Re the banners on Market Street proclaiming “Abortion hurts women”: The proclamation is hate speech and untrue (“Ah, the holiday season along Market Street,” City Insider, Jan.\u00a01).<\/p>\n
That the city of San Francisco should allow this to be broadcast across our main thoroughfare or any thoroughfare at all is damaging and hurtful to women and men\u00a0alike.<\/p>\n
The March for Life banner-hangers have every right to their religious and political beliefs. They do not have the right to spread misinformation in utter disregard of girls and women everywhere. Women like\u00a0me.<\/p>\n
I had a back-alley abortion in 1956 after a workplace rape. The abortion did not hurt me; it gave me back my life. I was lucky. Millions of women like me, before Roe vs. Wade offered safety, were indeed hurt – or wound up\u00a0dead.<\/p>\n
If each marcher under those banners could find and know one actual fetus to protect, and simultaneously see and know the woman in whose body that fetus resides, I suggest the marcher might want to protect that woman too. She is likely to be poor, disempowered and desperate. Forcing those like her to bear unwanted children or endanger themselves – that <\/em>hurts women. The banners should come\u00a0down.<\/p>\n Fran Johns<\/a>, San Francisco <\/em><\/p>\n San Francisco Chronicle, Letters to the Editor, Jan. 4, 2014<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/opinion\/letterstoeditor\/article\/Letters-to-the-editor-Jan-4-5112353.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" strike the banners Re the banners on Market Street proclaiming “Abortion hurts women”: The proclamation is hate speech and untrue (“Ah, the holiday season along Market Street,” City Insider, Jan.\u00a01). That the city of San Francisco should allow this to … Continue reading