Hi all,

Wow, it has been amazing to see the number of attendees grow day by day. It is inspiring and empowering to see people come together to stand up for Reproductive Rights.  This is our opportunity to show the country that we will not remain quiet in response to these unprecedented attacks on women. While many of us are angry and frustrated, we want to follow the example of those across the world that are making their voices heard to their governments in a constructive, peaceful way. 

We want to make this event empowering and supportive and in that vein ensure that the tone stays upbeat and non-threatening.  Another reason that we want to ensure this tone is because we fully expect that there will be counter-protesters, and we want to make sure that we do not engage with them nor become sidetracked from our message. We will not be able to change these counter-protesters views and their goal is to engage and anger us, so channel your inner strength and don?t let them win- just move forward with our message.

Here are some details that might be helpful for Saturday:

Parking

There is parking all around Lake Merritt and Lakeside Park. There is pay-for street parking near the shops. We would suggest you try and take AC Transit?lines 57 and the NL are the major lines that run by the front of the Lake, but we advise using tripplanner.transit.511.og to plan your route through public transit. Lake Merritt also has a BART stop.

We will start at 12pm and end at 2:30/3pm 

Walk Route

Start here:

We will have about 50 minutes of speakers! Lots of letters from politicians—like Rep. Jackie Speier. Though she is not able to make it, she is sending a constituent to read on her behalf.

This is our midway point! Lakeside Park. 

This is where the restrooms are at following the midway point!

Here is our ending point! There will be spoken word performed, photos, facepainting, etc.  

Sign ideas

• We have a voice, we have a choice!        
• Eliminating Title X= Will cost tax payers more $
• Don?t take away my breast cancer screenings
• Don?t take away my Birth Control
• Title X Saves Lives
• Family planning = saves $

Chant Ideas

• Hey, Congress, let them be Planned Parenthood was there for me!
• We Have A Voice, We Have A Choice!
• Walk and Roll, Walk and Roll!
• Keep Your Rosaries off my Ovaries!
• They Say ?No Choice? we say ?Pro-Choice?

What to bring?

• An orange shirt, or whatever else you have that is orange (this is the theme color)
• Umbrella
• Sunscreen
• Sunglasses
• Jacket
• Water
• Signs

stfuconservatives:

walkforchoicelosangeles:

Today we have over 90 people who RSVP’d as ‘attending’ on the Walk for Choice Los Angeles Facebook event page!

This is rad, but it seriously is not enough. We’ve gotta get the lead out because this is going down in nine days whether you show up or not, but obviously we’d prefer that you do.

It’s up to 114 for the Yeses. Please RSVP for LA or your city!

We’re at 60 for the Bay Area walk! 72 ‘maybe’ attending! Let’s get out there and walk for our rights!! 

Spread the word to friends you know in other cities with walks! 

Hey all! My name is Rachel and I’m one of the organizers for Walk for Choice, Bay Area. 

I wanted to share my personal experience with abortion and why women having a choice is important to me. My wonderful, beautiful, and amazing mother had to have an abortion before me. She was pregnant, but the fetus was growing completely wrong, and it would have comprised my mom’s life. She had to make the difficult choice to terminate her pregnancy to save her own life. 

If HR3 passes, and had my mom been in that position today, she would have died along with her potential baby. HR3’s provisions would have stopped my mother from aborting the fetus because there would be no federal funding to pay for her abortion—even if she already has insurance. And if my mom would have died, she wouldn’t have given birth to me or my little sister, and the world would be missing some incredibly awesome beings. 

There are a ton of reasons why women have abortions—we, of course, as Pro-Choicers, understand this. No reason is better or more justified than any other reason, and being pro-Choice does not make us Pro-Abortion. My mom obviously was not aiming for an abortion when she got pregnant, and neither does any other woman who has sex or is raped. We need to leave the option open for all women under all circumstances. 

Here is the bill for you to read! 

WALK FOR CHOICE BAY AREA TWITTER ACCOUNT