And i have to say that i learned a lot from watching her in action because she has truly done everything we can to solve the problem at hand. After several starts, many false starts and stops, very frustrating process, because of adrians persistence, her tenacity, we were able to pass legislation that was unanimously approved by this board that created a 25foot buffer zone around the planned Parenthood Health clinic that not only protects the patients, the women that are trying to seek and get Reproductive Health services from planned parenthood, but also protects the workers who on a daily basis risk themselves and protects them from the bullying, the harassment and intimidation that these antichoice extremists are engaging in. Without adrians tenacity, advocacy, we know that the rights of so many women would have been trampled upon, that they would not have had access to basic help. And the thing that bugs me the most about these types of protesters is that they always go to the neig
Harassment, without being bullied and allowing them to access the health care that they deserve. So, thank you very much for that. As supervisor campos mentioned, i mean, i just want everyone to sit back for just a minute and just imagine yourself as a young woman coming to the planned Parenthood Health center on valencia street. You come, youre approaching, youre coming in for your birth control, your cancer screening, your breast exam, and as you approach, theres a large truck covered in flags, huge 8foot tall posters with fake bloody fetus he. As you get closer, the music is blasting. Youre being videotaped. You walk through a gauntlet of people and then a strange man with a 10foot cross of 2 by 4s comes running at you screaming not to kill your baby. And then as you walk through the front door, a person shoves pamphlet in your face, giving you medical misinformation and saying, if you could talk, mom my, dont kill me. This isnt texas, its San Francisco. And its the leadership of su
Covered in flags, huge 8foot tall posters with fake bloody fetus he. As you get closer, the music is blasting. Youre being videotaped. You walk through a gauntlet of people and then a strange man with a 10foot cross of 2 by 4s comes running at you screaming not to kill your baby. And then as you walk through the front door, a person shoves pamphlet in your face, giving you medical misinformation and saying, if you could talk, mom my, dont kill me. This isnt texas, its San Francisco. And its the leadership of supervisor campos and his amazing staff, shelly rhone an and Stephanie Ashley that brought us through to where we are today ~ and i thank you so much for that. I also want to thank my colleague david trujillo. Youre amazing, could not have done this without you, thank you, i love it. And i just want to say whats really important to me is i accept this honor really on behalf of the women coming to our Health Center and our partners that are so brave to come into those into our Healt