A clinic’s landlord turns the tables on anti-abortion protesters

[kpete]

A clinic’s landlord turns the tables on anti-abortion protesters
"I’ve been a member of this fight since Roe v. Wade, since I was 5 years old,” he said. The office was firebombed when he was a kid, and protesters gathered outside the family home as he was growing up. So he’s no stranger to the harassment and bullying of doctors and their families.

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But his tormentors crossed the line last fall when a big group showed up at his daughter’s middle school on the first day of classes and again at back-to-school night. They had signs displaying his name and contact information as well as those gory images of the fetuses.

“What parent wants to have that conversation with an 11-year-old on the first day of school?” he fumed.

Soon after that, the harassing calls started coming to his home. By the dozens, at all hours. Friends asked him how they could help. He began to take down the names and phone numbers of people who made unwanted calls. And he gave the information to his friends and asked them to call these folks back.

“In a very calm, very respectful voice, they said that the Stave family thanks you for your prayers,” he said. “They cannot terminate the lease, and they do not want to. They support women’s rights.”

the rest (great story):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-clinics-landlord-turns-the-tables-on-anti-abortion-protesters/2012/03/29/gIQAThgwiS_story.html

[xchrom]

1. Du rec. Nt

[randome]

2. Fight fire with water.

Not fire.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. What a smart move! Kudos to him...n/t

[hamsterjill]

4. I love this!

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, so to speak.

Good for him for standing up for HIS rights in a non-threatening way.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. actually, NOT an eye for an eye---that would be

jumping right into the world of Anger with them.

Beautiful response he and his friends came up with.

an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind--Gandhi

[hamsterjill]

11. That's right.

As per my original post, I commended him for his nonthreatening actions.

[lark]

5. K&R

Excellent article, thank you so much for sharing. This came at an excellent time, when I really needed some good news.

[Generic Other]

6. Heavy breathing...

"Hello prochoice person who lives at 1234 Main Street, Anywhere USA . How is your wife who works for X Company and your cute little children who go to X School? Who play soccer every Wednesday at X Park? I saw you at X Church last Sunday. You were driving an X car. I spoke to your son last week. He said to say 'Hi Dad.' God Bless now, y'hear?"

[kiva]

7. Brilliant.

I would volunteer to help with an operation like this.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

8. Amazing what we achieve working together. n/t

[lib_wit_it]

9. The same Reich Wing screechers freaking over the posting of addresses related to (or mistakenly

thought to relate to) the killer of Trayvon Martin never seemed to have a problem with the anti-choice terrorists broadcasting all of these details of abortion providers' families. I don't say it was right in the case of the Zimmerman family, either. I'm just saying, the RW hypocrisy is astounding.

[duhneece]

12. I admire clever responses

I keep hoping that I will someday be able to respond cleverly!

[CrispyQ]

13. Excellent story.

People who want to stop abortion can make a difference with education, counseling and genuine efforts to prevent unwanted pregnancies and support child-rearing.

They need to work toward safe and affordable day care and health care for children and toward generous workplace policies, including adequate family leave, so that parenthood is not an onerous and difficult prospect in America.

Well said!!

[a2liberal]

14. K&R (n/t)

[libodem]

15. I hate those bloodly depictions of aborted fetuses

I always wanted to counter with a picture from a forensics textbook, I saw, of the dead little girl with the hairbrush imbedded in her skull.

Child abuse is a grisly way to die.

[PA Democrat]

17. "The family of a protester who called Stave’s home could get up to 5,000 calls in return."

[Politicub]

18. K&r!

[progressoid]

19. This is a thing of beauty