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Budi

(15,325 posts)
Thu May 19, 2022, 07:43 PM May 2022

BILLBOARD. The Hope Clinic for Women, out of Granite City, Illinois





A billboard is grabbing drivers' attentions along Interstate 55. It reads, “Welcome to Illinois, where you can get a safe, legal abortion.” The Hope Clinic for Women, out of Granite City, put it up.

Meet the woman behind the abortion resistance being run from an Illinois farm
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/news/2022/05/17/meet-the-woman-behind-the-abortion-resistance-being-run-from-an-illinois-farm-

More info or to donate
Where there's Choice, there's Hope.
Hope Clinic is committed to providing the highest quality medical and emotional abortion care with dignity and compassion.

https://hopeclinic.com/
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BILLBOARD. The Hope Clinic for Women, out of Granite City, Illinois (Original Post) Budi May 2022 OP
The article, a very painful read. sheshe2 May 2022 #1
It took women decades to achieve what we did. Budi May 2022 #2
How true on Hillary. roamer65 May 2022 #7
Our daughters, & sons too who aspire to do good for all.. Budi May 2022 #9
K&R Solly Mack May 2022 #3
I want one of these signs on I-75 and I-69 in Michigan. roamer65 May 2022 #4
They need a big, high electric fence around that farm. Sogo May 2022 #5
Yup. I fear for their safety. They probaly do as well. Budi May 2022 #8
👍 Joinfortmill May 2022 #6

sheshe2

(83,319 posts)
1. The article, a very painful read.
Thu May 19, 2022, 08:09 PM
May 2022

Women are now back in the dark ages.

So many good people are trying to help despite the consequences.

I am crying.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
2. It took women decades to achieve what we did.
Thu May 19, 2022, 08:54 PM
May 2022

To see it be handed away so carelessly & so swiftly by the unthinking & selfish minded is devastating, for those lives committed to bringing it about, & to those who will never know of such rights but in the stories passed down over time.
What it was like pre 2022, when women could decide in private, which health & reproductive choices would be best for their lifstyle
And that women of pre2022, actually had such a choice.

Imagine a grama or mom today telling their grown daughter what women's healthcare was like when they were her age.
Or simply pre 2022.

How did this not become as big a rally cry in 2016 as we see it is today.
Where were all these women when their power & voices were needed.
I'm stunned by that fact alone.

Did they take that torch so carelessly for granted? All these voices today? Where were they when we needed them.
I want to look at them all & ask, How could you do this?

The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.” – Gloria Steinem


Inspired Illustration, “FEMINISM AT WORK,” Pays Tribute To Pioneers Who Moved Women’s History Forward
WYSKMARCH 10, 2015

Meet The 12 Women Of Feminism At Work
https://womenyoushouldknow.net/inspired-illustration-feminism-work-pays-tribute-pioneers-moved-womens-history-forward/
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I have this Feminism at Work print. I bought early in the 2016 campaign.
On behalf of our hope for final equality under law, by our 1st woman President Hillary Clinton.
Her life legacy was literally women & human rights above all else.
We were within a few steps of proudly carrying that torch of all women before us, on to it's final home & set as the law of the land.



They spit at her face. They threw dollar bills as her car passed by their hate protests.
The cheered the politician who called Planned Parenthood 'Establishment'.
They degraded the very woman who carried that long lifted torch into the future for all girls forevermore.

How could these women we hear today, calling loudly as they now demand the very same sacred Rights they so casually handed away, as they stood so loudly against us in 2016.
How could they do this?






 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
9. Our daughters, & sons too who aspire to do good for all..
Thu May 19, 2022, 10:29 PM
May 2022

The generations who will come of age not knowing how it should & could be. How it once was for their own self care, & respect of their own personal decisions.
They won't know what it is.


roamer65

(36,739 posts)
4. I want one of these signs on I-75 and I-69 in Michigan.
Thu May 19, 2022, 10:12 PM
May 2022

Just across the border from IN and OH.

We are going to overturn that stupid 1931 law. It’s already under injunction.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
8. Yup. I fear for their safety. They probaly do as well.
Thu May 19, 2022, 10:21 PM
May 2022

I hope the State of Illinois protects them.

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