Defeated Anti Abortion Group Tries to Rally in Moorhead, MN


After decades of effort, anti-women activists in North Dakota were able to pass a bill prohibiting abortions in their state. The state's only abortion clinic was in Fargo. That clinic closed and moved a short distance into Moorhead MN and is now open. The new location is more difficult to picket than the former place in Fargo. 

With loads of money to splash around, an anti-women group funded a rally in Moorhead against the clinic. An outdoor venue with a rented tent was set was set up and a celebrity speaker flown in. All of this illustrated the uselessness of the decades of lobbying in ND and the huge amount of donors' money spent doing it. Now even more donors' money is being spent for a useless high budget rally. 

Reality has to be all the rallies, speeches, harassment of women entering the clinic, letters to the editor and donated money has not stopped one single abortion. With clinics available in states bordering anti-women states the same thing is happening in many places. When all the statistic are in, I have no doubt results in the U.S. will mirror those everywhere else: Women with the lowest incomes are the ones who do not get abortions. They, of course, are the ones most harmed by pregnancies. They have a hard time making enough money to live and now an unwanted extra mouth to feed comes along.

That women get abortions even with laws against it not only hurts women who have to travel and spend extra money. Ultimately, it hurts the anti-women cause. Surveys in Ireland and Chile, both of which legalized abortion in recent years, found that lots of people supported abortion rights because a.) abortions went on almost unaffected and b.) poor women were harmed the most. The same experience in Ireland and Chile is, I believe, what we can anticipate in the U.S.

Those professional propagandists sponsoring the rally in Moorhead are no doubt looking to beef up local money collected and the volunteers it takes to put on the impression they are doing something very popular. If the vote in Kansas reflects other states in the Midwest, it is not popular. 

How could giving pregnant women the same status as a convicted criminal on parole be popular? That where anti women is headed.

Comments

  1. GrandmaAugust 22, 2022 at 4:23 PM

    Nice piece. I worked for a while at Fargo woman’s health clinic and it was the only job I’ve ever had which came with training on handling bomb threats.

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  2. JonAugust 22, 2022 at 6:17 PM

    Grandma--Hat's off to you for working in the midst of the crazies.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 23, 2022 at 2:00 PM

    100,000 hits a day and your only comment is from granny. BTW granny, I have had a few bomb scares as well, worked in govt buildings for many years. N.B. I'm not anonymous, google just says I am.

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  4. JonAugust 23, 2022 at 6:36 PM

    Anonymous--I helps if you can enter a name. Click on the drop down triangle just to the right of "anonymous" and you can enter a name. This is not the most user friendly place but it should allow that.

    As to you bomb scare and Granny working among anti abortion zealots, yes, others have these unpleasant threats as well. I have had them.

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