I have no problem with protesters.  I’m a big believer in civil disobedience, and it’s made heroes out of people like Cesar Chavez, MLK, and Gandhi for me.  I appreciate and respect people taking action to support their stance on whatever the issue.

With that said, I really, really, REALLY get frustrated by abortion protesters.  Not all of them, but yeah, pretty much all of them.  I totally respect their right to protest abortion and be pro-life.  I’m not going to try to change anyone’s mind on abortion, which is just a tough issue to tackle, no matter what your belief is.

However, if I’m taking a little girl to her soccer game and she has to see posterboard-size photographs of dead fetuses, then I have a problem.  That happened back in 2002, and that was really turned me off to pretty much all abortion protesters.  It continued with supposedly “pro-life” terrorists killing doctors and bombing clinics.  That made sense, didn’t it?

But, since then, I’ve been fortunate enough to avoid pushy, annoying, irritating abortion protesters. 

Until today.

There were a few protesters out today, with signs that said “Abortion Kills Children”.  I didn’t have a problem with those signs because at least they didn’t have photos of dead fetuses.  I understand that it’s not what you say, but how you say it that has an effect on people driving or walking by really quickly.  I was fine with their signs.

But it didn’t stop with the signs.

I was coming out of a store and a lady tried to hand me a pamphlet.  I said, “No, thank you.”  She tried to hand it to me again and, again, I said, “No, thank you.”  Seeing that I wasn’t going to take it, she said, “Abortion kills children!” in a real shitty way…like I personally aborted every child since Roe v. Wade (I haven’t).  I had tried to be nice.  I had to tried to be understanding.  I had tried to move on.  But, she wanted a reaction, so she got one.

Her:  “Abortion kills children!”

Me:  “I KNOW.  THAT’S THE POINT!”

She was horrified.  I was satisfied.  The interaction was over.