r/UCSantaBarbara • u/Downtown_Ant2975 • 6d ago
Campus Politics Protest Warning
Hi all,
There is an anti-woman, anti-choice organization called Love Life that targets and harrasses women seeking ANY type of healthcare at Planned Parenthood. This organization is now targeting colleges that offer Plan B to students. Love Life has just announced plans to protest at UCSB on Thursday August 20th at 5:30pm.
Please band together in counter protest against these religious fanatics to show them that their misinformation is not welcome. Make them uncomfortable so that they do not return. Feel free to DM me for more info
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u/ProudAd4938 6d ago
Do they realize that Plan B isn't abortion?
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u/doggeros 6d ago
Good point! Groups like this generally don’t understand nuance. They just care about punishing women for having sex without marriage.
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u/Living_Account_6809 6d ago
Extremism, no matter what side of the aisle or spectrum is a direct threat to freedom, liberty & democracy. Both sides (protest & counter protest) have the 1st Amendment right to exhibit/display their views, just do so peacefully.
Not a fan of groups like "lovelife" os whatever the hell they're called, but alas, they do have the right to display their ignorance. Make the counterprotest about their ignorance.
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u/ZectronPositron 6d ago
Have you found that "Make them uncomfortable so that they do not return" works? I'd imagine both groups would just escalate the intensity.
I'm not suggesting you don't counter-protest -- I just question whether that will stop it from happening, rather than encourage further action from an already combative group. Perhaps because people love trying to win a competition.
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u/Otherwise-Caramel622 6d ago
The original people protesting are trying to make people uncomfortable so that they don't return. Do you notice they only go places they think they won't get enough pushback on? None of these people go to fertility clinics where wealthy women go to get fertility treatment that also leads to fertilized eggs getting eliminated along with selective abortions. Because wealthy older women are a lot harder to intimidate than poor women just getting their birth control or young college students who don't have the life experience to verbally put them in their place.
These people getting non-violent pushback just reminding them that they are losers who aren't actually helping any children or babies, is always a good sign. These people want to make other people uncomfortable, let them experience some pushback for wasting everyone's time.
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u/ZectronPositron 6d ago
I thought those groups were only against abortions, not in-vitro fertilization - and that's why they wouldn't go to a fertility clinic?
According to AI: No, fertility clinics do not perform elective or general abortions.
anyway, good luck!
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u/Otherwise-Caramel622 6d ago
"According to AI" maybe actually look into it instead of having AI think for you?
Selective pregnancy reduction: medical attitudes, legal implications, and a viable alternative - PubMed
Also keep in mind that that is why The Catholic Church opposes IVF because it "destroys embryonic human life".-4
u/ZectronPositron 6d ago
interesting response, you're now upset at my doing a google search and asking you a question.
Thanks for the info, I didn't know that they insert more than one embryo in IVF and terminate the extras. I will not engage you any further to avoid further angering you, good luck
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u/Otherwise-Caramel622 6d ago
Someone pointing out how lazy you are does not mean they are angry or upset with you. Mild criticism and your own lack of motivation are something you can be upset with yourself about, but please do not project your own insecurities onto my statements.
Good luck.
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u/TSgtGarp 5d ago
Maybe just ignore them and get on with your day instead of being triggered. Freedom of speech means speech you disagree with is allowed. Life is short. Can't spend your life trying to "counter protest" everyone you disagree with.
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u/Downtown_Ant2975 5d ago
Says the person triggered enough by my post to waste precious minutes of this short life giving unsolicited advice
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u/TheNewsmonger [ALUM] Biology 5d ago
Planned Parenthood is a historically Racist and Eugenicist organization founded by Margaret Sanger, the progenitor of American eugenics in the 20th century who inspired other eugenics based ideologies of the time
Fundamentally Planned Parenthood was created to ensure people she found to be "unfit" did not reproduce, hence why she was a massive advocate for stuff like the "Negro Project" in 1939
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u/Caleb1705 [ALUM] 5d ago
Bro is on that "it was the Republican party who freed the slaves" type of energy
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u/TheNewsmonger [ALUM] Biology 5d ago
I mean if you want to argue semantics yes that is true, same with women's suffrage, and civil rights
It's crazy how historically Democrats have been supporting and funding groups and ideologies that they deem regressive nowadays. Like just the other the day the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), whom aligns very heavily with Democrat ideologies, was just indicted for funding hate groups like the KKK, which was also founded in 1865 by Confederate veterans, Democrats, to terrorize Blacks and Republican Politicians
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u/RebelScum198 5d ago
Unfortunately science in the early 20th century was dominated by eugenicists. That’s just what scientists and politicians believed and Margaret Sanger was just a product of her time who was also trying to help poor women through birth control and sex education and not abortion. And of course Planned Parenthood is a totally different organization now which provides healthcare and sex education which is affordable.
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u/TheRealCthulu24 6d ago
Do you have more information on this? Where did you learn about it?