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I'm a Planned Parenthood Volunteer!
I applied online, I attended orientation, and I have an interview with them next week. They have to screen people because so many fundie terrorists will try to infiltrate.
Here in the Houston area, the Forty Days of Harassment are about to start. This plague is an event in which the fundie terrorists will camp out around the clinics for forty days. Volunteers will safely escort the clients in and out. God, it's going to be hard to keep my mouth shut and even harder to resist the temptation to buy an Uzi.
I can't wait to start! PP has done so much for me, and I love their cause! I'm now seriously considering women's health as a career.
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the 40 days of harrassment?!?thats terrible!Is that something that happens annually or something?
I feel so horrible for girls that have to have an abortion and then deal with protestors telling them they're going to hell. Its a pretty emotional thing to go through...thats so shitty.
but thats an awesome thing that youre doing! I'd def. have to resist the urge to buy an Uzi also.
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I was psyched to find out that eventually, I'll be able to teach sex ed. You have to volunteer for months before you can speak at those events, and years before you can be a hand-holder for women getting abortions.
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Congrats! It's a great thing you're doing.
I volunteered at an abortion clinic as a decoy, walking through the protestors to the front door so they'd scream at me, while the actual person getting the abortion would go through the back sneakily.
It took a lot of patience. Some of the things people said to me, I just wanted to hit them.
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I'm going to get my boyfriend to drop me off, as you can't be too cautious. I wouldn't want them getting my license plate number and tracking me down.
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That's definitely a very good idea. And since you're being an escort, be very careful. Some of these protestors take things way too far, throwing things and such.
But again, thank you so much for doing this.
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Wonderful what you're doing. I've read some not so nice stories about how girls were treated by PP people. Looks like they're going to add a nice one to the bunch.
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kandie_kitten
Congrats! It's a great thing you're doing.
I volunteered at an abortion clinic as a decoy, walking through the protestors to the front door so they'd scream at me, while the actual person getting the abortion would go through the back sneakily.
It took a lot of patience. Some of the things people said to me, I just wanted to hit them.
A lot of patience..and a very thick skin. I admire you for being able to do that....but what a wonderful thing you did, I'm sure many girls appriciated it.
Just as Hatshepsut.....many, many girls will appriciate what your doing.
PP was the best gyn care I ever had. Shame in Nevada, PP sucks ass, or I would go to them over a regular gyn anyday. Even paying full price, it still e more affordable to.
Through PP, I got surgery for cervical dysplasia completly free, with a good doctor even. Plus all the years of free birth control and yearly paps....PP is a wonderful thing. I fully plan to donate to them on a regular basis, give back a little of what I took all thoes years. I went to them from 14-21 years old.
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I started today. It was pretty tame, because the harassers were moms with kids, and the kids kept them occupied.
Good lord, those people are resourceful and ruthless. They recruited a bunch of homeless people to their cause by giving them food, shelter, etc. In return, the homeless people will give some spectacular performances. I didn't know that it was possible for human voices to hold for that long at such a high volume. Gah.
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You're totally my hero, H. I was at one point one of those children dragged to the protests with their mother. Why parents want their kids to see them carrying disgusting posters and yelling at people I'll never know. Be careful and keep up the good work. :thanx:
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^Yeah, some of the other volunteers told me of their childhood times when their fundie parents filled their pliable heads with propaganda (Dead babies are MURDER!). It drives me nuts that they are willing to stoop using human shields.
Can I PLEASE have an Uzi? An M-16?
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Hatshepsut
^Yeah, some of the other volunteers told me of their childhood times when their fundie parents filled their pliable heads with propaganda (Dead babies are MURDER!). It drives me nuts that they are willing to stoop using human shields.
Can I PLEASE have an Uzi? An M-16?
Yep, I was told that 'those people' hated babies. Really messed up stuff. I figure one day I'll get a good book out of it all.
I wish you could have an Uzi! I opted to go to a different, slightly more expensive (but still awesome) women's clinic for my appointment because I knew how the local PP was, protester-wise. It was just too scary for me when I was a younger woman. Which, I suppose, is their point.
You are doing some awesome stuff girl! :hug:
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Congrats ! We need more people like you..Please be careful though, some of these right to lifers will stop at nothing to get their point across.
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Congrats ! We need more people like you..Please be careful though, some of these right to lifers will stop at nothing to get their point across.
Tell me about it.The entrance is not only electronically locked unless released, but we also make everyone go through a metal detector with trained security at the door. We have walls of photos of extremists who we have to keep an eye out for. The current red alert is a pro-life convicted pedophile who has threatened to kill all the PP staff.
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Hatshepsut
Tell me about it.The entrance is not only electronically locked unless released, but we also make everyone go through a metal detector with trained security at the door. We have walls of photos of extremists who we have to keep an eye out for. The current red alert is a pro-life convicted pedophile who has threatened to kill all the PP staff.
OMG ! I'm sending postive thoughts your way.
I remember having a procedure at the PP in Houston near downtown. The people there were very supportive, which meant a lot esp. since I had went to another facility near SW FWY paid up front for the procedure only for them to scam me by saying I was further a long then I was and I needed to fork over more $$.. :'( >:( I don't know who is worse the extremist or the money hungry clinics.
Keep up the good work and just be extra careful..We can't afford to lose you.;)
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The current red alert is a pro-life convicted pedophile who has threatened to kill all the PP staff.
OH MY Gawd. Of course he's upset, you're striking at his precious seeding ground of new flesh!
& They're paying homeless people to be nuisances? That is truly cruel. Ugh.
The people need to go over to the bad side of town & try to "rescue" some of the unplanned pregnancy children that have resorted to immorality and excesses of carnal indulgence to survive, given their family units were not prepared to rear them "properly".
(I would be one of those illegitimate, Hell-bound "lovechildren", actually! I'm enjoying it too much though. :P)
(Edit to Add- believe it or not, in the Book of Exodus of the Bible, causing a miscarriage of a pregnancy is considered a monetarily-amendable, non-moral crime. No kidding. I don't feel like looking for that particular passage, though.)
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Thank you, Ms. H, on behalf of all women.
I'd been looking to volunteer at PP for years. I'm afraid that they'd reject me because I'm a working stripper. Would they reject me on the basis of my job?
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Thank you, Ms. H, on behalf of all women.
I'd been looking to volunteer at PP for years. I'm afraid that they'd reject me because I'm a working stripper. Would they reject me on the basis of my job?
I doubt it. PP services prostitutes (I know that you're not, I'm just making a point that we work with sex workers) in order to prevent epidemics, and the message is to give indiscriminate care. They also rely on volunteers to keep the place running. They already advocate many controversial causes. They would be very stupid to turn you down based on your job. Go for it! Make it very clear that you support their cause and that you support women's choice even if it is controversial.
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Wow, I've been trying to come up with a good volunteer option (read: something I actually, oh, believe in) to do, and I think this may be it. Thanks for sharing, and please, be careful while you're there.
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"Reynolds said she is friends with someone at the national campaign level, and felt she had to get involved after seeing what she described as years of pain in the lives of people touched by abortion.
"I don't want any woman, or man for that matter," to have to go through that pain," Reynolds said."
That part pissed me off the most. You don't want your friends to go through any pain. So you're going to take the kids, right? Because she's SO caring. Or block them from having sex? MYOB people! There's such a difference between supporting your friends during troubled times and throwing yourself in the path of people because you don't like what they're doing.
You'll be in my thoughts Hatshepsut!
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wow. the pp in my area is right near downtown, close to upperclass houses, and is a very safe place.
makes me glad to be in fl.
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^The main one where I'm volunteering is near downtown and the medical center, which is a nice part of town. However, these places are even more prone to protesters because a lot of them use kids to protest. They don't want their precious little bodyshields exposed to drive-by shootings or bums pissing on the sidewalks, so they stuck to the safer areas.
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congrats on the volunteer work!
sorry you have to work under such stress and danger though. good luck!
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This inspired me to get an application at PP near me too. It is definately something I believe in and would love to give my time to.
Good Luck!