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There is a Planned Parenthood clinic across the street from the roxbury Safeway. PP does FAR more than just abortions – their mission is quite the opposite — it’s PLANNED parenthood, and it makes me cringe that someone would call it an abortion clinic. I would venture to guess that most folks are going to the clinic for other reasons — specifically access to low cost birth contol. I am all for free speech, but i wonder how many women, if any, who want to go to PP for birth control are steered away because of a protest — and then end up there anyway for the other reason? I have seen protestors there – they sit quietly on the other side of the street (on the safeway side) in chairs with their signs. Which provides me a great chance to talk to my daughters about 1) freedom of speech (even when we don’t agree) and 2) how women have fought over time for basic rights – including the right to make choices about their own bodies, and that there are people in this day in age who STILL want to take that right away.