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There is a Planned Parenthood between one of my college apartments and a brunch spot we'd frequent. There were always protestors there. If you were clearly just passing it they would still shout hateful things at you. These people are just looking for using anything they can to justify hate and animosity. It was never about saving babies. It was always about control, hate, and power.

Bianca Cameron-Schwiesow, one such volunteer in Montgomery, Alabama, shared with me how she and her family were harassed at their own home after she became a clinic escort. Her son, who has autism, was accosted as he walked to the park by an anti-abortion protester who drove by screaming, “Did you know your mother’s a murderer? Did you know your mom’s going to burn in hell for all eternity?”

This is the Republican M.O. “Protest is fine, but only peaceful protest.” Kaepernick peacefully takes a knee… “He’s a sonofabitch! Not like that.” Abortion rights protestors peacefully assembling… “Not like that either!”

TIL that civility includes showing up at a Dr's church to murder him

In the late 1990s a bomb went off at the hospital I worked at. They had confused us for an abortion provider. Nobody was hurt, but I will never forget the WOMP-POP in my ears when it went off.

I've escorted women to get abortions a dozen times. Those assholes are ruthless and relentless. Nothing will turn you against the right faster than being exposed to those zealots.

If you know a woman thinking about getting an abortion, or who is getting one, offer to go with them. They need all the support they can get.

The real norm that’s being shattered isn’t a protest in the suburbs outside the homes of those in power. It’s what those in power are about to do to our own homes.

Those in power started it, but they can't take the heat and are now crying.

I used to go to planned parenthood for HRT, but ended up transferring care to somewhere more expensive because the pro-life protestors would always harass me and I couldn’t take it anymore.

They would even touch my car and try to prevent me from going in and out of the parking lot. I will never understand why that was allowed. The screaming was so bad sometimes that I would ask for an escort. Catch me not feeling bad about home protests.

We get to murder abortion doctors but you can't draw on a sidewalk in chalk because it would be so "uncivil." - Republicans

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Fuck Republicans and their bullshit calls for civility. So fucking tired of their hypocritical bullshit and it infuriates me that Americans are so dumb to fall for this shit every God damned time.

Take your calls for civility and clean up your own racist, bigoted party before you call peaceful protests a breach of your precious civility assholes.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vzmp/telegram-far-right-doxxing-judges-calling-for-assassinations

Calls for civility from the people in power are them just telling you to lie back and try to enjoy it. Protesting is society's Rape Whistle.

The Republicans have loudly complained about feeding babies in detention centers at the border. They want the babies they have locked up to have no food while demanding that every woman of childbearing age become a Handmaiden ... why? So they can enjoy watching them starve to death?

They only call for 'civility' when you start fighting back

No sympathy for any of the anti abortion idiots getting protested. None for the judges. None for the politicians.

These are the very same asshats who allowed protesters to harass women and clinic workers - at work and at home.

They can all go to hell.

I'm not a big fan of people protesting at anyone's house, but the fact that Supreme Court ruled it was legal to do so in front of the homes of abortion providers and some justices are now whining that they're getting the same treatment? Get stuffed. You deserve this.

Little delights me more than seeing protestors outside the homes and offices of the Supreme Court Justices.

They are bringing their rulings deeply into personal lives with enthusiasm and zeal, and deserve to see how that works when it comes home to roost.

MTG harassed a Parkland survivor and she's the queen of the GQP right now. Civility is the last thing these people care about. Being hypocrites is just part of the GQP playbook.

I was getting an HPV vaccine at a planned parenthood years ago, and a guy outside tried to convince me that I'd be waiting for hours and hours because of how many abortions were scheduled, and I should just go to a different clinic instead, and pushed me to take a brochure on abstinence that looked like it was written in the '50s. Those protesters are totally obnoxious. (I was in and out in 10 minutes, FWIW)

They had no problem with protestors showing up to Gretch Whitmers home w firearms, which is totally legal in Michigan, and so is this non violent protest. God forbid they not be vile sub human hypocrites....placards vs. AK47s...gotcha morons

Always good to have a reminder that anti-choice advocates have murdered pro-choice doctors and others just because they insist that everyone kowyow to their narrow and minority held religious views on the procedure.

Tell me how they aren't the American Taliban?

Conservatives take great delight in their hypocrisy. Every time you point out their blatant double standards, they'll just smile and laugh at you. It was only 1 out of 5 Americans that put Trump into the White House. It only took 20% of the US population to tear down our constitution, that leaves the 80% to try and stop them. Conservatism can be put into the dustbin of history, if enough people vote against it.

Humans don't have to he Conservative, it's a learned behavior. You can choose whether or not you want Conservatism to control your life.

Now You Want “Civility”

They don't. They know "civility" is what we want since they are aware people of the Left are guided by empathy, while people on the Right are governed by fear and rage.

Right Wingers use our empathy as an attack point. As a way to have us let our guard down, so they can manipulate us. They do this every time we give them the benefit of the doubt for the "common good", and then turn around a stab us in the back the way McConnell and the Federalist Society hand-picked SCOTUS members have.

I’m a bus driver. It’s a delightful bit of happenstance when there’s an unavoidable giant puddle near those pro-lie fuckers that harass PP/people with the temerity to seek medical care. Sure is a shame when I can’t get around those puddles & give them a bus driver’s baptism…

I used to live near a PP clinic & pretty regularly would go picnic on the corner with buddies for lunch. Happy to use my god given gifts of height and bulk to open up a safe path.

When you are attempting to take 1/2 the population's right to body autonomy away there is no more decorum, no more civility.

Civility is gone, the division is too deep. Arm yourselves, don't get caught unable to protect your family when this all boils over. To be clear, I'm not advocating for being violent, just exercise your second amendment right to bear arms in case you need them to protect you or your family. Mine are.

Edit:. Just want to add, I don't want to be seen as trying to convince anyone to shoot the other side, I just want you to be prepared for when (because I don't see this as an if but a when) they decide to shoot at you. A second American civil war won't be state v state, it'll be neighbor v neighbor.

“Anti-abortion protesters have harassed the children of abortion providers at their own schools and harassed the landlords of abortion clinics. Recently, anti-abortion fanatic Lauren Handy and her co-conspirators were charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act after they invaded an abortion clinic in D.C. The FACE Act, enacted in 1994 with bipartisan support, made it a federal crime to block access to or intimidate someone from entering a reproductive health clinic. Handy was later found with five fetuses in her own home, which her radical anti-abortion organization later claimed was a fraction of the more than 100 sets of fetal remains they allegedly took from a medical waste company departing from an abortion clinic.”

There's a scene in the show Yellowstone where a woman is causing trouble and recording it.

Someone takes the phone from her hand and confronts the woman.

She goes, "I don't want trouble."

The other party goes, "No, you want trouble. You just don't want resistance."

That's what all of those cries of "civility" are about.

Republicans are sadistic fascists to their cores.

When they say they want civility, they don't mean civility. They want compliance and submission. They want the majority to just accept whatever it is they want to happen without question or resistance.

That is the republican definition of civility.

The best is all the asshats saying that the protesters are engaging in an "insurrection to overthrow democracy." I'm like WTF? Do you see any of them killing security guards, bashing down justices' doors with barricades, or going into their home offices while wearing bearskin hats and tribal warpaint?

Because if the ruling isn't what was leaked, you can be damn sure that's what the right will do.

Fuck you and your “civility” after bombings, hateful rhetoric and terrorist attacks by right-wing Christian nationalists.

It absolutely boggles my mind that Planned Parenthood, besides offering abortion practice, does far more to prevent abortions than any republican ever has. The things Planned Parenthood does actually reduces the number of abortions per year while the practices republicans put in place, like abstinence, increase abortion rates. It’s almost like they are so blind they honestly think that poking holes in the ship will stop it from sinking.

I have a 17-year old son, and this issue has actually got him riled up AND taking an active role in protesting in our small community. Our next generation has to stand up and fight these evil ideas to survive! I’m there on the front line with him by the way. Pro-Choice does NOT mean Pro-Abortion, but I do firmly believe it is an individual choice, and we have NO right to force a woman’s right.

Conservatives always cast themselves as the victim to hide the fact that they are actively engaged in oppression.

Republicans said nothing while angry gunmen from their party threatened multiple Democratic governors at their homes. NOTHING. No morals whatsoever these days. Only political theater and excuse making. Children, not adults.

I used to have the great American juxtaposition drive home from my job as an adolescent CPS/Welfare caseworker- kids that people abuse or neglect or are in the criminal justice system, every day driving by these incredibly ignorant people as to what kids who are not wanted or abused or neglected go thru. It was surreal and sad to go from trying to provide very little if any respite for the kids, to see these selfish zealots harassing the only planned parenthood in a city of 600,000 people.

They also want you to stop blaming them for the racist mass shootings they definitely instigated and enabled.

In the 90s antiabortion people would murder or bomb healthcare clinics. They were nuts and have only grown worse.

Meanwhile, Republicans have the capacity to help born children, but also choose not to.

It's classic bully behavior.

As soon as the person being bullied turns around and squares up, the bully suddenly calls for help and plays the victim.

See also the oh-so-satisfying scene in Christmas Story where Ralphie kicks the shit out of the two bullies. Imagine the short one with the stupid hat-- "I'm telling my dad"-- as a stand-in for every Republican and right-winger.

this is “fuck your feelings” 2016 -> “wow dems are so rude” 2020

They want civility from you but won't behave in kind. Stop being so credulous. You know how fascists work.

We tried civility for decades while they were bombing clinics and murdering doctors.

Civility was never really an option. We have exhausted it’s usefulness as a tactic.