“You get raped… and you tell me what you’d do after that.”
This was just one of the brilliant lines delivered by a pregnant woman when she blasted anti-abortion protesters in London this week.
The woman was a passerby who witnessed the anti-abortion protesters secretly filming women entering and leaving an abortion clinic. Despite the obvious camera dangling around one of their necks, the anti-abortion protesters denied filming anyone when confronted by the clinic’s management.
Enter: glorious pregnant passerby with eloquent and passionate smackdown.
1.22 minutes into the video, the passerby unleashes her delightful wrath, shutting down the protesters’ arguments immediately with lines like, “for you to be standing out here and to be putting it on other women is wrong, so fucking wrong.”
It is one of the most satisfying and cathartic things you will watch this week. Buckle in and enjoy.
Top Comments
I'm 100% pro-abortion. This being established, In defense of the protesters, they believe they are doing the right thing. I'm assuming that their protests outside clinics are to make women think twice before they walk into the clinic. This ultimately COULD lead to a child being born that might not otherwise have been. The angered lady, and she has a right to be angry and to have an opinion, assumes that the protesters goal is to GUILT women and this is obviously a pointless goal and not their intent. I find the responses to protesters worrying. In a country that prides itself on freedom of speech, if we respond to other groups exercising their right of that which we pride ourselves on, when does the hypocrisy end? Should we not simply yell at and beat down anyone we disagree with until we have a completely unified ideology? This would surely not be ideal. The law allows abortion, the law allows free speech. In a country that allows abortion and free speech there should, thus, be arguments for and against both sides but ultimately the INDIVIDUAL woman chooses her path. Whether or not she feels guilty about any one thing or another based on conflicting views is an inevitable internal struggle that every human being must deal with nearly every day. Our responses to stimuli are our choices, It seems unfair to pinpoint protesters WHO MEAN WELL (even if they may unintentionally hurt others) is not a solution to anything and is only part of the problem.
Never did the women say that they should not protest! What she did say was to move away from where they were, that they had not done their homework in relation to where they were. Did you see the poster that the pro-lifers had up on the wall? l fear your 'assumption's' are wrong. The protestors are out to intimidate these women(filming them??) and make them feel guilty and bad about themselves. Yes we do need freedom of speech. Thank god that we live in countries that have freedom of speech, but that doesn't give people the right to intimidate other, especially in such traumatic and difficult time.
She's spot on. They shouldn't have been trying to make their point there. They have the right to think that abortion is wrong, but it's cruel to protest that outside an abortion clinic where people are going because they have/are trying to make a very hard decision, and at the same time those women have the right to decide to have an abortion. Like she said, there are plenty of circumstances where it wouldn't be ideal to bring a child into the world, and these women are being responsible, instead of just having the baby and leaving it in drain or in a bin. I'm sure it would be a horribly difficult and traumatising thing to go through for every single person that does it.
thus it was cruel to protest outside the julian blanc cruise boats in melbourne?
That's a completely different and irrelevant situation. I wasn't saying ALL protests are cruel. Julien Blanc was creep who was trying promote misogynist sexual aggression and giving talks to spread these ideas. The people protesting against him were trying to prevent him from making other people think the behaviour he advocates is okay. The women at the abortion clinic weren't going around trying to advertise abortions, they were privately making personal and sensitive decisions about their own bodies and lives.