by Pamela Whitehead, Project Coordinator, Check My Clinic
One of the resources that we at Check My Clinic offer to advocates who go and counsel women in front of the abortion facilities is Check My Clinic signs. These signs would coincide with the violations that you see for that facility on our website.
So the idea is that you would look at the facility where you advocate and you would look at what the violations are. You would choose a sign under our resources tab with printables that coincides with the violation that you see in that facility. Samples:
You send that graphic to your local print shop, and have it printed. I always recommend 36 by 24 because that’s pretty large. It can be seen from the street.
Once you have that sign printed, you would peacefully and silently stand in front of the facility, informing not only those who are entering, but also those who work at the facility. As well as the public driving by. So it’s an awareness campaign.
For places other than the centers themselves, there’s a lot of advantage to getting the information to people before they even show up. The designs can also be used at any rallies like the March for Life or the Women’s March. Especially in 2020, we have a lot of politicians vying for our votes. So those signs could get a lot of traction at a political rally.
In that case you need a sign that was more general rather than saying this clinic has this problem. So we have that. We have a sign that says “Look at this Website – We Dare You.
We also have printable postcards that can be handed out. They can be at a pregnancy center, or they could be at a college campus. You can put those anywhere in a café on a college campus.
On the front of the card it says what you don’t know could hurt you, and then on the back it says an informed woman is an empowered woman. Then it gives the information about what Check My Clinic is and what we offer on the site.
It’s nonjudgmental, it’s informational. What we’re offering is facts. It’s just the facts of what the state has found inside these facilities.
We feel like every woman, every person, every citizen needs to know.
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