Starting Saturday, anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights groups will converge in Germantown, once again making the sleepy, suburban community the focal point for the broader abortion debate.
At the center is late-term abortion provider Dr. LeRoy Carhart, whose office has drawn the attention of abortion and pro-choice advocates ever since , when Carhart announced his plans to leave Nebraska and open a practice in Germantown.
Anti-abortion protestors with Operation Rescue and Maryland Coalition for Life group have planned to launch on Saturday, what it’s calling the Summer of Mercy 2.0, a week of prayer vigils, speakers and rallying scheduled through Sunday, Aug. 7, according to the group’s website.
Pro-abortion rights supporters, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, plans to stage its own rallies— Summer of Celebration of Choice, which begins with a walk Sunday, July 31, and events scheduled throughout the week, though the organization has said on its website that it is not intended to be a counter protest.
There have been anti-abortion protests in Germantown ever since Carhart established his office, including a in January, whose timing was meant to coincide with the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 court ruling that made abortion legal in the United States.
Anti-abortion groups argue that Maryland has become a safe haven for abortion and have across the street from Carhart’s, Patch has reported. Operation Rescue has also filed a complaint against Carhart with the Maryland Board of Physicians in April. When reached by Patch, a spokesperson with the Maryland Board of Physicians would not comment.
In his first extensive interview since he started working in Germantown, Carhart told The Washington Post that an attorney was handling the complaint. He also said in the article that he planned to expand his services to include adoption counseling, HIV/AIDS screening and preventative health services for lesbians, gay men and people who are transgender.
What kind of parent cannot see the ridiculous irony of your post preaching of "compassion for kids," when your heart seems untouched by any compassion for the INNOCENT LIVES taken--some 50 million of them since Roe--before they even take their first breath outside the womb?
For instance, in CT alone, cities like New "Haven" and Hartford and Bridgeport have very busy and PROFITABLE abortuaries operated by Planned *Un-Parenthood* and other businesses.
I am against abortion being *used as birth control*!! You evidently are not. As to adoption, I am one of millions of married women who had wanted to adopt a baby, but they are almost never available (in the U.S.) to adopt BECAUSE the young unmarried girls and women get WELFARE to *keep the babies* instead of making adoption plans for them!! That government SUBSIDY of dependency upon *government* as "DADDY" is the REAL problem!! I KNOW--my husband and I have been licensed foster parents, through the state.
I am pro-life for myself and pro-choice for others. I have enough to contend with in my own life than to take on a cause that's truly about someone's personal decision.
Do you believe in honesty for you, but it's okay for others to lie and steal? Do you believe in faithfulness to your husband, but it's okay for him to "get some" on the side?
It is duly noted that you are unable to answer very pertinent questions about life, moral values, integrity and principle. But have a nice day!
I refuse to drive this road because of the inflammatory and provocative photos that are posted up and down the road. As mentioned by someone else I drove down this road with my children and had to ask them to look away as we discussed what was there. The overtones and comments about women going on welfare to have kids is absurd,. Honestly, do you believe the trash you spew. I love those who are "moral and spiritual" people who are intolerant and overtly aggressive towards those with differing opinions. While I am not for abortion, I am for people making their own decisions about their bodies.
Is there anything that can be done on legislative level to allow people to have a morning drive to work without being subjected to this ??
compelled to show them. As for unwanted children, I think it's fair for the child to have a say in whether he or she wants to live or die-- do I want to be brutally injected with a lethal drug to stop my heart and dismembered when I can feel the pain or do I want to live even if it may not be an easy life? If you ask that question to an adult, we will most likely go with life over being dismembered, even if we won't feel loved at times. And yes, a woman's body holds the baby, but does that make it only her choice? Why should one life and one woman's choice completely trump another life (who will also possibly grow up to be a woman)? These questions should haunt us, because this isn't just about politics or a theoretical debate, this is about life or death for a person, and oftentimes that death is painful.
They are going after this right like other rights because the world capitalist system is in crisis. More and more the capitalists demand that workers do as told and work under any conditions and pay as their employer sees fit.