Anti-Choice Resistance Story #1

(Submitted May 4, 2019)

I feel like I should post this here since I’m proud of myself. Earlier last week, I was leaving york campus on a bus and I saw a disgusting “pro-life” committee holding disgusting photos of miscarriages passing off as abortions. The fact that they were doing it smack in the middle of a busy intersection where new students, families etc were coming in woke something up in me. I got off the bus and walked over to the ringleader (unsurprisingly, a man) they were finished for the day but I was just getting started. For what seemed like forty minutes, I argued with him on what he believes he is achieving by showing such pictures and what plans does have to do for : orphanages, the new sex Ed curriculum in Ontario, daycare centres (just want to add that here was a daycare not far from where the protestors were, where parents were signing up their kids for) and if they handed out condoms, advised on birth control, etc. And if he heard about Gerri Or Savita.
These women and many others did not die just to have your mission make their deaths in vein. He kept reiterating that he doesn’t shame these women but he wants to generate a discussion. I said the only discussion there needs to be is between a woman and her doctor. Two other people joined in with me to discuss it, but I had to leave. I was just so tired of seeing s**t like this, but I was glad to be the first one to take a stand.
- Scilla