Yes sir, so proud of my now hometown.
That's you, Kansas City.
There was a rather hastily put-together protest and march today at the Country Club Plaza. It began at Mill Creek Park, went for a protest march around the Plaza and then back to the park for some speeches.
It was to protest for women's and abortion rights, rightly, after the nightmare week in Jefferson City on the part of yet more Right Wing, mostly all white, Republican men who voted to limit even the possibility of an abortion after 8 weeks of pregnancy.
Forget all the medical facts like how difficult it is to know a woman is actually pregnant in the first few weeks after conception and all the other facts. Yeah, forget all that. Forget that theirs is supposed to be a "small government" political party. Forget all that. They want to have that government come between the patient, the female patient and her doctor.
It's not quite as bad as Alabama's draconian law they passed this week but it's right up there.
So a protest was planned and executed today and it was a beauty. I knew I had to be there. It's estimated 4,000 people showed. And they were boisterous. Herewith, some photos from the day. It was wondrous.
Some of the posters were a bit more, uh, frank, shall we say?
As I said, it was a very good sized crowd. I think we were all very, very pleased with the turnout and energy.
Some people wrote on the sidewalks, too, for a protest that would last a bit longer than just the time we were there.
But again, facts and data and scientific studies mean little to these people. It's the same on this topic, abortion, as it is with guns and gun laws. Facts just don't matter.
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