Abortion clinics to pro-choice counter-protesters: Go away
Abortion proponents and news outlets have recently enjoyed publicizing the antics of pro-choice husband and wife “troll” team, Grayson and Tina Haver Currin, who began in March to hold off-putting signs next to those being held by pro-lifers at the A Preferred Women’s Health Center abortion clinic in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The couple’s attempt to make light of murdering babies even made international headlines, like in Denmark…
And they’ve spawned other trolls, like in front of the San Francisco Planned Parenthood…
The only problem is, abortion clinics don’t want them there. These people think they’re cute, but they’re hurting business. Quoting Kelsea McClain, a North Carolina clinic escort, or “deathscort,” as pro-lifers call them, at RH Reality Check:
When clinic patients see a stranger standing in front of their clinic with a poster, they automatically assume, “Oh. That person is here to harass me.” They don’t take the time to read the poster, gather context clues.… So it can appear like a sea of people is there to protest you and your abortion, when in reality it’s a few antis and some awesome supporters.
When we escort, we have on hot pink vests that say “Clinic Escort.” Yet daily we have patients run from us, thinking we are protesters trying to accost them.
More from Britni de la Cretaz of Hollaback! Boston, about a July 25 counter-protest at the Boston Planned Parenthood (photo below, click to enlarge):
[Abortion-minded mothers] just see a hundred people standing at the door.… If one person cancels her appointment because there are too many people standing at the door, are we harming the people we’re trying to help?
Directly in front of the Planned Parenthood. Blocking it even. Perfect.
Another reason why pro-abortion protests don’t help the cause, according to Katie Klabusich at Truthout on September 2:
Recently, untrained groups have been cropping up to “counter-protest” without permission – sometimes even after requests from the clinics that they not do so. Boston’s clinics in particular [see above] have had to deal with unwanted pro-choice activists on the sidewalks attempting to be supportive by bringing signs and yelling.
The intentions of these rogue groups and individuals like Grayson and Tina Haver Currin – who have been photographing themselves with irreverent signs mocking picketers in North Carolina – may be good, but their presence can escalate an already tense situation.
“This can create confusion or more chaos if the counter protesters are not all peaceful,” said Benita U., a clinic escort organizer in Illinois.
In other words, abortion proponents know their own kind and admit they can become hostile, violent even. Which we already knew, and which makes perfect sense since they promote killing babies.
But one positive result of their creating mayhem is again, fewer abortions. Police cars, flashing sirens, and officers milling about don’t exactly make for a good welcoming committee.
I never expected these counter-protests to last. Once the adulation dies down, they’ll skulk away. And abortion supporters aren’t like mailmen anyway. They’re more like the Wicked Witch of the West - they melt at the sight of water in the form of rain or snow.
But as long as it’s sunny and warm and they’re out there, pro-lifers can rest assured they’re helping stop abortions.
[Top three photos via Saturday Chores; bottom photo via Boston Feminists for Liberation on Facebook]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
But… but… We never thought they were helping to promote abortion!
The don’t look passionate, or dedicated, or helpful. They just look stupid.
Ah yes…bearded mountain man knows all about “women’s rights” amirite? He must really think lowly of women if he thinks what we need is not education, or respect or love but dead babies. Thats all I need guys–a good suction currette. Women are being hanged and raped in India? Set on fire for trying to go to school in the middle east? Aborted simply for being female in China and India? All they need is ABORTION and all those silly problems disappear.
Furthermore the abortion-minded mothers entering the building don’t really want to be there. The presence of pro-aborts mixed with pro-lifers only reminds them that what they’re about to do is controversial. These mothers want to get in and out as discreetly as possible. No mother is looking for a high-five from these people.
Their presence is most appreciated because the behavior difference between the two groups is made strikingly clear http://youtu.be/z-qHin45cas
CHRISTIANS: Keep praying against abortion! Keep binding Satan from promoting abortion in the USA!
Jesus said in Luke 18:1 to “never give up praying”, so we keep praying for abortion to die. And not soon enough it will.
Why has the USA become so crazy? We needed a Christian revival in the 1980s, and we still haven’t gotten one. Thankfully, the recipe for revival is 2 Chronicles 7:14:
1) repent of your sins, all of them
2) earnestly pray with faith (not doubting God exists and rewards prayer that expects God to deliver) for other Christians to stop sinning. If I could quit porn by believing and saying Romans 6:2,3,4,18,21, Colossians 2:11, and 2 Corinthians 5:17 whenever I was tempted, then you can also. I haven’t used porn since late 2009. You can too.
3) hold meetings where you invite Christians to pray with faith with you for the USA, our leaders, and for a Christian revival to sweep the USA of sin and hate and disease.
4) tell everyone, “A Christian revival has started, pray for it to grow.”
If we don’t have a Christian revival, God will destroy the USA. Google “Dumitru Duduman” if you don’t believe me.
Here’s what Tina Haver Currin says about how she made their first poster: “We tried to buy poster board at Home Depot, but they don’t carry it. As we were leaving, I ripped a vinyl sale sign off of a display and took a Sharpie to it.”
Well, stealing from Home Depot is not the very worst thing a person can do, but it does seem to get your protest off on the wrong foot, morally. That said, if you’re already ok with breaking commandment 6, then commandment 8 should be no problem.
(That’s Commandments V and VII, for those who went to Catholic schools.)
That guy with the “women’s rights” sign looks creepy as heck. If he were truly concerned about our rights, he would not be advocating for the killing of children. Instead, he would be more concerned about women in the Middle East, who are truly being oppressed.
I also love the fact that these guys have to resort to writing inane slogans on their signs. It beautifully illustrates the fact that so many pro-aborts have no intelligent arguments to defend their position.
In addition, I find it hilarious that these counter-protesters may be scaring off customers. Way to go, guys! Keep up the good work :)
Hi Joshua,
Interesting. Its not like she couldn’t have gone to K-mart, Office Max, Walmart, or a craft store for her poster board, like other people do.
BTW Tina, someone else had to pay for that vinyl sale sign.
I thought abortion was a “serious, complicated decision” for women???
You guys keep laughing about being Pro Dog though. Just another freak show minus the giant vulva costumes.
Fight fire with fire. Stand next to the guy with a sign with an arrow and “THIS GUY IS PRO-CHOICE BECAUSE HE WANTS TO HAVE AS MANY WOMEN AS POSSIBLE.”
Carla, have you ever been to San Francisco? Its one long, continuous freak show. Its fun for awhile, but then it gets tired pretty quick.
Yes, the guy with the beard looks creepy. I don’t know why men think they look good with all that hair on their faces!
I hope no one on the prolife side gets an idea to emulate these freaky pro-abortion protesters. Don’t get a pink “Clinic Escort” vest and attempt an infiltration or anything like that…its just stupid…nothing good will come from it and there will be consequences. We already know everything we need to know just by talking to them like normal people.
Prolifers stand for the truth about a serious problem. Public silliness just blows apart all credibility. They think they are helping their cause by attempting to distract with “Unicorns are Real” and stuff, but is does them no good. Crossing over and doing anything similar would not help our cause for similar reasons.
Life Lesson #35: bogus harassment is generally worse for the harasser.
We ought to respond to their “tactics” with open arms (and a wry smile).
Well, I happen to be pro-life, and pro-dog. My dogs love my baby (especially the food he drops on the floor). Dogs and babies are cute–even cuter together. Just makes me want to watch YouTube videos of babies interacting with dogs, which makes me happy, and makes me even more willing to stand up for babies’ lives.
Also, the pro-life guy probably IS more of a women’s rights expert than most any pro-abortion guy, including beard dude. The pro-life guy is fighting to stop sex selective abortions, which is a violation of the rights of females to live. At LEAST half of babies aborted are female, so abortion is the worst violation of women’s rights in America today. So, thanks furry-faced pro-abortion guy, for pointing out the truth for everyone!!! The pro-lifer IS an expert, whereas you are clearly not.
I’m not sure why pro-aborts think unicorns are real. . .but given their lack of scientific schooling in the area of human development, it doesn’t surprise me. Not one bit.
Still haven’t really resolved the Crystal Pepsi thing, though.
We are actually the 2 churches that the Currins are protesting against at the Raleigh clinic each Saturday. Here’s our website: http://hopebeforethedoor.com.
We would completely agree with the statements made in the article and many of the comments.
What is needed is more churches getting involved in this type of ministry.
We have had the opportunity to go to dinner with Grayson and Tina, to get to know them a little more, as well as exchange emails and have other conversations with these counter-protesters. We have learned a lot.
Depression is the common thread almost all of them battle, with both the women and the men (no wonder when they attempt to deny God, Romans 1). They are a heap of moral contradictions: advocates for the ethical treatment of animals, vegans and vegetarians, yet they see no problem with murdering babies. A startling depiction of what happens when man thinks he is the arbiter of reality.