Woman Breaks Up PP Protest by Chanting “Yeast Infections!”

[Clueless Morgan]

Brave Portland Woman Breaks Up Planned Parenthood Protest by Chanting “Yeast Infections!”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/201...tland.html

During her shift at Portland, Oregon’s Purringtons Cat Lounge on Sunday, Mary Numair looked out the street-facing windows and saw a woman carrying a sign that read “Abortion Kills Children.” Numair had noticed a group of protesters about a block away, gathered outside one of Portland’s Planned Parenthood health care centers. “I thought [the woman] might be lost. I said, ‘Hey, you’re gonna feel real silly. The protest is down that way,’ ” Numair, 29, told me. “She said ‘No, I need to stand here.’ I said, ‘Fuck this shit,’ went back inside, and started making my sign.”

The sign, which Numair crafted out of masking tape and a piece of cardboard from the dumpster, praised Planned Parenthood for treating her chronic yeast infections when she was in her early 20s and uninsured. It also included a delightful cartoon of a vagina with a smiling clitoris and a stick figure with pigtails and prominent breasts.

Numair has never seen protestors at this Planned Parenthood location before, but she thinks the recent right-wing hype around fetal tissue donation and congressional hearings might have given anti-choice activists a new lease on life. “The group last night felt that they were on the winning side of a battle for the first time,” she said. “There was this arrogance and sense of victory—they knew that the defunding is very possible and they have Congress at a standstill.”

Kudos to this woman and her dumpster-diving sign I love to hear stories about counter-protesters trolling anti-choicers and I really hope there's someone in the Portland area that can sculpt some giant wooden labia for her

[Esquilax]

Happy as this makes me, it's bittersweet: multiple people came out to protest and support the demonstrable fantasy concocted to get at Planned Parenthood, but only one person came out to support an accurate representation of the facts.

You Yanks, this is how you slowly digest your own culture.

[brewer]

Are you talking about a yeast culture?

[Faith No More]

Happy as this makes me, it's bittersweet: multiple people came out to protest and support the demonstrable fantasy concocted to get at Planned Parenthood, but only one person came out to support an accurate representation of the facts.

You Yanks, this is how you slowly digest your own culture.

We can't help it, Esquilax. Thinking isn't cool, so we avoid it at all costs. You're seeing the inevitable results.

At least you can take comfort that you weren't born and raised here. I just get to bang my head on the wall.

[Faith No More]

Are you talking about a yeast culture?

[Jenny A]

Happy as this makes me, it's bittersweet: multiple people came out to protest and support the demonstrable fantasy concocted to get at Planned Parenthood, but only one person came out to support an accurate representation of the facts.

You Yanks, this is how you slowly digest your own culture.

It is a little bittersweet I guess.  The thing is that it took an organized minority to make the protest.  One women appealing to the majority spontaneously shut it down.  That's the beauty of free speech.

Unfortunately, that's kind of how it works with atheist billboards.  A small group organizers to puts it up.  A larger group takes it down with vandalism.  But unlike the honkers and other supporters, lone women's allies didn't need to break the law.  Sheer moral force shut them down.

Westboro Baptist protests are being routed more and more often by others (often including Christian others).  Makes me smile.

[vorlon13]

[Divinity]

Apparently some of the 'good christian' folks started calling her a 'whore'. What fucking assholes. They're pro-life so long as your a goddamn fetus. As soon as you actually come out of the womb, they don't want anything to fucking do with you. Abortion is a responsible choice no matter what the stupid fuckers think.

[Faith No More]

And they don't care about women having access to prenatal care, either. It like Jon Stewart point out. They don't give a damn about you before you're born or after, but the moment you're crowning, you're the most precious thing in the world.

[vorlon13]

And they don't care about women having access to prenatal care, either.  It like Jon Stewart point out.  They don't give a damn about you before you're born or after, but the moment you're crowning, you're the most precious thing in the world.

I could show them some 'crowning' that would get them clawing their eyeballs out.