The Sign People& Pro-Life Protestors Come for the Free Soda, Stay for the Middle Fingers
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"It's nothing like what is happening in Nampa," says [Rory Williamson]. "There's no organized protest in Boise, and we don't engage with them." Unlike the Nampa protests, where both Generation Life and Idaho Chooses Life are heavily represented, the [Raymond Rodriguez] brothers choose not to display graphic images of aborted fetuses. Rather, they prefer their silent, non-interactive and almost unobtrusive form of protest.
With tensions increasing on both sides of the abortion debate, pro-lifers are changing the terms of the dialogue in their efforts to bully politicians anti-abortion legislation. Describing pro-lifers as "pro-aborts" and abortion clinics as "abortion mills" in the "abortion industry." One California-based organization with possible ties to Idaho goes so far as to equate abortion with the Holocaust. Survivors, an organization dedicated to promoting pro-life activism in high schools and on college campuses, describes anyone who was born after [Roe V. Wade] as a survivor of "the abortion holocaust" and alternates graphic photos of aborted fetuses with photos of corpses from Holocaust concentration camps in a promotional video on its Web site.After first moving to Boise, Rodriguez contacted several area pro-life groups to get involved, but no one returned his phone calls. By chance, he drove by Richardson's mall-area group one Sunday, where his enthusiasm was immediately well received. Out on last Sunday's picket line, the larger group fails to materialize and the Rodriguez brothers stand alone with their father and two signs in the afternoon wind. Holding a black sign with white letters reading "Abortion is Homicide" while [Ray, J.D.] holds a red octagonal sign reading simply "Stop Abortion," the pair is undeterred by the absence of the larger group.See the full content of this document
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The Sign People& Pro-Life Protestors Come for the Free Soda, Stay for the Middle Fingers
On Saturday afternoons, a stoic Raymond Rodriguez stands on the sidewalk between State Street and the back of Planned Parenthood's Boise clinic. In a neatly ironed button-down shirt tucked into black jeans, a black leather jacket and with a three-inch metal nail hanging from a rope on his neck, 21-year-old Rodriguez neither smiles nor verbally responds to passersby who honk and angrily thrust a rigid middle finger...
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