What are you doing June 7th?

[triadruid]

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 counterprotest? 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.

Information courtesy of a post in dark_christian.

Comments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

We should be free until 1 p.m. or so. I am extremely down for this.

[kaymyth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I posted a rambly, annoyed entry about this a week or so ago. Their website is packed full of exaggerations and outright lies.

Fate's kind of shot them in the foot this year with June 7 falling on a Saturday. I think the OP clinic is the only Planned Parenthood in the KC area that's open at all on Saturdays.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I think the OP clinic is the only Planned Parenthood in the KC area that's open at all on Saturdays.

Ha! That's extremely clever. :)

[kaymyth.livejournal.com]

I think it's got more to do with the fact that PP doesn't have the resources to keep the clinics open as much as they'd like. I know for a fact that right now, the Independence clinic doesn't have a regular NP on staff, so has a different person there every day to perform exams.

I'm kind of surprised you guys seemed to miss the post I made about this lot. It was only, like, a week-and-a-half ago. :)

I can be the poster child for The Pill Saves Lives. As sucktastic as my colposcopy was (and I'm still a bit sore from the biopsy, damnit), if I weren't on the Pill, I seriously doubt I'd have gotten around to getting my Pap, and thus wouldn't have known I was having cervical issues. Take that, bitches!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

No, I meant it was extremely clever of the ALL to plan to protest a clinic that wasn't even going to be open.

I stopped using PP's services (and upped my donations to them) when they started cutting back hours in this area. I know they don't have the money to keep the kinds of services going that the metro needs.

I'm a different sort of poster boy for The Pill Saves Lives - I believe strongly that if I ever got pregnant, I would shoot myself in the head rather than live through the experience. The horror that the concept holds for me is pretty significant.

And I will admit that I totally missed your post.

[kaymyth.livejournal.com]

Hee. Well, they did manage to find the one that WILL be open. Next year, though, June 7 is on a Sunday. They'll just have to take the year off.

Y'know, pregnancy I think I could survive. It's childbirth that scares the everliving fuck out of me. All during my colposcopy I'm sitting there thinking, well shit, if I'm getting all oogy about someone just poking at my cervix, how the fuck could I survive a tiny human being shoved through it? If I have children, there will be epidurals. Oh, yes.

Here it is, if you're curious (though it's mostly me being somewhat bitchy): http://kaymyth.livejournal.com/261698.html#cutid1

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

I'm in, as long as a)I have a vehicle by then, or b)I can hitch a ride with somebody....

[shahera5.livejournal.com]

June 7th is the Naka-Kon Reunion picnic out at Shawnee Mission Park. As I am one of the organizers and the renter of the shelter, I must be there.