Anti-Abortion Funnies
Mar. 25th, 2011 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Here's a lighter story to ever-so-slightly contrast the rampaging reduction in Woman's Reproductive Rights that's underway in the United States:
Here in Calgary the Kensington Clinic is beside a playground. That and assorted ordinances means that protesters must stay a certain distance away from the premises and they can't have more then four people protesting at one time. IANAL, so take my description of the legal rules with a grain of salt.
Anyway, there's a nation-wide anti-abortion protest going on right now (coinciding with Lent I think - and isn't sacrificing other people's rights for Lent kind of missing the point) so they've had protesters out in force. Seven protesters (four adults, three children) were out, which violates the rules.
So the clinic manager goes out to tell them to knock it off. The lead protester objects, saying "the children don't count, they're not people".

Anyway, just a story I heard third-hand that made me chuckle.
Here in Calgary the Kensington Clinic is beside a playground. That and assorted ordinances means that protesters must stay a certain distance away from the premises and they can't have more then four people protesting at one time. IANAL, so take my description of the legal rules with a grain of salt.
Anyway, there's a nation-wide anti-abortion protest going on right now (coinciding with Lent I think - and isn't sacrificing other people's rights for Lent kind of missing the point) so they've had protesters out in force. Seven protesters (four adults, three children) were out, which violates the rules.
So the clinic manager goes out to tell them to knock it off. The lead protester objects, saying "the children don't count, they're not people".
Anyway, just a story I heard third-hand that made me chuckle.
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