The crowd was well-mannered, U.S. Capitol Police said, and except for some sexually explicit protest signs and shirts, the event often resembled a family picnic. Across the street from the park, a group of antiabortion advocates tried to get its message across, too. Antiabortion advocate Catherine Geisler, of Olney, said she, too, once chanted for abortion rights as a young woman and has since become convinced that women have better control of their bodies when they choose not to have sex outside marriage. Geisler said she's haunted by her daughter's choice to live with a man to whom she is not married and to use birth control to stop the consequences. It's just wrong.
Chastity is the way.
The friend was blindfolded and taken in a car to a tenement apartment, Palm said, where a man who was not a physician performed the illegal procedure on a kitchen table. And I don't want that ever happening to my granddaughter. Many, if not most, of the protesters were too young to have such memories. They were born after the landmark 1973 court decision but were just as riled at the thought of being forced to continue an unwanted pregnancy. There are 5 million children in neglectful, abusive homes in this country.