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Anti-abortion activists are nearly halfway through a 40 day 24-hour campaign to picket all the Planned Parenthood clinics in the country. They are not actually able to target every single clinic, or even gather that many protesters in all locations. But outside the many clinics where they have, they are successfully terrorizing young women for visiting clinics where they receive medical treatment, sexual health advice, birth control, and abortions.

Planned Parenthood has responded with a quite creative campaign – a blog titled I am Emily X, “the true life diary of a frontline Planned Parenthood worker and activist”. Emily X describes her work day, and interviews colleagues who work with her on video. You can pledge to donate x number of cents per anti-abortion protester she counts on her way to work.

I can’t imagine how awful it must be to be shouted at and harassed for being a doctor at one of these clinics or a patient seeking treatment. I always thought it was bad enough that they make you walk through a metal detectors to even get into the clinics in New York. It’s hard to believe this stuff still goes on the in the United States, and very depressing that even one doctor interviewed for the blog doesn’t feel she can show her face. We need to stand up for everyone’s right to chose when and with whom they have babies.

As I’ve written previously (here and here), women’s rights worldwide are under constant attack from the manipulative and misguided anti-abortion activists in this country. Please support Planned Parenthood if you can.