Major Props to NOW

[ceile]

I am so appreciative of this organization and their fight for women everywhere.

"The first Saturday without harassment in 8 years"
By Erin Matson, Action Vice President



"We did it! Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Charlotte NOW, National NOW, the Feminist Majority Foundation and other allies, the Family Reproductive Health clinic in Charlotte, N.C., was free of harassment and terror threats from extreme anti-abortion rights group Operation Save America for the first Saturday in eight years.


Operation Save America (formerly Operation Rescue) staged a national event in Charlotte July 17-24. They boasted of their intentions to target Family Reproductive Health clinic on Saturday, July 24, but when they saw 70 peaceful abortion rights supporters outside the clinic, they packed up their red "murder" bus condemning women's fundamental right to choose, LGBT people, and people living with AIDS and left. That's right -- they packed up and left.

But this fight isn't over.

Frankly, I traveled down to Charlotte on Friday expecting the worst. Our people on the ground were reporting harassment from trees outside the clinic, large-scale demonstrations over highway overpasses during rush hours, and even protests outside a local mosque. And for eight years, leaders of Operation Save America have built scaffolding to rise above the fences protecting the clinic, so that they might scream at women seeking legal and safe abortion care and the doctors and staff who bravely serve them."

The rest here: http://now.org/issues/abortion/charlotte_defense.html

[Deep13]

1. k+r

:kick: :thumbsup:

[uncommon]

2. Ain't no power like the power of the people...

[RT Atlanta]

3. I saw that bus driving through downtown Atlanta

a few weeks back and thought WTF (it was driving in the lane next to me)?!? The bus was on 85 northbound, which would've taken it right into Charlotte. That bus has a lot of graphic abortion-images and hateful statements on it too. So glad they were sent packing by the peaceful, and non-violent, efforts led by NOW.

[Greyhound]

4. K&R

Big K&R!

[xchrom]

5. Recommend

[Merlot]

6. How is it legal that they could build scaffolding?

Seems like their would be a way to get that removed.