Talk:March for Women's Lives

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[edit] Counter-Protests

Several claims made concerning the "counter-protests" along Pennsylvania Avenue have been edited or removed, on the grounds that they were unsourced, ungrounded, or factually incorrect.

Unless there is a source that can be provided for the claim that there were "thousands" of counter-protesters, the claim should not be made; even Randall Terry claims only that "over a thousand" showed up. Other sources claim that there were more like 300. (Inflating what by all accounts is less than 2,000 participants to "thousands" is a standard trick of lazy press release writing; but a NPOV article should not engage in such tricks.)

The counter-protesters were not mainly dressed in black. The largest single contingent were Terry's "Operation Witness", who were wearing blue-and-yellow t-shirts.

The marchers were not "met by" the counter-protesters in any sense beyond them being within sight and shouting distance of each other. Counter-protesters were behind police barricades and those who crossed them were arrested.

I also note that every external source link I followed on this page led to pro-life websites. I have added some newsmedia sources and some reports from pro-choice writers and participants in the march in order to try to restore something vaguely resembling NPOV.

Radgeek 07:58, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Indecent exposure for topless protesters?

There were also several topless protesters, though there was no record of any indecent exposure arrests.[5]

As someone who has seen a lot of DC and has had DC see a lot of me, I don't really agree with the assessment that being topless in the District is indecent exposure. I don't recall the exact law, but I do believe that it's only a crime in DC if it is overtly sexual or if it is intentionally done in the presence of minors. I feel we should confirm that being topless is a crime (in a Puritan nation like the US, you never know) in DC before we have a wikipedia article point out that there weren't any arrests for it. Bugg42 23:36, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Counter Protesters and Exposure

Not much to add but I was all over this event all day and working for a major participant. Personally I saw less then 40 counter protesters and later a picture of one topless marcher who was painted any way. Why is it that most of the articles I read in Wikipedia sound like they were written by people that hate what they're writing about? It's almost like this tool is being used to rewrite history. I hope that either standards are modified or this is NEVER used as a legitimate source of information (no offense). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dividebyzero (talk • contribs) .