Passing the Word: What are you doing June 7?

[featherynscale]

From triadruid's journal, re-posted here for your righteous fury and motivational pleasure. :)

June 7th, 2008 marks the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut. The American Life League/STOPP International is planning "Protest the Pill Day '08" as a response, mostly centered around Planned Parenthood clinics that provide the pill (I guess organizing enough people to block all the CVS/Osco/whatever would have been too tough).

Anybody feel like mounting a counter-protest? The only nearby clinic that has a registered protest so far is the Overland Park location (supposedly starting at 6:45AM), but keep an eye on Missouri or whatever state you happen to live in, if you're reading from farther afield. Look for the locations with a black dot in the map marker.

For the record, I'm way more pissed about these assholes than I am about the Scientologists. The Scientologists, yes, creepy and weird, and they seem to like to off their own people, but they also seem to be sort of... contained. These assholes want to force everybody with a uterus into a life of slavery, making billions of intelligent human beings into nothing more than incubators with legs. I hate that.

So, come along to support the right of women to have real lives as human beings while still enjoying sex (wait. Isn't that part of having a real life as a human being?), come along to screw with some extremely fucked-up and dangerous people, or come along to help keep me from getting into fistfights. It's all good.

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[kaymyth.livejournal.com]

or come along to help keep me from getting into fistfights.

Well, if it means keeping you from beating the crap out of stupid people, I guess that's incentive enough to drag myself out of bed way before the asscrack of dawn.

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I think I will pass for the same reason I avoid some mailing lists... I wouldn't be any good at keeping you from fistfights, I would probably unwittingly (or wittingly) encourage such acts of social smack-down. 8-)

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

So, come along to support the right of women to have real lives as human beings while still enjoying sex (wait. Isn't that part of having a real life as a human being?), come along to screw with some extremely fucked-up and dangerous people, or come along to help keep me from getting into fistfights. It's all good.

See, I have two problems with this paragraph that spring to mind immediately.

1) "Isn't that part of having a real life as a human being?" -- either that implies I'm not human, or I don't have a real life ... er, wait a minute, maybe I agree with that statement after all.

2) "come along to help keep me from getting into fistfights" -- not sure I can help there, I seem to be the person most prone to initiate such action.

Although, that still leaves as a perfectly valid, no-problems-here, reason: "come along to screw with some extremely fucked-up and dangerous people"

I'll have to see what I'm doing June 7th, but this seems like a Very Good Idea™

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Well, come along and back me up in a fistfight, then.

Also, wouldn't you enjoy sex if you were having any? Don't you think you ought to get to?

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

Actually, no, I'm not sure I'd enjoy sex if I were getting any. The last few times was either a little terrifying or was pretty disappointing. Hope that isn't TMI.

As for the 7th, I'm in a wedding that day. Can't believe that slipped my mind. I'm, like, in the ceremony and everything (ha, me, giving the "intentions" in a Catholic service - if there is a god, he has a sense of the ironic).

Give them hell (*snort*), but sadly, I won't be there to back you up.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

All righty then. Assertion rescinded in your particular case. :)

(I vaguely want to ask about 'terrifying', though.)

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

Um ... not in a public forum :-)

Wow, my shyness is showing.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

Hummmm... I have concern that they may try to protest at local public health clinics as they too, give out *THE PILL*.

I hope not.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That would be pretty exciting. I'd like to see that, actually.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

We have had protesters in the past. Mostly because they think we are doing abortions. We do not. At. All.

I think I'll just tell them (if their there) that I work at the nursing home (that's in our same building).

hehehehehehe

[royal-spice.livejournal.com]

I forget sometimes that *seeing red* is not just a cliche...

Yep, make a reminder post closer to the day. If I can escape, I'll come with.