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The months-long protests and counter-protests outside American Family Planning Clinic have come to an end, with businesses up and down Village Oaks Drive signing trespass orders.
“We’re happy about this,” said Allison, who declined to give a last name. She is one of the counter-protesters who have been out nearly every weekend in front of the clinic to help shield clients from abortion protesters.
Protesters have always been a common sight outside the American Family Planning Pensacola’s only abortion clinic. But in December, a clinic staff member reached out on a local Facebook group asking for volunteers to help escort patients as protesters were harder to ignore.
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With COVID cases on the rise in Northwest Florida, the Pensacola chapter of Women s March Florida decided to host the 2021 event virtually bringing in speakers from across the state on Saturday, Jan. 23.
This year’s Women’s March comes four years after the initial event was organized in D.C. as a response to the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Now, this year there’s a new administration in the White House. But, Women s March Pensacola President Allison Ferreira says they’ll be organizing for the same issues as before.
“(It’s) still a pivotal moment in society as a whole with women’s rights, she said. We’re going to continue to show this administration, we’re not going to back down from maintaining and progressing women’s rights. It’s not a Democratic or Republican agenda, it’s a human rights agenda. We’re going to continue to hold any and all establishments accountable.”
Pensacola fights anti-abortion terror
Occupied Muscogee Creek land Pensacola, Fla.
A group of activists, organizers and those in support of reproductive justice held Dec. 27 and Jan. 2 demonstrations at American Family Planning, a reproductive health clinic that provides abortion. The community gathered to oppose anti-abortion reactionaries, who have been terrorizing clinic workers, nurses and patients every day.
These reactionaries, calling themselves “Abortion Abolitionists,” stand outside of the clinic, barely off the property, holding up photoshopped signs of supposedly aborted fetuses, advertisements for phony “abortion reversal pills” and grotesque anti-Black images of enslaved people comparing them and the entire history of African slavery to aborted fetuses. This ignores the fact that it was forced pregnancy and reproduction by rape that white-enslaver plantation owners used to make obscene profits from the very bodies of Black women.