{"id":736,"date":"2018-01-10T20:32:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T02:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2018-01-10T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T02:38:09","slug":"march-abortion-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/10\/march-abortion-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"March for Abortion Rights!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Protest vs. &#8220;March for Life&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1:30 pm, Sunday, January 14<br \/>\n219 S. Dearborn Street<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/504025866631297\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/36f810fd-4845-4e1d-be3e-d2f5f138dadf.jpg\" data-file-id=\"1582409\" width=\"440\" height=\"236\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Each January, right-wing, anti-choice bigots from around the Midwest are bused into Chicago for the so-called &#8220;March for Life&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>** There is nothing &#8220;pro-life&#8221; about these people &#8211; they don&#8217;t care about babies once they&#8217;re born, they&#8217;re pro-gun, pro-war, and pro-Trump.<\/p>\n<p>** They want to ban contraception and comprehensive sex ed. They don&#8217;t care that black women are drastically more likely to die in childbirth than white women.<\/p>\n<p>** They&#8217;re perfectly happy to see funding cut for programs that serve disabled infants, children, and adults. They don&#8217;t care that folks across America are suffering from lead poisoning and treatable diseases.<\/p>\n<p>** They don&#8217;t care that folks across America are getting murdered by police. They don&#8217;t care that trans folks, people of color, and sex workers are getting murdered every day. They don&#8217;t care that folks around the world are being killed by American bombs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For these reasons and more, we call them not &#8220;pro-life&#8221;, but &#8220;pro-lie&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us on&nbsp;<strong>Sunday, January 14 at 1:30 pm<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;to show them that Chicago is pro-choice.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll gather across the street from Federal Plaza in front of the Dirksen Federal Building for a rally and speak-out, followed by a short march through the streets of downtown Chicago and a rally at the end of the route. We&#8217;ll be done by 3pm. Bring signs, bring banners, wear your Handmaid outfit if you have one (but be prepared for cold weather). Be prepared to be LOUD.<\/p>\n<p>***This is a queer\/trans-inclusive, anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-fascist event. If you have a problem with trans people, stay home***<\/p>\n<p>#ProChoiceChicago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protest vs. &#8220;March for Life&#8221; 1:30 pm, Sunday, January 14 219 S. Dearborn Street Each January, right-wing, anti-choice bigots from around the Midwest are bused into Chicago for the so-called <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/10\/march-abortion-rights\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,101],"tags":[94,69,89],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abortion","category-womens-rights","tag-abortion-rights","tag-religious-right","tag-womens-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}