The Culture of Life Foundation reported that at least one pro-abortion group has threatened to assault pro-life counter-protestors during the pro-abortion “March for Women's Lives” tomorrow in Washington DC. The first of its kind since 1992, the March is being described by the National Organization for Women (NOW) as “the most significant and massive abortion rights march in over a decade.”
In response to pro-life groups that have announced counter-protests, pro-abortion demonstrators are encouraging destructive and confrontational tactics. In an alert sent out to its supporters, a group calling itself the Radical Cheerleaders of DC said that pro-lifers will be present at the March, and that engaging them in debate is useless “because they are irrational and will not listen to you,” so one way to handle them is to destroy their property, because “a thick layer of paint could really complement a bloody fetus picture.”
Pro-life demonstrators and organizations plan to congregate along the sidewalks of the March route. They will gather according to specific groupings such as parents with small children and infants, women who have had abortions, college students, pro-abortion converts, and the clergy. This has angered pro-abortion organizers.
The NOW website explains that the first amendment grants pro-lifers “the right to hold a counter-protest, but it does not grant them the right to interfere with our demonstration. Washington D.C. police are already negotiating with the reproductive rights opponents to determine a specific site for their counter-protest that will minimize the possibility of confrontation.”
The Radical Cheerleaders calls upon “feminists, radical cheerleaders, anti-authoritarians, [and] anarchists” to “rise up against a tyrannical government which threatens to penetrate women's bodies with its laws.” The group also calls upon the radical community to move beyond the current pro-choice movement, which it claims has not done enough for women. Spokesmen say the group plans on “showing the government, as well as the pro-choice movement, that the radical community is as committed to the issue of women's choice as it is to anything else.” In January, the group held a “guerrilla workshop” to practice organized resistance for the march as well as other events.
Further fuelling fears of violence, in order to swell their numbers, March sponsors have invited the participation of anti-globalization groups who will already be in Washington DC to protest the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Massive violence has followed wherever the anti-globalists gather, including in Genoa, Italy, where anti-globalists rioted and one demonstrator was killed.
According to the Washington Post, one of these groups, Mobilization for Global Justice, which organized the 2000 protests that “led to mass arrests and disrupted parts of downtown,” plans on “having a contingent at the women's march.”
(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
“Catholics” for a Free Choice to Protest Vatican “Fundamentalism”
A march is planned for April 24-25 by the pro-abortion, anti-Catholic, “Catholics” for a Free Choice organization, to protest Vatican “Fundamentalism.”
A statement on the CFFC web-site says, “Speak out against the Vatican and Bush administration's worldwide efforts to limit access to family planning, safe abortion, condoms to prevent the transmission of HIV, sexuality education, and emergency contraception.”
The march is inspired by the CFFC contention that “Catholics are pro-choice.” The CFFC argues that “Conservative Catholics want all Americans to believe that you can't be Catholic and prochoice, but the majority of Catholics ARE prochoice.”
The CFFC also contends that “The greatest threat to women today is religious fundamentalism – whatever the faith, whatever the party. Sadly, Roman Catholic fundamentalists and the Bush administration have launched a war on women which must be stopped.”
Catholics For Free Choice follows the Margaret Sanger strategy of recruiting agents within religious denominations to manipulate members to reject their moral principles and accept population control measures such as contraception and abortion.
Read more about the CFFC protest here.
(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
