| Our History of Defending Women's Rights |
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| Life and Liberty
for Women will courageously engage in counter-demonstrations,
displaying on the street corner graphic sights of
illegal abortion - challenging anti-abortion individuals
with the reality of illegal abortion that they have
- up to now - been successful at ignoring. They
aren't shy about displaying their graphic pictures
of allegedly aborted fetuses
and we can no longer be shy about displaying - on
the street corner - the sights of the consequences
of illegal abortion. |
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28th Anniversary of Roe -vs- Wade in Fort
Collins, Colorado January 2001
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| Anti-abortion extremists gathered
inside this local Fort Collins, Colorado church
to protest the 28th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. |
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| Board member Julie Maslowski and Life
and Liberty for Women's founder and executive
director, Peggy Loonan stand in the freezing cold
with one of LLW's graphic pictures of illegal abortion
- Her name was Gerri. She died in 1964 - the way
most women died before Roe vs. Wade - from a self-induced
illegal abortion. |
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| Two gentlemen came out of the church
and approached Julie and Peggy. They said they would
be coming out with their children shortly to march
to downtown Fort Collins, and they asked Peggy and
Julie to cover their graphic |
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parents could steer their children away from the
picture or explain it to them. |
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Halloween Hell House in Arvada, Colorado
October 12, 2001
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In October Life
and Liberty for Women led a protest at what has
been commonly called in Colorado "The Halloween Hell House."
It is a "haunted house" of sorts that graphically depicts
the "sin" of being gay and the "sin" of abortion among
others. Life and Liberty for Women were at the "Abundant
Life Christian Center" at 7100 Wadsworth Blvd. in Arvada
Colorado, a western suburb of Denver for 13 days and what
an experience it was!! |
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| Board member Julie
Maslowski and founder and executive director, Peggy Loonan
were out on the first night, Friday October 12, with a
young local high school student. They were immediately
approached by two older male teens from the church. These
male teens proceeded to hold a couple of Peggy and Julie's
signs and pictures for them while they "preached" at Peggy
and Julie and tried to engage them. |
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This was a silent
protest and after exchanging a few niceties, Peggy and
Julie declined to engage them. At one point they stood
in front of Peggy and Julie's signs but stopped when they
were asked to. While Peggy and the young teen woman chatted,
one of the teen boys stood as close as one can without
being intimate and held one of his graphic brochures in
front of Peggy and the young teen girl. |
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| On the Friday, October 19, many
other volunteers joined Peggy and Julie and this night
those two teenage boys returned along with some others
from the church. These teenage boys were allowed and or
sent by parents and the church leadership to harass and
attempt to engage in conversation Life
and Liberty for Women's volunteers. These teens
stepped in front of the protesters signs until they were
standing in a lane of traffic on Wadsworth Blvd., a six-lane
highway. When police arrived they said they couldn't tell
the protesters or the teens where to stand and if the
teens were injured that was their choice. |
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Unbelievable!!
Peggy wrote a letter to the editor to the local Arvada
Sentinel Newspaper (see: "They Said.We Say.) criticizing
parents and the church for allowing minors out there unsupervised.
The danger they placed themselves in and Life
and Liberty for Women's volunteers was inexcusable
from those who champion "parental rights" and parental
consent for abortion, don't you think? They believe that
every conceived child must be born and then they send
them out alone to harass abortion rights supporters, go
figure!! |
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| On Friday October 26, Peggy
and several volunteers were approached this evening by
a drunk 60's biker who proceeded to walk over their signs
that were lying on the ground. He was vulgar and threatening.
Life and Liberty for Women's
volunteers began to videotape the man while Peggy called
police but the man retreated into the church before police
arrived. When the police arrived so did some individuals
from the local press. That brought out individuals from
the church, several |
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| dressed as the devil - they were the
tour guides for the "haunted house." They chanted
and got in front of Life and
Liberty for Women's video camera until police
asked them to disperse. |
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| An hour or so later, this 200lb biker
returned with a 300lb friend and once again began
harassing and threatening Life
and Liberty for Women volunteers. Though
called again, police never responded a second time.
Instead, Peggy stepped between this man and her
volunteers, while his buddy looked on and |
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| Peggy and the volunteers tried to
calm him down. Eventually they were able to calm
the intruder down and he left. |
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| The protest was a great success and
many Life and Liberty for Women
volunteers turned out! Other organizations also
joined Life and Liberty for Women,
including CSU NARAL and Freethought of Colorado.
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| Life and Liberty
for Women wishes to say thank you to all
the volunteers who participated and the organizations
who joined us. |
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Thank You
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| Save these dates for 2003 Life
and Liberty for Women protests |
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| We will be counterdemonstrating
at the anti-abortion Roe vs. Wade anniversary event
in 2003 at the Denver Capitol Building on the east
side of Lincoln Street from 1-3pm. |
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For more information or to sign up
to be a part of our protests:
email protests@lifeandlibertyforwomen.org
or call 970-416-6872 |
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