{"id":197862,"date":"2019-03-06T00:44:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T06:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=197862"},"modified":"2019-03-07T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T21:03:08","slug":"city-council-ok-turn-backs-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/city-council-ok-turn-backs-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"City council members in OK turn backs to citizen speaking about abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two female city council members in Norman, Oklahoma, have made the news for their decision to — quite literally — turn their backs on a citizen who addressed the council<\/a> asking that they do something to save preborn children from abortion in Norman. The two members, Kate Bierman and Alexandra Scott, turned their chairs around to face the back wall while Shane Dodson, who said he had addressed the council before regarding abortion, pleaded with the council to recognize Roe v. Wade<\/em> as an unjust law (which he compared to other unjust laws that have perpetrated human injustices in American history).<\/p>\n

Council member Robert Castleberry, however, became upset with his colleagues, and later in the meeting apologized to Mr. Dodson for their behavior. But the two women were not apologetic, and didn’t like that Castleberry had apologized for them.<\/p>\n

Councilwoman Alexandra Scott told Oklahoma News 4<\/a> on camera,\u00a0“We are a captive audience, and we don’t have to listen to hate speech,” she asserted, adding, “We turned our chairs to him because it actually had some sort of hateful speech towards women. It didn\u2019t actually become a big issue until our fellow council member decided to scold us.”<\/p>\n

Readers may watch Dodson’s address to the council in the video below at 1:01:43<\/strong> and assess for themselves as to whether his comments can be construed as “hate speech” or “hateful speech towards women.”<\/p>\n