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Outside the Supreme Court on the day Roe v Wade is overturned, a blue-haired protester is shouting through a megaphone, “I’m atheist and I’m pro-life!” Dressed in a crop top, a bright blue kerchief and a bucket hat decorated with a badge that reads “They/them”, Anastasia Rogers isn’t your average anti-abortion protester.
“For me, it’s just a human rights issue,” says Rogers, who identifies as non-binary. “Like for me, I’m also plant-based. I have a vegan diet, I advocate for animals, and I just feel like every single being has a right to life, no matter how small they are. And if I think it’s wrong to eat eggs because they kill baby chicks... then why would I not think that it’s wrong to kill a baby human?”
Rogers describes themselves as a 29-year-old, San Francisco-based “member of the LGBT community”. Resting from the hot Washington sun under the shade of a tree outside the Supreme Court, they describe how they were on vacation in Florida when they heard the news about Roe v Wade.
“I actually bought a last-minute flight [to DC] as soon as the decision happened,” they say, adding that they wanted “just to come with my friends, celebrate and support”.
“I think a lot of people think pro-lifers are all far-right, conservative old white guys. And, I mean, I have blue hair, I’m pansexual, I’m intersex, I’m non-binary. I have a lot of very left-leaning beliefs and I feel like I’m pro-life for all of life. I feel like in any situation, my views are that everyone should have the right to live, and to pretty much do whatever they want as long as they’re not harming someone else.”
Rogers is far from the only left-leaning protester out to celebrate the ruling that will now take away American women’s constitutional right to abortion care. Jostling alongside the evangelical Christians and the far-right agitators – such as well-known conspiracy theorist Jacob Wohl, who spends his time here shouting at protesting women that they should “go home, back to the kitchen” – is a group of young women from Democrats for Life of America, an anti-abortion group for Democratic voters, whose placards (reading “Pro-life for the whole of life”) are decorated with rainbow flags.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/roe-wade-scotus-protests-abortion-b2109552.html
Rage on, my progressive fellow Soylentils.
EDIT: Most excellent video - the lady nails it perfectly.
https://twitter.com/MechelleChristy/status/1540486945981227009
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2022, @08:49PM (7 children)
Except for the ideologically based homicidal violence being proposed? I bet you thought the Khymer Rouge were a laugh riot, as well! Or, Third Reich? Haha ha haha! Couldn't stop laughing with that Final Solution! You funny, Mr. Runaway!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @12:27AM (2 children)
Meh. Scream at a Restaurant Customer, Punch a Nazi, Hunt a RINO, Burn down a city. It's all on a spectrum, you might as well have a laugh.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @12:43AM (1 child)
Interesting how the literal death threats are always from GOP politicians. BoTh sIdEs trollololol
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @08:55PM
Quite a few people have died from a single punch. Some have died in fires too. So no, two out of four are killer leftists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @02:19AM
Notice that he wasn't the first person through the door even though he knew the house was empty. Can you say Coward?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 28 2022, @07:25PM (2 children)
I remember when running over protesters was "just a joke bro" too!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 29 2022, @02:48AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27UEb-bDfqE [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2022, @05:12AM
Turns out the fascism is in place, they've simply been waiting to gain enough political power to ram through their final solution.