Fears are held for the safety of women in Texas after an anti-abortion group infiltrated a pro-choice volunteering service, with the aim of kidnapping women to change their minds on abortion.
A post circulating on Facebook released the email of a volunteer group within The Cicada Collective, an "autonomous community-centred group of reproductive justice organisers located in North Texas".
According to the post, the Collective was looking for volunteers to "shuttle TX women around for their abortion appointments" and called for anti-choice campaigners to apply, undercover, in a bid to lure the women away.
It then urges the undercover guises to instead ferry the women to a Church to delay the abortion and ultimately, change her mind.
"I'm not suggesting you actually takea (sic) woman to an abortion clinic," it reads. "It's a wonderful opportunity to minister to an abortion minded woman for an hour while you DON'T take her to the clinic."
"And hey if you can't change her mind by the time she gets out of your car and realises she is at church and not the clinic she's missed her appointment anyway".
Yes let's infiltrate a group under false pretenses, lie to emotionally fragile pregnant women, and then kidnap them. What a great plan....for getting sent to prison.
Look I know these idiots live in some crazy alternative reality where the laws of humankind do not apply to them, and God is willing to post their bail if they just pray hard enough, but surely there is SOMEBODY within his organization who realizes what a horrible this is.
And if they don't realize it now I have to believe that after they have been sent to a Federal penitentiary for kidnapping, the thought might occur to them then.
Seriously is there any place in the country where it is worse to be a woman than Texas?
Saw this shit yesterday...
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And that is why Wendy Davis will be the new Gov of Texas!
think they'll ultimately emulate this ? >>>>
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How are these idiots not in jail for a plot to kidnap and illegally detain women? Oh, yes, because it's just women they're threatening.
ReplyDeleteKidnapping, as you point out, is a Federal felony. Orange is the new black, ladies. You can all crochet booties together during your 5-7 year stretch behind bars.
ReplyDeleteI just..I can't even..no words.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to say that only in Texas would anyone be nuts enough to try this, but there are a few other crazy states out there that don't need any more ideas on how to make women's lives miserable.
ReplyDeleteNothing seems to stop these people except exposing and embarrassing them.
o/t ---- Sarah Palin, who is not a Roman Catholic and knows nothing about the Jesuits, of which the new Pope is one, is now saying she's surprised at how "liberal" he is, and she doesn't approve.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, Sarah, it's not your religion, so it's none of your business.
Secondly, not everything can be boiled down to your simplistic political views.
Finally, the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) more closely reflect the views of Jesus than you may ever be able to comprehend. Jesus was a liberal. Read your Bible.
/s/ Not-a-Catholic but one who knows more about the Church than Sarah clearly does.
P.S. Sarah -- the KKK and others of their ilk (tea people nowadays) have always had a strong anti-Catholic prejudice.
You'd better tred carefully.
Yep, the "Church" will drop a house on her!
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DeleteThe condescension is palpable. Women who are this deluded about Jesus are already lobotomized.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Sarah is in a church that despises Catholics. I wouldn’t look to her for a cogent thought regarding the pope.
ReplyDeleteI would like to attempt to answer Gryph's question about being a woman in Texas. I can only comment on my own experience. When I was 14 years old my mother gave custody of me to my 25 year old boyfriend at the time. I was totally on-board with this, don't get me wrong. The point I'm making is that she did so with the states blessing. As long as we promised to get married, the whole thing took five minutes. Not even that long. This was a long time ago. We may have had some Dem's running things back then, I don't remember. Looking back though, I have to think that to the state, I wasn't important enough to interview alone in a judges chamber, no social worker was called, nothing. That's a little bit of what it's like to be a woman in Texas. Before anyone says it, YES, I would leave if I had anywhere to go.
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Lawsuit.
ReplyDeleteBoycott Texas but export all the good Texan's first.
ReplyDeleteI've been an abortion escort, and this is so beyond the pale of the level of crazy I've encountered. I don't mind signs and megaphones, shooting abortion providers or attempting to kidnap ANYONE and "SAVE THEM"??
Prison can be isolating, but it's never lonely - the perfect place for these assclowns.
This will be the most mean spirited thing I've said in ages...but has anyone else noticed that the people you see carrying signs screaming to prevent abortions, look like they should have experienced that procedure?
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