Talk:March for Women's Lives (2004)

message: Several claims made concerning the "counter-protests" along Pennsylvania Avenue have been edited or removed, on the grounds that they were unsourced, ungrounded, or factually incorrect.
Unless there is a source that can be provided for the claim that there were "thousands" of counter-protesters, the claim should not be made; even Randall Terry claims only that "over a thousand" showed up. Other sources claim that there were more like 300. (Inflating what by all accounts is less than 2,000 participants to "thousands" is a standard trick of lazy press release writing; but a NPOV article should not engage in such tricks.)
The counter-protesters were not mainly dressed in black. The largest single contingent were Terry's "Operation Witness", who were wearing blue-and-yellow t-shirts.
The marchers were not "met by" the counter-protesters in any sense beyond them being within sight and shouting distance of each other. Counter-protesters were behind police barricades and those who crossed them were arrested.
I also note that every external source link I followed on this page led to pro-life websites. I have added some newsmedia sources and some reports from pro-choice writers and participants in the march in order to try to restore something vaguely resembling NPOV.
Radgeek 07:58, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Counter-Protests

message: There were also several topless protesters, though there was no record of any indecent exposure arrests.[5]
As someone who has seen a lot of DC and has had DC see a lot of me, I don't really agree with the assessment that being topless in the District is indecent exposure.  I don't recall the exact law, but I do believe that it's only a crime in DC if it is overtly sexual or if it is intentionally done in the presence of minors.  I feel we should confirm that being topless is a crime (in a Puritan nation like the US, you never know) in DC before we have a wikipedia article point out that there weren't any arrests for it. Bugg42 23:36, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Indecent exposure for topless protesters?

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message: There have been a number of events called the March for Women's Lives. The article should either reflect this or be more specific in its title and lead section about the event it's referring to (eg. "March for Women's Lives (2004)"). For example, there were also such marches in 1989 and 1992. However, as they all appear to have been associated with NOW, the article could simply be re-worked into an article on all of the marches with this name, in the same way that March for Life covers all events of that name. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 20:08, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Let's revisit this matter once we have some coverage of these earlier marches.  Otherwise, no sense to change it unless we have something to build on or disambiguate for.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 20:27, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: NOW organized March[es] for Women's Lives in 1986, 1989, and 1992, per this source. There's every reason to mention those in this article now, and to prepare a naming convention. Does March for Women's Lives, YEAR work for everyone?--Carwil (talk) 14:55, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
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