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| Betsy<\/td>\n | Eudey<\/td>\n | Accurate information and \u00a0 resources related to health is a necessity, and federal, state and local \u00a0 governments must do all they can to ensure that misinformation is not overtly \u00a0 or covertly supported. Individuals and organizations should not have the \u00a0 opportunity to post misleading or medically false information on public \u00a0 property, especially when doing so appears to have the blessing\/support of \u00a0 the government.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracy<\/td>\n | Sherman<\/td>\n | I have never visited San \u00a0 Francisco, it has long been on my list of places I would like to go. I \u00a0 assumed the culture was open and honest (you are famous for your Gay \u00a0 community after all). But this has changed my mind. Any city foolish enough \u00a0 to let a few idiots put up banners that are patently FALSE is no longer a \u00a0 place I want to visit. I speak from the experience of 2 abortions for very \u00a0 different reasons. One saved my life and the other saved my child from \u00a0 suffering and dying right after birth. Not only did these not hurt – they \u00a0 were blessings. Next time you decide to make stupid statements, perhaps you \u00a0 will think about the tourist money you are losing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Barbara<\/td>\n | Nielsen<\/td>\n | Abortion does not hurt women. \u00a0 Abortion is legal. San Francisco City and County is displaying false \u00a0 statements about women’s legal healthcare and reproductive rights options in \u00a0 contradiction to City policies and practices. We call on the Mayor and \u00a0 elected leaders to TAKE DOWN THE BANNERS as soon as possible.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liz<\/td>\n | Newbury<\/td>\n | Abortion is safe and legal. \u00a0 Let’s keep it that way. Disseminating deliberate misinformation to promote \u00a0 particular religious ideologies is dangerous to women and their families. The great city of San Francisco can do better by its citizens \u00a0 and guests than to use city property to promote misinformation for religious \u00a0 purposes.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n| Louise<\/td>\n | Calabro<\/td>\n | Abortion is safe reproductive \u00a0 health care for women — lies about this hurt women, rather than helping \u00a0 them.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Lauren<\/td>\n | Schweizer<\/td>\n | Abortion \u00a0 must be legal to be safe, illegal abortions hurt women.<\/span> Take down the banners!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Michele<\/td>\n | Chandler<\/td>\n | Access = CHOICE!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | John<\/td>\n | Fiore<\/td>\n | Appalled \u00a0 that we are paying for lies on OUR lamp posts<\/span>. \u00a0 Will we do absolutely anything\/everything for money?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Mary Ann<\/td>\n | Castle<\/td>\n | As a former resident of San \u00a0 Francisco and an advocate for human rights, I am outraged<\/span> at the medically inaccurate public health message that are \u00a0 being displayed on SD City banners. I request that they be removed \u00a0 immediately and that medically accurate information be provided to girls an \u00a0 women.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | shayna<\/td>\n | lewis<\/td>\n | As a former, and hopefully again \u00a0 in the near future, resident of San Francisco, it is incredibly \u00a0 disheartening<\/span> to learn that the City is promoting \u00a0 such blatant misinformation. I urge you to take down these banners as soon as \u00a0 possible.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Carol<\/td>\n | Bailey<\/td>\n | As a frequent visitor to San \u00a0 Francisco, I can not believe the signs posted along Market St. I expect \u00a0 “the city” to be an eclectic mix of everything good – not a \u00a0 messenger for untruths.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Trina<\/td>\n | Semorile<\/td>\n | As a native \u00a0 San Franciscan, I am outraged<\/span> this this has been \u00a0 permitted and allowed to continue. I will shortly be in San Francisco for a \u00a0 visit and trust these signs will be gone. Get them down. Hate speech is NOT \u00a0 free speech. Hate speech kills.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Ann<\/td>\n | Boddum<\/td>\n | As a Nurse practitioner who has \u00a0 worked in San Francisco Kaiser OB department. These banner goes beyond the \u00a0 line ..they are false . And it is a very false statement to allow to put up \u00a0 as if the city of San Francisco is saying this. You must have them removed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Joan<\/td>\n | Edelstein<\/td>\n | As a nursing faculty in SF, and \u00a0 past resident, I trust the administration will properly attend to this \u00a0 violation of City regulations. These banners harm women!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Kathy<\/td>\n | King<\/td>\n | As a \u00a0 physician<\/span> I am outraged that the city would allow \u00a0 these signs to be posted on city property. Freedom of speech – yes – but city \u00a0 support of misinformation – NO!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Gene<\/td>\n | Bishop<\/td>\n | As a physician I find this a \u00a0 poor public health message<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | diane<\/td>\n | gottlieb<\/td>\n | As a woman and a health \u00a0 professional I am dismayed by this poor choice. This same mayor has also been \u00a0 responsible for the increase in homeless mentally ill in sanfrancisco, which \u00a0 is another preventable public health situation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Norma J F<\/td>\n | Harrison<\/td>\n | ASK ME ABOUT HOW WONDERFUL I \u00a0 FELT, ABORTING MY unwanted PREGNANCIES!!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Thea<\/td>\n | Selby<\/td>\n | Attaching to the Snowflakes? \u00a0 Really?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Bertha<\/td>\n | Mo<\/td>\n | Dear Mayor: As \u00a0 a long time public health professional and advocate,<\/span> \u00a0 I request that you remove the incorrect information about abortion on the \u00a0 City’s publicly managed lamp posts on Market St. in San Francisco. As a \u00a0 public health professional,<\/span> I am shocked that \u00a0 these untruths are being spread on City managed banners.<\/span> As a former City public health worker, I was proud that I \u00a0 worked to support the health and well-being of families in the City; \u00a0 particular the health and well-being of girls and women. San Francisco DPH \u00a0 has always practiced what it preaches and support reproductive rights of \u00a0 women. Please take these banners with incorrect messages down today.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Larry<\/td>\n | Adelman<\/td>\n | Dear Mr. Mayor: I am a big believer in freedom of speech but not statements \u00a0 which are lies and can harm others. <\/span>For the City \u00a0 to allow banners on its property which are outright falsehoods about women is \u00a0 as alarming as it would be to see banners on City property promoting racist \u00a0 or anti-Semitic remarks. Further, the statement that “abortion hurts \u00a0 women” itself harms women. That’s not a public health message I believe \u00a0 you or our other City leaders wish to propagate. Please promote accurate and \u00a0 positive messages about reproductive health. Thank you. Larry Adelman<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Claudine<\/td>\n | Torfs<\/td>\n | Did you know that public health \u00a0 data show that maternal death from abortion are highest \u00a0 where abortion is forbidden<\/span>? Why? Because through \u00a0 all ages and in all countries, women do abort, either safely or unsafely. \u00a0 Abortion is and has has been done all over the world forever. It was even \u00a0 allowed by the Catholic church for the first semester of pregancy until the \u00a0 “ensoulment” –that is the time the church thought the \u00a0 “soul” of the embryo entered the fetus– until the 13th or so \u00a0 century. It is still the same rule for the present day Muslims until the \u00a0 “quickening” or “ensoulment”. Check it out. Use only \u00a0 scientific sources: they don’t lie or have a religious prejudice.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Virginia<\/td>\n | Anderson<\/td>\n | Don’t participate in sliding backward<\/span> regarding truth \u00a0 about reproductive health care services. In this era when many families with \u00a0 children are forced to live on the streets because they’re not able to \u00a0 provide decent lives for themselves and their children, it’s a troubling bent \u00a0 to support limits to reproductive rights. Are we raising a caste of slaves?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Dena<\/td>\n | Bergstrom<\/td>\n | Don’t tell women what to do with \u00a0 there bodies! Abortion is safe! I know!!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Yoana<\/td>\n | Corro<\/td>\n | Don’t treat women like children \u00a0 that can’t take the truth and don’t treat them like if they’re idiots and \u00a0 don’t know about their own body.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Dave<\/td>\n | Sweet<\/td>\n | Follow our lobby @USVetJOBs to \u00a0 help stop these government scams!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | z<\/td>\n | kastl<\/td>\n | Freedom of speech is not the \u00a0 issue when one is lying.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | steve<\/td>\n | heilig<\/td>\n | Hello – “Free speach” \u00a0 does have limits when lies and inflammatory language is involved. Plus these \u00a0 signs violate local policy. Thank you for your attention.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Ruby<\/td>\n | Kane<\/td>\n | Horrifying! I almost don’t \u00a0 believe it, it’s so outrageous.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | gene<\/td>\n | grabiner<\/td>\n | I am a former San Francisco \u00a0 resident, and i am appalled <\/span>at \u00a0 this anti-abortion disinformation campaign proliferating from lampposts in \u00a0 The City. These banners, with their <\/span>public lies \u00a0 and medical misinformation about the safety of abortion<\/span>, should immediately be taken down. I urge the Mayor of San \u00a0 Francisco to do right away.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Dr. \u00a0 Martha<\/td>\n | Lincoln<\/td>\n | I am a medical anthropologist \u00a0 and public health researcher residing in Oakland, California. San Francisco’s history as a progressive city supportive of \u00a0 gender freedom is dishonored<\/span> by the false and \u00a0 politically motivated message that “abortion hurts women.” What \u00a0 really hurts women is the limitation of their power to be informed and \u00a0 exercise their autonomy in choosing safe medical options.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Krishanti<\/td>\n | Dharmaraj<\/td>\n | I am deeply disturbed by this \u00a0 information. San Francisco became the first city in the \u00a0 United States to pass legislation on the United Nations Convention on the \u00a0 Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). <\/span>This legislation protects women’s right to family planning and \u00a0 reproductive freedom. The banners in San Francisco is counter to this \u00a0 legislation and women’s fundamental human rights. Please ensure women’s human \u00a0 rights in San Francisco by removing the banners. Thank you.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Diana<\/td>\n | Madoshi<\/td>\n | I am so shocked that a city that \u00a0 has been supportive of women’s right to choice would do such a thing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Licita<\/td>\n | Fernandez<\/td>\n | I believe that women should have \u00a0 the right to choose whether or not to have an abortion, and misinformation \u00a0 about the harm abortions do to women distorts the truth. Lies add another \u00a0 barrier to choice.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Lorraine<\/td>\n | Honig<\/td>\n | I do not believe the city should \u00a0 permit signs or banners which contain false information. Abortion should be a \u00a0 choice for women and there is no evidence to show that it hurts them<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Kathy<\/td>\n | Kramer<\/td>\n | I hope the City moves quickly to \u00a0 remove the offensive “Abortion Hurts Women” signs on Market Street. \u00a0 The message is incorrect, and inappropriate. (According \u00a0 to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, abortion is one \u00a0 of the safest medical procedures. The risk of death is 13 times higher for \u00a0 carrying a pregnancy to term, compared with abortion, in the U.S.<\/span>) It is also legal. A message like this does not belong on the | \nCity’s light posts.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Elaine<\/td>\n | Butler<\/td>\n | I remember \u00a0 when abortion was illegal<\/span> and it did hurt women \u00a0 when they were done under unsanitary conditions.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Carolyn<\/td>\n | Scarr<\/td>\n | I sign in honor and memory of my \u00a0 mother who was a Planned Parenthood volunteer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Helen<\/td>\n | Cagampang<\/td>\n | Illegal abortion hurts women. \u00a0 Even though rarely needed, access to legal and affordable abortion is an \u00a0 essential component of comprehensive women’s health care. The posters are \u00a0 deceptive and part of a propaganda campaign that undermines women’s health. They \u00a0 should be removed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Caryl<\/td>\n | Gorska<\/td>\n | ILLEGAL abortions hurt women. \u00a0 Keep abortion legal and safe!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Mary<\/td>\n | Swope<\/td>\n | I’m shocked.<\/span> How did hey go up in the first place?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Debbie<\/td>\n | Mytels<\/td>\n | It’s shocking<\/span> that the City of SF would put such provocative and untrue \u00a0 banners on public light posts!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Chris<\/td>\n | Coombe<\/td>\n | I’ve always been so proud of the \u00a0 Bay Area – my former home for over 25 years. How can the city allow this? \u00a0 Would you allow banners advertising “Gay Sex Hurts Men” or a \u00a0 “Walk for One-Man-One-Woman Marriage”??? Of course not. Shame on you!!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Charles<\/td>\n | Simons<\/td>\n | Just take ’em down<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Inge<\/td>\n | Horton<\/td>\n | Keep abortion legal!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Kathleen<\/td>\n | Kennedy<\/td>\n | Keep abortion safe, legal and \u00a0 accessible. Women’s lives depend on it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | paul<\/td>\n | page<\/td>\n | Keep advertisements out of \u00a0 public places.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Patricia<\/td>\n | Holcomb<\/td>\n | Keep womans health care safe….<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Linda<\/td>\n | Ray<\/td>\n | Lack of reproductive choice is \u00a0 what hurts women and girls who are old enough to become pregnant. Religious belief should not be announced as if it is medical \u00a0 information.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | James<\/td>\n | Paulson<\/td>\n | Mayor, Tell the truth….Stop \u00a0 spreading HATE…The reality is women and women only are to be the ones who control their own bodies<\/span>!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Hallie<\/td>\n | Chen<\/td>\n | OH MAN TAKE THESE DOWN ASAP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Leonore<\/td>\n | Tiefer<\/td>\n | Oh, for heaven’s sake – it’s \u00a0 2014!!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | M.L.<\/td>\n | Jones<\/td>\n | Please do not help in \u00a0 perpetuating these lies. The city regulations that require accurate \u00a0 information should not be violated. Thank you.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Caryl<\/td>\n | Hughan<\/td>\n | Please have signs removed. \u00a0 Abortion is a woman’s choice and “Abortion hurts women” is not a \u00a0 value position that SF should take. Many thanks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Alyse<\/td>\n | Ceirante<\/td>\n | Please remove the banners. They \u00a0 represent quite a significant step backwards for women’s rights. By allowing \u00a0 these banners to remain in place, it is as if the city is condoning the lie \u00a0 that is contained therein.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Jan<\/td>\n | Feldman<\/td>\n | Please stop giving access to \u00a0 your lamp posts to groups who want to post misleading or false statements.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Sofia<\/td>\n | Balderas<\/td>\n | Please stop the misinformation! \u00a0 What a shameful display<\/span> in a \u00a0 historically progressive city!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Marlene<\/td>\n | Aron<\/td>\n | Please take these banners down. \u00a0 They are lies and will scare young people who don’t know \u00a0 the difference. <\/span>Abortion does not “hurt \u00a0 women”. Abortion can be safely done. It is up to each woman, \u00a0 individually, to make the choice as to whether she wants to have a child. \u00a0 Take these banners down. They are lies and do not belong here. Marlene Aron<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Eva<\/td>\n | Pettersson<\/td>\n | Please, no lies on public \u00a0 places!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Michael<\/td>\n | Holland<\/td>\n | Promote the right message. \u00a0 Abortion is safe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Larisa<\/td>\n | Stevens<\/td>\n | Really San Francisco?!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Ann<\/td>\n | Hart<\/td>\n | Really? the forward thinking \u00a0 west coast is not supporting women’s right to choose? I thought only the \u00a0 midwest was backwards…please keep the west coast sane!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | RENAE<\/td>\n | TRAN<\/td>\n | remember GOVERNMENT, THIS IS MY \u00a0 CHOICE; NOT YOUR FREAKING CHOICE OK! ” FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE \u00a0 PEOPLE….OF THE PEOPLE!!”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Paula<\/td>\n | Carder<\/td>\n | San Fran, I \u00a0 thought you were BETTER than this<\/span>. Seriously. This \u00a0 is just shameful. Not having access to SAFE abortions, shaming women, flat \u00a0 out<\/span> LYING… THIS is what hurts women. <\/span>BOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Gail<\/td>\n | Xandy<\/td>\n | San Francisco is a beacon of \u00a0 light compared to Texas. Don’t let your light go out<\/span>!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Ellen<\/td>\n | Shaffer<\/td>\n | San Francisco should stand up \u00a0 for women’s rights.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Kate<\/td>\n | Holum<\/td>\n | San Francisco women will defend \u00a0 our rights to terminate pregnancy and control our own bodies. Forcing women \u00a0 to bear children is what causes suffering-to overburdened moms and neglected, \u00a0 unwanted kids.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Kathy<\/td>\n | Reed<\/td>\n | Shame<\/span> on the city for displaying a false message on publicly managed \u00a0 lamp posts! Take the message down now!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Deborah<\/td>\n | Chase<\/td>\n | Shameful!!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | sheila<\/td>\n | goldmacher<\/td>\n | shocking<\/span> to think that SF has allowed these lies to hang in its \u00a0 streets! remove them please on behalf of the truth and womens’ and girls’ \u00a0 lives.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Marti<\/td>\n | Smith<\/td>\n | Standing in solidarity with you \u00a0 from Sacramento.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Susan<\/td>\n | Stafford<\/td>\n | Stop spreading falsehoods about \u00a0 abortion and reproductive rights.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Nancy<\/td>\n | Shand<\/td>\n | Stop spreading lies!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Lisa<\/td>\n | Diehl<\/td>\n | Stop with the bullshit lies, and \u00a0 take the banners down. Why is abortion ANY of your business?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Lynne<\/td>\n | Averill<\/td>\n | TAKE DOWN THE BANNERS.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Renee<\/td>\n | Collins<\/td>\n | Tell the Truth.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Edith<\/td>\n | Bargoma<\/td>\n | That is a fear \u00a0 tactic<\/span> and it is not okay.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Andrea<\/td>\n | Jesse<\/td>\n | The “Abortion Hurts \u00a0 Women” campaign goes against San Francisco’s long tradition of liberty \u00a0 and progressive values.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Barbara<\/td>\n | Hokw<\/td>\n | The lies these banners tell are \u00a0 against public health policy and should be removed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Peter<\/td>\n | Van Coutren<\/td>\n | The Right to choose is the right \u00a0 to freedom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Leeza<\/td>\n | vinogradov<\/td>\n | The right wingers are just \u00a0 Non-Stop!!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Clare<\/td>\n | Feinson<\/td>\n | These banners must come down! \u00a0 They perpetuate statements that have been proven wrong by research! Their placement on governmental property<\/span> \u00a0 is questionable, at best. Women deserve support, not more harassment.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Clare<\/td>\n | Feinson<\/td>\n | These banners must come down! \u00a0 They perpetuate statements that have been proven wrong by research! Their \u00a0 placement on governmental property is questionable, at best. Women deserve \u00a0 support, not more harassment.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Sophia<\/td>\n | Yen MD MPH<\/td>\n | These lies are a public health \u00a0 hazard to any woman contemplating this procedure. 1 in 3 women will have this \u00a0 procedure in their life. Abortion is one of the safest procedures out there. \u00a0 Abortion is safer than continuing a pregnancy to term.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Margaret<\/td>\n | Spaulding<\/td>\n | These signs are absolutely outrageous.<\/span> It may be true that \u00a0 abortions hurt women; many things hurt women, including unwanted pregnancies, \u00a0 abuse, poverty, poor health and ignorance to name but a few. Women must have \u00a0 freedom to make choices about their health. TAKE DOWN THE SIGNS.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Kathryn<\/td>\n | Roberts<\/td>\n | This is hate \u00a0 speech<\/span> advocating that women be denied their right \u00a0 to reproductive health. It doesn’t belong anywhere.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Catherine<\/td>\n | Pinkas<\/td>\n | This is not an appropriate use \u00a0 on San Francisco public property<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Mary Beth<\/td>\n | Brown<\/td>\n | This is not the sort of propagada<\/span> I expect to see hanging \u00a0 from lampposts in The City! My city, the place of my birth, the place I am \u00a0 proud to say I’m from. Tax payer dollars should NOT be spent on displays of \u00a0 scientifically inaccurate propaganda. PLEASE remove these banners!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Claire<\/td>\n | Brindis<\/td>\n | This is the wrong message to \u00a0 give women…when it so distorts reality.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Elizabeth<\/td>\n | Krueger<\/td>\n | This on top of the obnoxious \u00a0 billboards is abhorrent.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Susan<\/td>\n | Jakubiak<\/td>\n | Unbelievable that those banners \u00a0 could be displayed on public property!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Melanie<\/td>\n | Grossman<\/td>\n | Unwanted pregnancies hurt women \u00a0 and illegal abortions have hurt women tremendously.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Helynna<\/td>\n | Brooke<\/td>\n | We wouldn’t allow the Klu Klux \u00a0 Clan to post signs so why these terroists?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | sadja<\/td>\n | Greenwood<\/td>\n | What hurts women and drives them \u00a0 to dangerous back-alley abortions is lack of reproductive choice.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Alex<\/td>\n | Pirie<\/td>\n | What?! On city property? What is \u00a0 happening to San Francisco? For shame.<\/span> Take them down now.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Sandra<\/td>\n | Schmaier<\/td>\n | Who paid for these banners? This \u00a0 is as bad as the banners that went on SF buses criminalizing Palestinians \u00a0 about a year ago…remember?. Who paid for these? Pro Life groups do not \u00a0 provide economic support for unwed mothers or daycare for career woman who \u00a0 accidentally get pregnant or woman are raped…..what is going on here? Once \u00a0 the water breaks they are no where to be found……how does that help woman?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Diane<\/td>\n | Fenster<\/td>\n | women have the right to choose \u00a0 for themselves.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Robin<\/td>\n | Brasso<\/td>\n | Women’s reproductive rights and \u00a0 the attempts by the right to control women’s bodies are based on fear and lies.<\/span> We will NOT allow \u00a0 these lies to be posted on banners on the streets of San Francisco. We will \u00a0 work to overturn the restrictive laws in the Republican held states. They \u00a0 will NOT be allowed to stand.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Susan<\/td>\n | Englander<\/td>\n | Would San Francisco fly banners \u00a0 that say Ed Lee is homophobic or San Francisco Police discriminate against \u00a0 women? Free speech may be our highest right but public policy also has a \u00a0 role.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Tina<\/td>\n | Ann<\/td>\n | you are my city- please \u00a0 represent all of us<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Lin<\/td>\n | Kaatz Chary<\/td>\n | You don’t have to live in San \u00a0 Francisco to be shocked and upset by these banners. I have lived in San \u00a0 Francisco and continue to have friends and family there – you can be sure \u00a0 they will be hearing from me about this! <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | Quotes from signers of the TWSR petition: See more\u00a0responses here: http:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/petition-abortion-rts-1-9-14-public.pdf Trust Women\/Silver Ribbon Campaign Petition: Lies About \u00a0 Abortion Hurt Women\u00a0 1-9-14 First Name Last Name Personal Message Betsy Eudey Accurate information and \u00a0 resources related to health is … Continue reading |