. We’ll put them a mile away from all the hot spots, such as malls and food courts, so that nobody has to see those gross and ikky pictures. I mean, who do these people think they are? Americans with 1st amendment rights? The nerve!
You should have seen what they served at the Atrium before they opened up the resturants. {{Shudder}} I used to eat there. I’m surprised I mae it out of college alive.
The good part was (NC State being a Land Grant School) fresh Ice Cream.
Would you have been against people shoving their opinions about during the anti-slavery movements? I view those pictures as no different then if someone were to show pictures of slaves beaten or lynched to death. Because many people, and myself, feel just as, if not more so, strongly about abortion. To me it is the killing of utter innocents and we must go to almost any lengths to stop this abhorrent practice.
Many people don’t really feel to strongly about abortion because it is something you never have to see. It is kept behind the white sanatized walls of a doctors office. Posters like that force people to face the ugly truth about abortion, that it is the killing of unborn children.
Well, only, one notes, if the protesters in the matter showed pictures of drowned white people and then harangued about the evils of slavery. Technically, there were white slaves, as I recall, and some of them may have died from drowning.
That’s about the same relationship the ‘dead baby’ pictures have with actual abortions.
“I have an idea. Let’s set up a “Free Speech Zone” for the anti-abortion crowd. We’ll put them a mile away from all the hot spots, such as malls and food courts, so that nobody has to see those gross and ikky pictures. I mean, who do these people think they are? Americans with 1st amendment rights? The nerve!”
I have no problem with people protesting. I have no problem with people speaking their minds and exercising their first amendment rights.
I would, however, suggest that they might want to do their protests where the perpetrators of what ever they are protesting exist.
How about showing pictures of starving children and people who die from lack of health insurance? How about the 20,000 poeple who die every single day from extreme poverty? How about showing the number of people who have slipped into poverty? The number one reason women get abortions is because THEY CAN’T AFFORD TO HAVE THE CHILD.
You know, the “love the fetus, hate the child” syndrome our culture perpetuates. Why don’t we put a stop to that? Get rid of the root problem first. You should be mad at the LAWMAKERS for having people in poverty to begin with.
Maybe they are targeting folks at the college who might be considering abortion??
PinkMarabou, are you sure that’s the number one reason?
Protesting abortion is a tricky one because people tend to have already made up their mind and are on one end or the other. So protests may fall on deaf ears or be preaching to the choir. But if you believe this is legalized murder, it seems reasonable you might feel compelled to speak out.
Here is a wonderful gesture of contempt that I have developed. It is even better if you can get others to do it. As you walk past, toss a quarter at their feet.
From the National Right to Life association.
I agree their message is falling on deaf ears. Yes, I do think making abortions illegal is commiting murder on women. Hence, why my opinions are very clear on this subject. But preaching it to say a church where mostly pro-lifers will be would, IMO, be rude. Much like on college campuses and near food courts. There isn’t much sway on this, there is a very small gray area.
With all due respect, I’d rather your daughters see those pics because the protesters are a mile away from the clinic than having the protesters screaming “don’t kill your baby” at women trying to avail themselves of the clinic’s services (abortion services or otherwise).