Welcome to Litsy!

I read Dr. Susan Wicklund‘s book which was terrifying, and this was too. As a clinic escort, I can tell you that everything in this book is real. It‘s unthinkable that these things happen, but they do. And we need to talk about it. Someone has to stand up to these bullies! This doesn‘t happen within any other medical care. The exam room is too small for all this foolishness, don‘t you think?

Shown: pink vest heroes v bullies

Chapter 10: why do providers continue? I‘ll tell you why I do it. I have to. We, have to. It shouldn‘t be this hard, this scary—just to get healthcare! Bodies are not a home for religion or politics. There is no freedom without reproductive freedom! I escort patients every weekend and face the antis head on so they don‘t have to. We can never go back to the way it used to be. Never.

Shown: election results just came in and we were 😃

Chapters 8-9 discuss legal response and reform. What can we do? We can...pass the ERA. Pass the Equality Act. Pass the Women‘s Health Protection Act. Rewrite the Constitution...with intersectionality! I could go on, but these are some of the really big things that can be done. Oh yeah, you might have heard of this thing called empathy, too.

Shown: clinic defense allies

Calvin believes that the police where he works are unresponsive because they personally hold anti-abortion beliefs. He feels judged by them; the politics prevent them from responding appropriately. They feel they have more important business than responding to concerns and that “until something bad happens to us, they‘re not going to do anything.”

In my experience, this is ACCURATE. Shown: regular protestor caused trouble recently.

“I get worried about some of the people around here. There are some strange characters that lurk at the front gate. I don‘t know what they‘re capable of.”

Shown: Halloween 2020...6 proud boys showed up at our clinic. We believe one of our regular protestors asked them to be there. This is not okay.

When a priest called him a murderer, Rodney responded by calling the priest a child molester. When protesters told Rodney they were praying for him, he responded, “You mean you‘re preying upon us. There‘s a difference.”

Shown: pedo priest. See that van? Green shirt: David, who actually said that 10 year old little girls are willingly having sex. This is the same guy who also talks about legalizing rape.

They talk about it, it wasn‘t like a big deal, and nobody fears the judgment from other people that happens in America. So when I got here I was flabbergasted. Oh, wow, people actually care too much about the stuff going on in other people‘s lives. To the point that your life could be in danger.

Shown: ‘Speed Bump‘ hanging on to the fence, trying to harass a patient. GTFOH! 🙄🖕🏻🧟‍♂️

“...they tried to let me know that if they controlled the thermostat of hell, my position there would be a little hotter.”

Litsy, meet Will, aka Turtle Man. He‘s always telling me that hell is real, it‘s hot, and that I‘m going there, I better repent! Okay buddy! SURE🔥👹🔥🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

If anybody told me when I was in medical school that I would go to work armed and with a bullet proof vest, I would have thought they were nuts. But I do have a bulletproof vest, and I do go to clinics armed these days. —Kevin Bohannon

I can‘t carry. But I wear the stingy spray around my neck just in case. You just never know...especially when they follow you to your car.

The ones that I do worry the most about are the older people who I don‘t recognize, the ones who don‘t seem to be fraternizing with the other people. They‘re not handing out pamphlets. They‘re just kind of standing off by themselves. Those are the ones that I‘ve always been the most concerned about because you don‘t know what those people are capable of doing.

As a clinic escort, believe me when I tell you that NONE of them are harmless. 🆘🚩

“It gets to be normal after a while. It‘s like you‘re used to this insanity. Other people have to remind you that this is not normal. That living like this, dealing with these things day in and day out, it‘s not normal. Normal people don‘t do this.”

CAN I GET AN AMEN ON THAT???!!!💯💯💯

When a protestor tells you that birth control pills are thrown into the water and that the result is that it makes fish and peoplx gay

WHAT

Serious, I‘m not fucking kidding! This l e g i t happened!!!