{"id":212,"date":"2013-02-18T23:23:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2013-02-19T18:52:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:52:34","slug":"the-clash-of-the-simultaneous-pro-and-anti-abortion-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"The Clash of the Simultaneous Pro- and Anti- Abortion Rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Protesters\"<\/a>
“Abortion on Demand & Without Apology” Protesters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On our first anniversary day (1\/26\/2013), Doc<\/a> and I meandered about the Financial District in the early-ish morning.\u00a0 As we passed more and more of the SOMA hotels, we saw more and more people emerging with anti-abortion signs.<\/p>\n

“Welcome to San Francisco,” one of them sneered, “pro-choice city. The hypocrites!” It soon became obvious that a large group had flown into San Francisco to host an anti-abortion rally.<\/p>\n

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Eventually we came upon that spot with the Forever 21, the GAP, and that trolley stop at about 2 Stockton Street. This is where the anti-abortion rally was taking place. It didn’t take long for a layer of pro-abortion protesters to react and form around the anti-abortion rally. And not long at all for a layer of photographers to form around the two layers, hoping to shoot some shit going down.<\/p>\n

The anti-abortionists had set up a large screen TV showing photographs of dead fetuses, and had a large speaker system set up. I’m still not sure which group this was. Several of their number wore shirts which read “Abortion Abolitionist.” So maybe that’s their group’s name.<\/p>\n

So of course we entered the fray, and took lots and lots of photos! Please enjoy.<\/p>\n

I’ve noticed that I may have introduced a bias in what I documented at the event. Well, I didn’t want graphic surgical photos showing up on my anniversary-day photos, did I?<\/p>\n

All shots on ISO 400 TRI-X film, with my Lomography LC-A. Developed myself in the Noisebridge darkroom.<\/p>\n

\"Troy's<\/a>
Cops at the rally. Also, Troy’s mouth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"\"<\/a>
“Separation of Church and State” Protesters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Photographers<\/a>
But who photographs the photographers? The two women in the center are reacting to the widescreen display of graphic surgical photos. I like how different the two reactions are.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Cops<\/a>
Cops setting up barricades<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Abortion<\/a>
This self-described “Abortion Abolitionist” was eager to speak with passers-by.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On our first anniversary day (1\/26\/2013), Doc and I meandered about the Financial District in the early-ish morning.\u00a0 As we passed more and more of the SOMA hotels, we saw more and more people emerging with anti-abortion signs. “Welcome to San Francisco,” one of them sneered, “pro-choice city. The hypocrites!” It soon became obvious that … Continue reading “The Clash of the Simultaneous Pro- and Anti- Abortion Rallies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,39],"tags":[113,116,76,117,115,114,118],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-photography","tag-abortion","tag-cops","tag-feminism-2","tag-police","tag-protesters","tag-rally","tag-womens-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}