Abortion Protesters

Monday March 26, In the year of our Lord 2012
My House, Caronport Saskatchewan
Waiting for Supper to cook, 5:40 PM
Weather = Cool


I had the pleasure of taking my beautiful fiance out on a date today. It was only to the doctor's office, but I consider it a date. Any time I get to go somewhere with someone so beautiful that I love so much should be considered a date!

As we drove to the clinic we saw a small group of protesters with signs. "Abortion harms Women" and "Pray to End Abortion" were their two flavors. I dropped my love off at the clinic and then found a place to park a block away. I decided to talk to one of the protesters on my way back to the clinic to maybe learning something and this is how it went.

I walked up to one of the women on the street corner and wished her a pleasant day.

She did the same.

I told her that I had noticed their signs (she was holding a 'Pray to End Abortion' sign).

She said something in thick Christianese that I can't quite remember.

I asked her if it was the women or the unborn life that they were trying to protect.

She said both.

I said that her signs were confusing then, because they only represented half of the issue and that I had originally thought they were trying to ban women from making a choice to hurt themselves.

She said that they needed to stop abortion because there was life at cell division and that she wrote a real good, real technical like letter explaining this to the MLA and it was going to change the law.

I was confused because this had nothing to do with making a law to ban women from hurting themselves. I asked how abortion harms women.

She said that it was terrible! She had a friend who had an abortion at 9 months and they took pieces of the baby out of her and just wrapped them up in a garbage bag and that was it! She then went on to explain how this was murder and criminals are protected better than law abiding citizens which went into a story about how another friend has called the cops on their neighbors for partying but they can't do anything because they have their rights. And she concluded that the old law (about women and abortion) was better but never bothered to tell me what the law was.

Needless to say I was confused and beginning to feel a bit awkward. She had not answered a single question and had not explained what exactly she was protesting about even though I gave her every opportunity. I wished her a good afternoon and crossed the street to the clinic.

Maybe I was lucky and picked the one person in that group who had no communication skills. I sincerely hope that abortion protests aren't all so vague. It kind of bothers me that this person was so passionate and yet so confused and disorganized. Why should anyone take a protest seriously if the people protesting can't define what they are protesting or why they are protesting it?

I'm actually authentically disappointed. I am partial to the 'stop abortion' cause and my experience here takes them down a peg.