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meet a pro-life protester

Journal by Runaway1956

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

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @10:54PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @10:54PM (#1256602)

    https://www.npr.org/2022/06/26/1107710215/roe-overturned-mary-miller-historic-victory-for-white-life [npr.org]

    "President Trump, on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday," said Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., as she raised her hands to lead the crowd in Mendon, Ill., in applause.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @11:26PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @11:26PM (#1256603)

    Fake news, you can hear that she misspoke and said "why" not "white".

    It doesn't even make sense as a Freudian slip since black babies are being killed disproportionately by abortions.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @11:45PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @11:45PM (#1256605)

      Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOUruueOeTE [youtube.com].

      She definitely said "white" instead of "why." She looked down at her script after saying it was an historic victory for "white life." If she had misspoke, she had the opportunity to correct it but didn't do so.

      I also notice that my original post was modded down. It looks like someone doesn't want the quiet part said out loud.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @06:44AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 28 2022, @06:44AM (#1256657)

        Maybe it was "why white life?" Which is a serious and unanswerable question. Seriously, why? White's got nothing.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @11:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 27 2022, @11:50PM (#1256606)

    Also from ICFI/SEP/IWA-RFC: As Trump looks on, Illinois Republican hails overturn of Roe as “victory for white life” [wsws.org]